Tricky Plutonium Byproduct One Step Closer to Being Disposable
Well, what we all knew has been confirmed, refining plutonium to make nuclear weapons is pretty much a bad idea all around. But that's...
DuPont and Chemours Forced to Pay Nearly $1Bln for Toxic Teflon Dumping
As it turns out the manufacture of Teflon by DuPont was toxic, and poisoned an entire watershed in West Virginia. The ominously named C-8,...
Why Fracking and Cracking Create Risks to Human Life and so Much More
The fracking boom in the USA has received a lot of well founded criticism; it pollutes in just about every conceivable way, and has...
Nuclear Watchdog Offers Update On Mysterious Radiation In Europe
In a series of tweets released yesterday the ISRN, France's nuclear watchdog, reaffirmed that there was no risk to human health from the mysterious...
Mysterious Radiation Found All Over Northern Europe
France and Finland were the first to report that monitoring stations had collected small amounts of Iodine-131, which is radioactive and has a...
Scott Pruitt Set to Destroy The EPA In All But Name
Given the kind of president that Donald Trump is, the nomination of a man like Scott Pruitt to head the EPA is no surprise....
The Last Place on Earth Where You’d Expect Pollution is One of the Dirtiest
If you thought that the giant amoebas at the bottom of the Mariana Trench had it easy down there, enjoying immunity from the mess...
Beijing Mayor’s Bold Commitment to Limit Coal Use
In 2013 Beijing burned 22 million tons of coal.
Cai Qi is the mayor of Beijing and he has had enough, in a recent announcement...
Air Pollution Leads to Diabetes in Latino Children, Study Says
University of Southern California found a correlation between increased air pollution and Type 2 diabetes in Latino children.
For about 3.5 years, scientists tried to...
New Imaging Technology Could Lead To Low-Cost Methane Detection
It turns out that a single pixel can make a big difference when it comes to detecting gases that would otherwise go unnoticed...
