by Beth Huffington | May 14, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
Seven percent of all renewable fresh water in the world is in Canada, twenty percent if you include sources considered non-renewable like glaciers and underground aquifers. For scale, Canada has about half of one percent of the world’s population. So there is...
by Admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Environmental hazards
The Piney Point industrial site in Manatee County, Florida, has never had a good track record for being eco-friendly. The first chemical plant there, Borden Chemical, had only been open for four years when it was discovered the company was dumping phosphate waste into...
by Admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Environmental hazards
In the first months of 2020, it felt like there was a new disaster every week. And 2021 appears to be playing the same tune. In the last week of February, patches of tar began washing up on beaches along more than 100 miles of Israel’s coastline. Immediately, the sale...
by Admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
On the morning of Sunday, February 7, a wall of water and mud slammed its way down the valley of India’s Dhauliganga River. Nothing stopped it—not houses, ridges, or dams. As of February 12, 2021, more than 200 people were still listed as missing, 38 had been...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2021 | Environmental hazards
Our lungs are amazing things. Impossibly delicate structures of tissue capable of carrying both air and blood, allowing vapor exchange between the two. In structure, they resemble the branches of an upside-down tree, with the uncountable alveoli, the points of...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards
One of the executive orders signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office was a large-scale call to prioritize the advancement of environmental justice. “It is, therefore, the policy of my Administration to listen to the science; to improve public health...
