by faster | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: October 16, 2020 SNIP: Japan is to release treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, media reports say. It follows years of debate over how to dispose of the liquid, which includes water used to cool the power...
by faster | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE October 15, 2020 SNIP: Biodegradable glitter causes the same ecological damage to rivers and lakes as the ordinary product, according to the first study of its kind on the impact of the microplastic on the environment. Tests on ordinary...
by faster | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Moscow Times DATE: October 8, 2020 SNIP: Nearly all seafloor-dwelling life in pollution-hit waters off Russia’s Pacific coast in the Kamchatka region has been wiped out in an unexplained mass death of marine animals, scientists told the region’s governor...
by faster | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: CNN DATE: September 28, 2020 SNIP: When Haji Muhammad Abdus Salam looks across the trash-filled river near his home in one of Dhaka’s major garment manufacturing districts, he remembers a time before the factories moved in. “When I was young there...
by faster | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: September 24, 2020 SNIP: In 2014, residents of Horsham Township, near Philadelphia, learned that their water had been contaminated with potentially toxic chemicals linked to an array of health problems, including learning delays in children...