Watch how trash pollutes over the years BY CHRISTINA SARICH POSTED ON AUGUST 25, 2015 Our oceans not only provide ample food for us when they are in peak condition, but they sustain life on this planet. In a visual representation experiment of the garbage patches around the world’s oceans, we can see just how…
What Happened to a Scientist Whose Findings Stood in the Way of Big Oil’s Plans for Arctic Drilling
The fate of Dr. Charles Monnett and the suppression of his work is a lesson in corporate strong-arming. In February 2011, Charles Monnett, an Arctic marine biologist who in 2006 published the first observations of a decline in the polar bear population of the Arctic due to melting sea ice, was interviewed by Eric May…
Drought-shamed Los Angeles County cuts supervisors’ car washes to one a week.
After a very public drought shaming, Los Angeles County employees may soon be driving dirtier cars. On Thursday, Supervisor Don Knabe called for a once-monthly limit that could affect all county departments. Officials also limited the Board of Supervisors to once-weekly car washings, effective immediately. Depending on how many vehicles are affected, this could amount…
China is having a hard time stopping pollution of its scarce water resources
BEIJING (Reuters) – China faces a “formidable task” to clean up its rivers and lakes and needs a fundamental change in attitudes to prioritize the environment over economic development at all cost, vice premier Wang Yang said. China published a water pollution prevention action plan in April, promising to improve water supplies in the world’s…
Ecovillage Survives as Haven for Deep Ecology in Mexico’s Central Mountains
On the outskirts of Mexico City, an experiment in alternative living has been unfolding for more than three decades. About an hour south of Mexico City, nestled in an extraordinary range of mountains called the Sierra del Tepozteco, whose fantastical rock formations studded with forest resemble those in ancient Chinese painted scrolls, an experiment in…
Harper’s Government Helping Canadian Mining Companies Plunder Africa’s Resources
Canadian policy in Africa can be summed up in nine words: Do what is good for Canadian-owned mining companies. Despite rhetoric about aid to the poorest people in the world, the Harper Conservatives have worked assiduously to ensure that Canadian corporations profit from Africa’s vast mineral resources. Even widespread criticism of their operations has failed…
Paving over rivers in cities could be causing a major pollution problem
There was once a little stream called Sunfish Creek on Manhattan. Named for the animals that swam there, it ran down from where Times Square is today, coursing across 7th Avenue, feeding a pond at 32nd Street and 4th Avenue before spilling into the East River. No trace of Sunfish Creek exists today. It was…