by Beth Holmes | May 30, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Information, Sustainability
A 24 year sentence has been given to the man who started the Dolan fire in Big Sur in 2020, which destroyed 125,000 acres and killed 12 endangered condors. The Dolan fire began on an illegal cannabis farm in Monterey County on August 18, only a mile south of the Big...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information
Early warning systems for natural disasters are the topic of a new UN project, as extreme weather grows more common due to climate change. Early warning systems, like tornado sirens, air quality alerts, hurricane trackers, and fire towers, save thousands of lives. And...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 30, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Information
Water from Fukushima nuclear power plant will be released soon via a tunnel, which will take it well out to sea to avoid interfering with local fishing. The Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was heavily damaged during the 2011 earthquake that rocked Japan, has now...
by Admin | Aug 24, 2020 | Information, Resources, Sustainability
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture distributor, hasn’t let the death of its founder put it off its game. In a statement that would make the late Ingvar Kamprad proud, the company announced that in 2019, over 70 percent of all materials used to make its products were...
by Admin | Jul 20, 2020 | Conservation, Information
In recent years, the federal government has seemed quite hostile toward national parks and the agency that runs them, the National Park Service. In 2018, the White House eliminated protections for over 2 million acres of monument land in Utah, making them available...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
It sounds a little like the prologue to a disaster movie: a biotech company is planning to release 750 million mutant mosquitoes into the Florida Keys and it just got the green light from the government. But this isn’t Bites, the next summer B-movie. It’s a public...
