New Recycled Plastic Bottles Made from 100% Ocean Plastic Debris
Method and Envision Plastics proposes recycling of ocean plastic debris into new, eco-friendly recycled plastic materials that can make up our future disposable bottles.
We have...
Privatizing Oceans May Keep Them Safe
A panel of esteemed scientists from the World Bank's Global Partnership for Oceans has called for part privatization of oceans in an attempt to...
Water Pollution Assessed by Comparing to Pristine Forest Streams
In order to determine patterns in the natural change of water quality and nutrient concentrations in streams and rivers in forested areas, a recent...
Overweight People Using More Energy to Live, Study Reveals
The next time you watch your belly increasing in size, please also think that you'll need more resources to keep it, and hence more...
North Carolina Legislation Allows Coal Power Pollution
Coal power plants, aside from generating electricity and the worst carbon dioxide emissions of any power plant.
As if coal power wasn’t dirty enough, from...
California’s Nitrous Oxide and Methane Levels Equal to that of CO2
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have determined initial estimates for California’s nitrous oxide levels maybe have been incorrect. The levels may...
Could Fracking Actually Be Good for Climate Change?
I’m having a hard time seeing how this is possible, but could fracking for natural gas actually be good for climate change?
According to all...
Clean Coal Gives Lungs Cancer in Appalachia
Researchers in West Virginia University recently published an article in the journal Environmental Science and Technology that tied lung cancer to coal dust released...
Fairtrade Gold From Mines In Africa Saves Millions of Lives and Reduces Mercury Pollution
Gold mining in many regions of Africa is one of the leading industries on the continent, with nearly 99% of all gold output being...
Bio-plastics Made of Fructose Disappear as We Please
The solution to plastic pollution might just have been discovered. A team of US scientists developed a material out of fructose that functions just...
