(Natural News) New research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology reveals that in 2020 alone, some 74 metric tons of microplastics – that is, the plastic particulates released from waste into the environment – fell on the city of Auckland in New Zealand via rainfall. The first peer-reviewed study of its kind to […]

(Natural News) President Joe Biden’s administration approved an emergency declaration over a water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, ordering federal assistance to supplement state response on Tuesday, August 30. The White House statement said emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding for 90 days. The administration also authorized the Department […]

(Natural News) As part of a new water conservation plan, the city of Los Angeles and numerous other water districts throughout Southern California are proposing recycling sewer water back through people’s taps. That recycled water would be filtered, of course. But “direct potable reuse,” as they are calling it, is still essentially biosludge water that […]

(Natural News) Five counties in Texas were designated as natural disaster areas as drought ravaged the Lone Star State. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, five counties – Austin, Colorado, Harris, Lavaca and Fort Bend – were designated as natural disaster areas. The counties suffered from severe to exceptional drought, it added. The Fort Boone […]

(Natural News) Areas of Texas that have been suffering from a devastating drought finally got some relief this week in the form of much-needed rain, and now farmers are hopeful that they may be able to turn things around on the field as a result. However, more rain is needed to save crops and cattle. […]

(Natural News) California’s three-year drought appears to be growing more severe as the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides 30 percent of the state’s water supply, is currently at one of its lowest levels in over seven decades. Automatic sensors spread across the massive mountain range show that snowpack levels are about 39 percent of normal levels. […]

(Natural News) Large swaths of the United States are still dry as a bone due to record-breaking drought conditions, and America’s crops and cattle are suffering, as reported by Strange Sounds. Almost the entire West Coast and maybe a third of the Midwest is seeing severe or worse drought conditions. This is affecting wheat, barley […]

(Natural News) Large swaths of Western Europe have been left decimated following torrential rains that flooded towns and cities across Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands over the past several days. Sizeable stretches of rail lines are now completely unusable or destroyed, thanks to the flooding, which experts say could take months or even years to […]

(Natural News) Shocking new footage out of Zhengzhou, China, shows a trainload of stranded passengers waiting for help as devastating floodwaters rise within the train car. A government-run Chinese paper posted the below video to its Twitter account showing people patiently waiting in chest-deep murky water for rescue as floodwaters apparently rise all around them: […]

(Natural News) Much of the Western United States is currently under severe “megadrought” conditions that some speculate could turn into the next dust bowl. Lack of precipitation is causing farmers to be cut off from irrigation supplies, which means no water for crops and eventually no food in the grocery store – not to mention […]