All posts tagged with environment

(Natural News) Environmental regulators in the state of Idaho have moved to shutter a gold mine that had been operating illegally after discovering that it was also dumping dangerous arsenic into the Boise River, the Idaho Statesman reported. In fact, the mine, called Atlanta Gold, is continuing to dump the dangerous heavy metal into a […]

(Natural News) A new study has revealed that the amount of terrain untouched by man has been on a downward spiral for the last 20-some-odd years. A team of researchers led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Australia’s University of Queensland has found that 10 percent of the earth’s vibrant wilderness has vanished over the past […]

(Natural News) (NaturalNews) Thousands of snow geese were burned and poisoned to death when they landed in a Montana mine tailings lake filled with acid and toxic metals. The 700-acre Berkeley Pit is a massive crevice left behind from nearly 30 years of copper mining. It filled up with water 900 feet deep, which then […]

(Natural News) For many years now environmental activists and others concerned about the health and well-being of our planet have pushed recycling as a means of preserving limited resources, and to prevent the buildup of waste and the need to continually expand landfills. Though recycling programs are now available and even required in many U.S. […]