Volkswagen Caught Testing Diesel Exhaust on Monkeys

June 20, 2018 Natural Health News

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze After horrible press, fines, and imprisonments, Volkswagen once again found itself in the middle of a controversy when it was revealed that the company was testing its product on animals. Despite having fudged the numbers on its pollution standards software to appear more compliant, Volkswagen had been using macaque monkeys to test […]

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Microplastics May Heat Marine Turtle Nests and Produce More Females

June 6, 2018 Environment

By Mariana Fuentes, Florida State University Have you ever considered that small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters long, or smaller than a pencil eraser head, called microplastics, can affect large marine vertebrates like sea turtles? My research team first discovered this disturbing fact when we started to quantify the amount and type of […]

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As U.S. Opioid Epidemic Skyrockets, Sea Life Now Testing Positive for Big Pharma’s Oxycodone

May 29, 2018 Big Pharma,Environment

By Jack Burns Researching aquatic life has long been used as a barometer for evaluating pollution levels, and according to a recently published study, opioids are now showing up in the bays in and around Seattle’s Puget Sound—serving as yet another reminder that the United States’ opioid crisis has gotten completely out of control. Scientists at […]

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Your Shampoo, Hair Spray And Skin Lotion May Be Polluting The Air

May 12, 2018 Environment

By Matthew Coggon, University of Colorado Millions of Americans apply personal care products every morning before heading to work or school. But these products don’t stick to our bodies permanently. Over the course of the day, compounds in deodorants, lotions, hair gels and perfumes evaporate from our skin and eventually make their way outdoors. Now […]

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A Giant Crowdfunded Machine Is About to Begin Cleaning up the Pacific Garbage Patch

April 24, 2018 Environment

By Carey Wedler Scientists with the Ocean Cleanup Company are gearing up to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an expanse of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that contains as many as 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and spans 617,763 square miles. Using a device designed by 23-year-old inventor Boyan Slat, who dropped out of an aerospace engineering […]

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Why Are Food, Water And Air—Life’s Essentials—Deliberately Poisoned? Part 3: Air

March 30, 2018 Environment

By Catherine J. Frompovich What is AIR and how do we define it? Air can be defined as the gaseous substance that inflates balloons and automobile tires. Air is composed of gases—mainly oxygen and nitrogen—we breathe in the environment (plus pollutants). Air is a life essential element! Air is comparable to an ‘ocean’, which living, […]

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Entrepreneurs Invent City Bench that Absorbs More Air Pollution Than a Small Forest

March 25, 2018 Environment

By Matt Agorist With great technological advances—like the industrial revolution and the subsequent oil boom—came a great impact on the environment. As more industries began to flourish, increasing the quality of life for billions of people around the world, the quality of air began to suffer. As governments across the world began advocating for solutions […]

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The Amount of Plastic in Oceans Will Triple within Seven Years, Says Major Report

March 22, 2018 Environment,Video

By Vic Bishop A recent viral video of a diver swimming through a sea of plastic is a stark reminder of what we are doing to the world’s oceans. We’ve been reporting on this issue since 2012, watching the development of a massive gyre of plastic forming in the Pacific Ocean, devastating wildlife in the […]

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What Are We Breathing?

March 21, 2018 Environment

12By Catherine J. Frompovich Does it seem as if it’s getting a little harder to breathe? You may not be mistaken. That may not be just a figment of your imagination, especially with all the varied and unsuspected sources of air pollution resulting especially from the proliferation of chemical companies tripping over themselves to introduce […]

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Tiny Graphene Membrane Creates “Supercharged Water Purification” In One Simple Step

February 19, 2018 Environment

By Kevin Samson Fresh water supplies continue to be assaulted on multiple fronts. Front page news at the moment is the unfolding disaster in Cape Town, South Africa which could be completely without water by June. According to some, this is as much the result of politics as it is the result of a three-year […]

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Salmon Face Double Whammy From Toxic Stormwater

February 13, 2018 Environment,Video

By Eric Sorensen, WSU News WSU researchers have found that salmon face a double whammy when they swim in the stormwater runoff of urban roadways. First, as scientists learned a couple years ago, toxic pollution in the water can kill them. WSU researchers have now determined that fish that survive polluted stormwater are still at […]

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Aftermath of the Mount Polley, British Columbia Tailings Lagoon Dam Failure

February 13, 2018 Environment

By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze A Partial Timeline of the Aftermath of the Mount Polley, British Columbia Tailings Lagoon Dam Failure of August 4. 2014 Before reading the timeline of the aftermath of the Mt Polley disaster, please go to the following site where there are a number of photos of the […]

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Scientists Trigger Artificial Photosynthesis, Cleans Air and Produces Energy

February 8, 2018 Environment

By Natural Blaze For those who lay awake at night terrified by so-called climate change, please know that a number of innovations have surfaced to head environmental issues off at the pass. What if there were a way to collect and clean the air and produce clean energy at the same time? (On the other hand, […]

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Plastic Microbeads Banned in the U.K. but Your Products May Still Have Them

January 16, 2018 Environment,Natural Health News,Video

By Anna Hunt It can be quite surprising to find out that your facial scrub, body wash or toothpaste contain thousands of tiny plastic microbeads. What’s even more appalling is the fact that thousands of tons of these microbeads end up in the ocean every year. Because of this staggering impact on our waterways and […]

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Shocking Study Shows 170 MILLION Americans Drinking Radioactive Water and Gov’t is Hiding It

January 13, 2018 Environment

By Matt Agorist A damning report from the Environmental Working Group has just revealed that drinking water for more than 170 million Americans in all 50 states contains radioactive elements that are shown to cause cancer. Not only does the report expose the deadly levels of radiation but it also shows that officials have been actively covering […]

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The Yaquis People Forcefully Halted a Pipeline’s Construction: “Standing Rock of Mexico”

January 9, 2018 Environment,Video

By Markab Algedi, Natural Blaze In Loma de Bacum, a town in Northwest Mexico near the border of Arizona, an indigenous tribe called the Yaqui are challenging the California founded, multi-billion dollar corporation Sempra Energy and their border crossing pipeline in the region. The pipeline’s opposition is making headlines, being referred to as the “Standing Rock” […]

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Can Road Salt And Other Pollutants Disrupt Our Circadian Rhythms?

January 4, 2018 Environment,Video

By Jennifer Marie Hurley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Every winter, local governments across the United States apply millions of tons of road salt to keep streets navigable during snow and ice storms. Runoff from melting snow carries road salt into streams and lakes, and causes many bodies of water to have extraordinarily high salinity. At Rensselaer […]

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Damning Report: Pentagon Actively Poisoning Millions of American Water Supplies

January 1, 2018 Environment

By Rachel Blevins The Pentagon has recklessly contaminated more than 40,000 sites across the United States, exposing hundreds of thousands of Americans to deadly chemicals. As the United States continues to increase the budget of the largest military in the world, Americans are paying a price that is far greater than their tax dollars—a recent study […]

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Electromagnetic Pollution: Why Aren’t Consumers Made Aware Of It?

December 27, 2017 Environment,Natural Living

By Catherine J. Frompovich Pollution!  It’s a trendy but gloomy word designating something most people try to avoid contributing to, but not many folks realize what causes it and how it affects them. Humans and technology are the primary contributors to ALL pollution, either inadvertently or deliberately.  Manufacturing processes; obtaining raw materials and resources (mining […]

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Microplastics on Beaches Now Recorded at Insane Levels

October 18, 2017 Environment

By Jason Erickson More attention is finally being given to determining the ill effects that microplastics (microbeads) are having on human health and the environment. Previous concerns have been raised in everything from toothpaste to beer to the wider ecosystem where it was found to threaten juvenile fish that were becoming addicted to them. Perhaps […]

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