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Dec 14, 2015

The Microbes That Clean Up Contaminated Mine Sites

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One Yukon scientist is working on a homegrown solution to the heavy metals left behind by mining operations. 12/14/2015  - Pacific Standard ...

Florida kicks 9,000 chronically ill, disabled kids out of healthcare system

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An investigation by the Miami Herald has uncovered how the state gutted its Children's Medical Services, a program designed to help chro...
Dec 11, 2015

Mcr-1, e.coli: New superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics

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FOR years experts have warned there would come a day when antibiotics would cease being effective. And it seems that day could be sooner tha...

Wind Power History: Marcellus Jacobs Interview

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Marcellus Jacobs posing with a model of one of his durable, fault-tolerant wind power generators.  PHOTO: MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAFF On J...

World's 15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All The Cars In The World

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Jeremy Helms :  Says James Corbett, professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware: "Ship pollution affects the health ...
Dec 10, 2015

The House Just Voted to Ban Those Tiny Pieces of Plastic in Your Toothpaste | Mother Jones

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A sample of microbeads collected in Lake Erie   5 Gyres Institute Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted to phase out microb...

87% of Earth's population lives where the air is toxic

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TreeHugger Air pollution in China is getting a lot of press in recent times, especially with sad milestones like the  first-ever smog 'R...
Dec 9, 2015

President Signs Surface Transportation Bill into Law; Includes Permit Streamlining

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On Dec. 4, President Obama signed into law H.R. 22, the "Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act," which included the Sena...

"Nuclear Nightmare on the Great Lakes" Old, Historically troubled nuclear plant gets 20-year extension through 2037

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THE BLADE — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a 20-year extension to FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse nuclear plant on Tuesd...

Chemical flavorings found in e-cigarettes linked to lung disease | Harvard Gazette

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Diacetal, a flavoring chemical linked to cases of severe respiratory disease, was found in more than 75 percent of flavored electronic...
Dec 8, 2015

FREE Webinar tomorrow: Can energy use data reduce electricity costs and environmental impacts?

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I wanted to remind you that the University of Minnesota's Institute on Environment is hosting this seminar (also streaming online) TOMOR...

Please Support Removing Billions of Landfill Plastic - Sign Petition @change

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With Americans eating about 1.5 billion pounds of potato chips each year, think about how many chip bags that would be! When we, a group fou...

India Uses Plastic Waste In New Road Construction

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  Indian roads will have some plastic waste in them, as the country's Supreme Court has ordered such recycling of this waste stream The ...

Beijing issues first ever air pollution 'RED ALERT' with smog at 40x safe levels

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TreeHugger :  Airpocalypse China is going through a severe pollution crisis, kind of like what many  other countries went through decades ag...
Dec 7, 2015

Bye, bye, bananas

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In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world—a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America—all but disappeared...

"Water-in-salt" battery bodes well for greener, safer grid storage

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www.gizmag.com Scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Army Research Laboratory have used high concentrations of salt in water t...
Dec 6, 2015

US Coast May Be Under The Threat of Radiation from Fukushima

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MIDdayDaily: ​The 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan shook the entire globe, leaving thousands of people without homes and affecting hundreds of...
Dec 3, 2015

Anti-obesity group with ties to Coca-Cola disbanding; group has promoted drinking soda

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Anti-obesity group with ties to Coca-Cola disbanding; group has promoted drinking soda An anti-obesity group with ties to  Coca-Cola  is dis...

Brillouin Energy has 35 page third party verification report that hat the Brillouin Energy HHT™ prototype repeatedly produced lab-scale excess heat from LENR

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Brillouin Energy Corp., developer of renewable energy technologies capable of producing commercially useful amounts of thermal energy (heat)...