(Elias Marat) In a historical first, a giant floating machine designed to clean up plastic from the ocean is collecting trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
environment
Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon
(Caitlin Johnstone) Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations worldwide against our civilization’s ecocidal march toward extinction, which makes me so happy to see. It’s really encouraging to see so many young people burning with love for their planet and a hunger to reverse the damage that has been done to our ecosystem by the refusal of previous generations to turn away from our path of devastation. This must continue if we are to survive as a species.
90 Per Cent of Plastic Waste Polluting Earth’s Oceans Comes From Asia and Africa
(Paul Joseph Watson) So why are westerners being lectured?
North America’s Bird Population Is Collapsing – Nearly 3 Billion Wiped Out Since 1970
(Michael Snyder) All around us, our world is literally in a state of collapse, but most people don’t seem to care. I spend much of my time writing about the inevitable collapse of our economic and financial systems, but they are only one part of the story. These days, millions upon millions of us are spending countless hours in this “virtual world” that we have created, and that is preventing many of us from understanding what is really going on in “the real world”.
2,000 New Fires Reported in Amazon Despite Recent Government Ban
(John Vibes) Last week, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, issued a 60-day ban on the use of fire for the purpose of clearing land in the Amazon. However, despite the order, nearly 2,000 new fires have been reported in the region since the restrictions were put into place.
Report Finds The Average Person Swallows The Plastic Equivalent Of A Credit Card Every Week
(Mayukh Saha) We consume plastic every day. And that quantity is growing as each day we let our planet get inundated in a plastic tide. The thick bed of plastic floating on the sea; the beasts and birds choking to death on plastic; it all used to be a part of the dining table conversation. And then suddenly we find that it is a part of our diet. We are surrounded by plastic and almost all of the food that the modern man consumes is either packed in plastic or has plastic mixed in it, in some form of the other.
Chevron Has Spilled 800,000 Gallons of Crude Oil and Water Into a California Canyon Since May
(Olivia Rosane) California officials ordered Chevron Friday “to take all measures” to stop a release that has spilled around 800,000 gallons of water and crude oil into a dry creek bed in Kern County, KQED reported.
Students Build Vacuum That Sucks Up Microplastics From Sand on the Beach
(Elias Marat) With the world’s oceans awash in plastic, beaches and islands across the globe are waging an uphill battle in the struggle to manage the plastic debris washing ashore—especially the millions of tiny microplastics that are nearly impossible to sift from the sand.
Farmers Are Using Flowers To Beat Back Pests Instead Of Chemicals
(Aimee Lutkin) A farm is its own ecosystem, but many conventional practices strip away the life cycle of all the creatures living in it by using pesticides. This makes sense, since crops can be decimated by the wrong kind of insect or other invader.
Scientists Found An Edible Mushroom That Eats Plastic, And It Could Clean Our Landfills
(Elias Marat) Whether we like it or not, our society has become completely reliant on plastic. From food preservation to water transportation, computer technology to healthcare and medicine, plastic can be found in nearly every facet of the human experience.