All posts tagged with environ
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-(Natural News) Scientists monitoring the ongoing the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China have found one surprising bit of silver lining. Satellite images from NASA revealed a significant drop in pollution over some of China’s biggest cities. According to NASA, there has been a significant decrease in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions in China due to the economic slowdown following the coronavirus outbreak. NO2 […]
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-(Natural News) Off the northeastern coast of the United States, researchers have found a gigantic freshwater aquifer hiding underneath the Atlantic ocean. An aquifer is an underground layer of water. This particular aquifer’s exact size is still unclear, but the researchers believe it has the potential to be the largest known aquifer to date. For comparison, the largest […]
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Saudi Arabia poisoned 10,000 camels with pesticides in effort to protect crops from swarming locusts
-(Natural News) Twitter is abuzz with disturbing reports out of Saudi Arabia about how government efforts to protect food crops against the ongoing locust invasion has led to the sickness of at least 10,000 camels. One Twitter user wrote that the pesticides Saudi Arabia is spraying on local agriculture is apparently so powerful that when […] -
-(Natural News) Plants such as trees form symbiotic relationships with bacteria and fungi in the soil, with the latter helping capture nutrients and minerals from the environment. In turn, the tree shares some of the food that it produces using the energy of the sun with these bacteria and fungi. Now, a study published in the journal Nature […]
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-(Natural News) The speed and intensity with which the Wuhan coronavirus – known as Covid-19 – raced across China was truly shocking. Nobody saw it coming, and when it struck, one of the most important economies in the world ground to a halt and massive cities were reduced to ghost towns. Millions were placed under […]
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-(Natural News) A new type of plastic pollution has made its way to the shores of Madeira in Portugal, a recent study revealed. A team of researchers at Portugal’s Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE) identified the pollution as “plasticrust” – patches of plastic that encrust rocks along the shore. Ignacio Gestoso, a marine ecologist at MARE and the lead author of […]
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-(Natural News) We are in the middle of an extinction phase. The animals in danger of extermination? Flying insects. This is according to entomology enthusiast Martin Sorg, president of the Amateur Entomology Society of Krefeld, who, over the last 37 years, collected 80 million insects from the German countryside. And while the Society’s collection is […]
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-(Natural News) The waters off the coast of Delaware and New Jersey aren’t just the perfect environment for crabs and other shellfish – they’re also fast becoming the perfect home for flesh-eating bacteria. This is according to a report made by researchers and medical and healthcare professionals at Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey, who […]
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-(Natural News) According to the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), approximately 2.5 million pounds of radioactive fracking waste have been dumped in a landfill in the city of Arlington in northern Oregon. This city is located right next to the Columbia River, which serves as the state’s border with Washington. The company responsible, Chemical Waste Management, received the […]
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-(Natural News) ‘That is all that can be said now’ An environmental group at Harvard University has promised an “escalation” to its tactics if its demands to the institution are not met, though a group member declined to elaborate on what that escalation would look like. (Article by Brianna Kraemer republished from TheCollegeFix.com) Last Thursday […]
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