(Natural News) Astronomers from the University of Utrecht (UU) in the Netherlands looked at high resolution images of Mars gathered from orbiters and uncovered evidence that the red planet once had a river that flowed across its surface for more than 100,000 years. They believe that the rivers “continuously shifted their gullies, creating sandbanks, similar to the Rhine or […]

(Natural News) Picture this: A delicious bowl of shrimp, smothered in garlic butter, resting delicately on a bed of steaming white rice. Sound good? You bet! Now, picture that same shrimp packed full of cocaine, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic pesticides. You’re probably not quite as keen to dig into that tasty bowl of food anymore, […]

(Natural News) Some waterfalls didn’t need any help from an earthquake or a similarly powerful event to be born. They achieved their form after thousands of years of abrading the rocks that made up their riverbeds. A waterfall grabs the attention of anyone in its general vicinity. It marks the speed at which the landscape […]

(Natural News) Pharmaceutical companies have certainly made a massive impact on the well-being of human beings through the development of drugs that in some cases have literally meant the difference between life and death. Nonetheless, the legacy of pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly and others has been tainted by accusations of collusion and […]

(Natural News) When the topic of water pollution comes up, much of the conversation in recent times has focused on the amount of plastic in the oceans and seas. It’s a serious problem that certainly deserves the attention it’s getting, but there is another type of water pollution that also warrants grave concern: the toxic […]

(Natural News) There’s a worldwide health emergency currently in progress, and it has absolutely nothing to do with global warming, climate change, measles, or “anti-vaxxers.” It’s actually an emergency stemming from the existence of Big Pharma, whose prolific and persistent antibiotic drugs are now being detected at dangerously high levels in rivers, streams, and lakes […]

(Natural News) You may want to reconsider chowing down on the next fish you caught if you spotted plastic trash floating in the body of water. In a Phys.org article, U.K. researchers investigated two separate estuaries and found that one out of every three fish in both areas showed signs of having eaten toxic microplastics. […]

(Natural News) If you want to know what your local river will look like in the future, your best clue is to inspect its rocks. A joint Scottish-French study on waterfalls suggests that the type of rock on a riverbed have a much bigger impact on the evolution of rivers and waterfalls than the amount of […]

(Natural News) Those thick clumps of water hyacinth clogging our waterways might be useful for something, after all. A Thai study suggested that the invasive floating plant can be turned into biodegradable adsorption materials that can clean up oil spills better than polypropylene-based sorbents. The findings were published in the International Organization of Scientific Research. Polypropylene […]

(Natural News) A Global Research article drew attention to the quiet plans of a foreign corporation to set up insufficiently secure toxic tailing ponds for its copper mine sited upstream of the vital St. Louis River in Minnesota. According to the article, PolyMet Mining is planning to set up an “enormously dangerous [and] potentially catastrophic” lagoon that […]