Tag: Pollution - Page 15
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Chemical-Laden Dolphins Show Us Where It's Unsafe to Fish
We might be able to take a cue from whales and dolphins on where to hang "Do Not Fish" signs. While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those
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Are Humans To Blame For Mass Whale Strandings?
The Guardian has a good article questioning how humans are to blame for mass whale strandings. It's a topic we discuss often on TreeHugger -- especially recently as scientists witness more frequent strandings, which has them, and us, deeply concerned.
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Fracking As A Fractured Relationship With Ourselves
Fracking, an abbreviation for hydraulic fracturing. A method used to extract natural gas from shale involving horizontal drilling, high pressures, lots of waters, lots of chemicals, resulting in toxic waste.
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The Harrowing Ocean Crossing of a Boat Made of Trash, as Chronicled in Plastiki (Slideshow)
Constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic water bottles, Plastiki proved it was more than a philosophical exercise when it completed an 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific.
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The Harrowing Ocean Crossing of a Boat Made of Trash, as Chronicled in Plastiki
Constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic water bottles, Plastiki proved it was more than a philosophical exercise when it completed an 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific. Now, a new book, Plastiki: Across the Pacific on Plastic: An Adventure to Save
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EPA Puts Off Regulating Industrial Boiler Emissions
Two from the annals of delusion or semi-delusion.
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ConocoPhillips Withdraws From Controversial Amazon Oil Project
At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project
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A 22 Year Rids Paris of Cigarette Butts By Hand, Makes a Dress, and Saves the Rainforest
Stereotypes about Parisians are well known: the snobbery, the love of stinky cheese, the baguette under the arm and the
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Hydraulic Fracturing Causing 'Fraccidents' All Across United States
Lots of fracking news in the past couple of days (and a cool event in New York on Monday which it'd be really good if you went to, nudge, nudge). Add this one to the pile of evidence that it's probably a good time to reassess
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$3.94 A Gallon -- Where Is All the Money Going?
As gas prices climb, do you think at all about where the money goes? There's some talk in Washington right now about what's driving prices up, and there's little doubt that much of it is going straight to company
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An Aesthetic Case Against Disposables: 8 Timeless Objects Vs. Their Tacky Single-Use Alternatives (Slideshow)
After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first-hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous
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An Aesthetic Case Against Disposables: 8 Timeless Objects Vs. Their Tacky Single-Use Alternatives
After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first-hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous consumption of dispos
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Antibodies Used To Sense Marine Pollution, Oil Spills
We're used to antibodies searching for germs and viruses within our own bodies, and now that same concept is put to use for marine pollution. Researchers at Virginia Institute of Marine Science have developed antibodies
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TransCanada Pipeline Spills 21,000 Gallons of Oil in North Dakota
TransCanada has said its Keystone I pipeline spilled 500 barrels (21,000 gallons) of oil in North Dakota on Saturday morning. Friends of the Earth says the incident is the 12th spill from the Keystone I pipeline, which is
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How to Tear Down a Nuclear Power Plant (Pics)
Curious about how a nuclear power plant is taken apart? Scientific American has a slideshow showing just what happens when a plant has a meltdown or reaches the end of its useful life.
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Giant Squid Are Killed By Ocean Noise Pollution, Study Shows
We know that marine noise pollution from Navy ships and oil exploration vessels cause disorientation and death for whales and other marine species. But for the first time, scientists have proof that the spat of giant squid deaths
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Birds With Orange and Brown Plummage More Sensitive to Chernobyl Radiation
On April 26, 1986, reactor four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic power increase that led to an explosion of its core and the dispersal of radioactive fallout over 100,000 square
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Green Tribunal in India Now Charging Fee for Victims--Not Polluters
Well, the National Green Tribunal created last year seemed like a good idea, but here's an interesting twist: the environment ministry has just ordered victims seeking compensation or damages from a polluting industry
