(Natural News) With Big Solar on the rise, experts fear that the world could be facing a solar panel waste problem. In 2019 alone, solar panel producers worldwide installed a whopping 114.9 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power, according to a recent report from the Paris-based organization International Energy Agency (IEA). This figure corresponds to a 12 percent increase […]

(Natural News) Wildfire smoke contains different trace gases, aerosols and compounds that can affect both human health and the environment. One such compound, called nitrous acid, is often underrepresented in atmospheric models despite its role in air pollution. But a new report is changing that. Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) and the Royal Belgian […]

(Natural News) Foods grown using organic farming methods are said to be healthier than foods grown using conventional means. One of the advantages that organic produce has over conventional produce is that they are free of harmful chemicals, which are used in conventional farming to nourish crops and control pests and weeds. Organic farming is also believed […]

(Natural News) Environmentalist Dr. Rosemary Mason recently wrote an open letter to shareholders of Bayer Crop Science and the company’s chairman, Werner Wenning, outlining some very serious concerns about the company’s dangerous practices. In her appeal to shareholders, she asks them to stop funding Bayer and to put human health and nature first. She explains […]

(Natural News) Soil and water contaminants like pesticides and heavy metals build up in living organisms. Known as bioaccumulation, this usually affects aquatic animals and plants used for food. The bioaccumulation of heavy metals in crops is a hot topic among scientists because of the threat they pose to human health. Besides having toxic effects, some […]

(Natural News) The first people in North America arrived more than a thousand years earlier than previously thought, experts have recently discovered. Proof of this, according to archaeologists, are the stone tools and other artifacts they unearthed at the Cooper’s Ferry site in Idaho. These artifacts are considered to be among the earliest evidence of […]

(Natural News) A man whom media reports claim was seen strolling off the highway into a field carrying a lighter and cardboard in order to start a fire has been identified as 36-year-old Jeffrey Alan Acord of Puyallup, an alleged “regular attendee” of anti-police demonstrations in Seattle. According to local news affiliate KIRO 7, passersby […]

(Natural News) A Portland man was arrested twice – first on Sunday evening and then again on Monday morning – for lighting several fires using Molotov cocktails along Interstate 205. The first incident began at 4:35 p.m. on Sunday, September 13, when the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) was called by Portland Fire & Rescue (PF & R) to […]

(Natural News) Facebook has announced that it will be removing all posts linking the wildfires sweeping through Oregon to arsonists after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) brushed off the reports as nothing more than baseless theories, according to a recent report from Big League Politics. Facebook’s Democrat-aligned policy communications manager Andy Stone made the announcement on Twitter […]

(Natural News) Drought conditions this year have been so bad that water coming from the Colorado River has dropped to below-average levels, jeopardizing the two largest man-made water reservoirs and threatening water shortage in several western states. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) conducted a simulation study calculating future water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead as water […]