All posts tagged with environmental damage

(Natural News) People use plastic for a variety of reasons, which has given way to the production of different kinds of the material. However, one of the unintended consequences of such an expansion is that of improper disposal. Experts have developed recycling methods to reduce plastic waste, in an effort to mitigate environmental damage. Now […]

(Natural News) Central California’s Oroville Dam, which encountered catastrophic failure last year that led to the erosion of 1.7 million cubic yards of material, is now the subject of a multi-billion dollar lawsuit. As of this time’s writing, Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey has filed a suit against the Department of Water Resources (DWR) […]

(Natural News) The hard Left loves its environmental issues but it also loves open borders and unlimited immigration — legal or otherwise (kind of like the RINOs in Washington, D.C., and their corporate donor masters). So it will be interesting to see how many of them respond to the findings of a new lawsuit that […]

(Natural News) A new analysis warned that the Pennsylvania gas industry is under-reporting the extent of their methane emissions. They’re belching as much as twice the amount of air pollution they officially report to the state, reported a StateImpact news article. The warning comes from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), whose researchers analyzed 16 peer-reviewed studies for […]

(Natural News) The massive coral bleaching in the coast of Western Australia in 2016 is the most severe bleaching event in recorded history, a recent study reports. Researchers from The University of Western Australia (UWA), ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and Western Australian Marine Science Institution studied and measured how the harrowing event impacted the […]

(Natural News) In less than a generation, we have managed to successfully pollute our planet by discarding more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics; 6.3 billion tons of which has become waste. This was the condemning conclusion made in a new study published in Science Advances. Researchers from the University of Georgia studied data […]

(Natural News) A meta-analysis published in the Microchemical Journal revealed that commonly used antibiotics make their way to the environment, which in turn may negatively impact beneficial microbes found in the ecosystem. According to the researchers, people metabolize only a small portion of antibiotics that they take; the rest of the drugs are excreted, and are known […]

(Natural News) The U.S. Navy is accelerating its efforts to be ready for any threat to national security, and has announced that large-scale live war exercises will take place along the entire east coast of the United States in 2018. The Navy has labeled the testing “Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing Phase III.” EcoRI News […]

(Natural News) The population of butterflies in the UK has sharply dwindled, conservationists have revealed. According to the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, 40 of the 57 assessed species witnessed significant declines in 2016, making it the fourth worst year on record for butterflies. The drop occurred in spite of the dry and warm summer, reports […]

(Natural News) Most Americans understand that in order to continue maintaining the world’s leading economy, corporations have to be regulated as lightly as possible and allowed to make a profit. But most also understand that there should be limits to both; regulations cannot be so light as to allow corporations to harm people or the […]