All posts tagged with pollutants

(Natural News) It is well-known that plastics are among the leading causes of pollution worldwide. Whether it be through water, land, or air, plastics can negatively affect people in all sorts of ways everywhere. Now a team of international scientists have put together a comprehensive report that goes deep into the matter, and shows exactly […]

(Natural News) Those fabulous casinos look inviting and tempting, especially after a long day when all you want is to unwind and reward yourself at the card tables. But do you know that aside from stoking gambling addictions, the casino is also a hotbed of thirdhand tobacco smoke? Thirdhand smoke, while still a new concept, […]

(Natural News) In the winter of 2015, members of Jennifer McIntyre’s team drove all the way up to Seattle to take samples of stormwater by the Highway 520 bridge across Lake Washington. McIntyre, a researcher from Washington State University, made sure that they had samples whenever it rained during the eight-week period. McIntyre’s team made 25 […]

(Natural News) Yeast may hold potential as a safe and cost-effective material for cleaning up large volumes of acidic radioactive liquid wastes, experts reported in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. The scientists explained that yeast contains strong properties that could withstand radiation emitted from radioactive sites, which continue to contaminate the environment following the end of the Cold War era. […]

(Natural News) Scientists believe corals have developed a taste for plastic adrift the oceans, which means corals are ingesting the chemical additives within these plastics, as reported in a Daily Mail article. The researchers at Duke University discovered the concerning situation after the corals in their experiments ate all types of plastics, “but preferred unfouled microplastics by […]

(Natural News) Human-induced pollution has greatly affected the Greenland ice sheet and the whole Arctic region over the last few decades. Back in the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built Camp Century, an army base located just below the surface of the ice sheet. The cavernous army base, big enough to accommodate up to […]

(Natural News) Allowing farmers to use raw sewage sludge or biosolids from wastewater treatment plants as a fertilizer is one of the greatest environmental crimes many people have never heard of, according to Mike Adams, an award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist, and science lab director known as the “Health Ranger” and founder and editor of […]