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...
by Admin | May 1, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
Delhi, the second most populated city in the world, is No. 1 in a list no one wants to top: The most polluted city in the world. With 26.5 million inhabitants as of 2016 and expected to be at 40 million in 2030, the city has more than three times the population of...
by Admin | Mar 30, 2020 | Conservation, Information
The anti-electric vehicle crowd has always been down on the energy-saving benefits of stepping away from internal combustion engines. Their claim is that electric vehicles (EVs) are more expensive in terms of energy overall when you factor in manufacturing,...
