(Natural News) Have you noticed that there have been a lot of stories about “unexplained creatures” in the news lately?  Normally I don’t pay much attention to stories like that, but today my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to do some digging.  What I found was that stories about mystery creatures […]

(Natural News) The amount of plastic waste worldwide is expected to almost triple over the next four decades if radical action is not taken to control the level of pollution. This was the warning issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a new report released Friday, June 3. According to the […]

(Natural News) Jonathan Miltimore of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) believes the current recycling process is not doing any good for the environment. He said abandoning the way that recycling is being done now will more likely benefit people and the environment. The recycling craze came from a single incident in 1987, in which a […]

(Natural News) An opportunity to generate more much-needed drinking water in the state of California is gone after the California Coastal Commission (CCC) voted unanimously to reject the project. Gov. Gavin Newsom supported the $1.4 billion project, which would have provided a partial solution for the state’s ongoing water shortage and drought problems. It was […]

(Natural News) Scientists have known long ago that sunscreens negatively impact coral reefs, but they weren’t sure why or how – until now. A group of environmental chemists and biologists finally came up with an explanation for why common chemicals like oxybenzone are causing problems for ocean life. They found that corals absorb oxybenzone and convert […]

(Natural News) Microplastics have been found to pick up pollution in their travels. Meaning, they pose an even greater threat to human health than previously thought. In the ocean, for instance, toxic compounds can hitch a ride on plastic and make it 10 times more toxic than it would normally be, according to new research from Tel Aviv […]

(Natural News) Microplastics can pick up pollution in their travels and pose an even greater threat to human health, according to a new study. (Article by Krystal Vasquez republished from EHN.org) In the ocean, for example, toxic compounds can hitch a ride on plastic and make the material 10 times more toxic than it would normally be, […]

(Natural News) An environmental group in Australia claimed that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic also caused a pandemic of plastic waste, foremost among them the surgical face masks. Sydney-based organization Clean Up Australia (CUA) put forward this claim in time for the launch of its citizen science project on March 6. The endeavor aims to […]

(Natural News) A four-story rogue wave that turned up in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada in 2020 is the most extreme example of such phenomenon ever reported, according to scientists who described it as a “once in a millennium” incident. Rogue waves, also called freak or killer waves, are large waves that occur […]

(Natural News) Several beaches in the Los Angeles and Orange counties in California were closed due to sewage spills off the Dominguez Channel. County officials said the spillage of about two to four million gallons of untreated waste into the channel was caused by the failure of a main sewer line in the city of Carson. According […]