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...
by Admin | May 22, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
In Japan, where Asian giant hornets are native pests, an average of 30-50 people a year die by them, mostly by having the misfortune to stumble, literally, into one of their massive buried hives. Native to temperate and tropical parts of East and Southern Asia, from...
by Admin | May 15, 2020 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Information
If you’ve kept even half an eye on eco-aware headlines in the past twenty years, you’ve seen the word microplastics. What it means is simple: any piece of waste plastic less than 5mm in size, or in other words, smaller than a ladybug or a baby aspirin, is considered a...
