‘Pollution’ Category
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Poland accused of creating ‘climate of fear’ for environmental campaigners
0October 30, 2012 by Dan
Polish environmentalists say that they are operating in a ‘climate of fear’ involving harassment by the country’s security police, and denunciations from government ministers for “working against the public interests of the state”. Earlier this month, Treasury Minister Nikołaj Budzanowski used that phrase to drub a registered environmental charity, Client Earth, … keep reading
Category Climate Change, Energy, Health, Politics, Pollution, Social Justice, World | Tags: Campaign, Fear, Protest
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Google Street View Lets You See the Sights of Midway Atoll
0October 24, 2012 by Dan
Google Streetview seems to be conquering the globe rather quickly and not just cities and easily accessible places. Places like the Amazon, the Great Barrier Reef, and now, the remote Midway Atoll can all be explored from your computer. The Atoll is one of only 28 places designated as both … keep reading
Category Pollution, Science, Technology, Waste, Water, World | Tags: Conservation, Endangered Species, Google
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Toxic tanneries drive Bangladesh leather exports
0October 10, 2012 by Dan
Luxury leather goods sold across the world are produced in a slum area of Bangladesh’s capital where workers, including children, are exposed to hazardous chemicals and often injured in horrific accidents, according to a study released. None of the tanneries packed cheek by jowl into Dhaka’s Hazaribagh neighborhood treat their … keep reading
Category Health, Pollution, Social Justice, Waste, Water, World | Tags: Child Labor, Human Rights, Leather, Pollution, Work Conditions
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Pollution-Cleaning Clothing Created With Special Laundry Detergent
1October 8, 2012 by Dan
Pollution-cleaning clothing apparently isn’t too far off from being a reality. Simply by walking around in your own favorite jeans and t-shirt, you could help scrub the air of nitrogen oxides. The secret is in the detergent. Researchers at the University of Sheffield are developing an additive for laundry detergents … keep reading
Category Pollution, Science, World | Tags: Clothing, Pollution
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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you
0October 8, 2012 by Dan
Welcome to beautiful Lake Karachay, a Russian lake so tainted by nearby nuclear facilities that it’s considered the most polluted place on the planet. In 1990, just standing on the shore for an hour would give you a radiation dose of 600 roentgen, more than enough to kill you. On … keep reading
Category Health, Pollution, Social Justice, Waste, Water, World | Tags: Death, Nuclear, Pollution, Radioactive, Water
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Manufacturers of pink slime sue News Company for reporting on pink slime
0September 18, 2012 by Dan
South Dakota’s evocatively named Beef Products Inc., incorporated makers of beef products, is suing ABC News for economic damage wrought by the network’s use of the term “pink slime” to describe the slimy, pink filler material that BPI once proudly ginned up. Earlier this year, BPI announced that it was … keep reading
Category Farming, Food, Pollution, Social Justice, Waste | Tags: Lawsuit, Meat, Pink Slime
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Coffee Scraps at Starbucks Reused as Plastics and Consumer Products
0August 22, 2012 by Dan
If there is any place that produces massive amounts of used coffee grounds, it is the thousands of coffee factories around the world, Starbucks. One would think that they would just throw the used grounds into the trash, but the people at Starbucks thought better of it. They were sitting … keep reading
Category Food, Pollution, Recycle, Science, Waste | Tags: Biofuel, Coffee, Recycle, Starbuck's, Waste
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Cleaning Product Company Uses Ocean Trash For Packaging
0August 6, 2012 by Dan
Here’s a nifty, sustainable idea: take plastic accumulating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and use it as packaging. Story continues.
Category Pollution, Recycle, Water | Tags: Cleaning Product, Garbage Patch, Recycling, Trash
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America’s ‘Most Polluted’ Lake Finally Comes Clean
0August 2, 2012 by Dan
Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, N.Y., has often been called the most polluted lake in America. It was hammered by a one-two punch: raw and partially treated sewage from the city and its suburbs, and a century’s worth of industrial dumping. But now the final stage in a $1 billion cleanup … keep reading
Category Pollution, Recreation, Water | Tags: Cleanup, New York, Pollution, Water
