Posts Tagged ‘pollution’

• China sees record investments in renewable tech, will introduce carbon trading scheme

  The Chinese government recently declared that they are intending on placing a cap on their annual carbon emissions which will allow the individual provinces in China to regulate and plan their emissions more effectively. The hope is that this cap …

• Drinking water in Nigeria polluted with benzene at levels 900 times above the limit

  Families in Nisisioken Ogale, near a Nigerian National Petroleum Company pipeline, are drinking water from wells contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen, at levels over 900 times above UN World Health Organization guidelines. Along with many others, this community is …

• A Year Without Plastic: Interview with Taina from Plastic Manners Blog

  Photo credit: woodleywonderworks Taina, a Vancouver-based environmentalist and blogger, has taken on a challenge most of us would find daunting: living for a year without any plastics. She started in January, so May marks the fifth month into the project. …

• Time for Spring Cleaning!

  Photo credit: mckaysavage Regardless of whether or not you smoke, drink, eat right or exercise, environmental toxins are inescapable. It’s a sad truth that comes with living in our modern world. Just to name a few sources, toxins are found …

• Soil Contamination

  Soil covers most of the surface of the Earth’s land. It occurred after the erosion of rocks, due to strong winds, water, ice and due to the activity of living organisms. Soil is usually suitable for plants and small organisms …

• Pollutants from coal-based electricity generation kill 170,000 people annually

  The image shows the old Cahokia Power Plant in Sauget, IL which has been decommissioned for 31 years. Photo: Jay Dugger Top British climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS has warned that over 6 billion people will die this century …

• Are you sure you know all the reasons why shopping destroys the environment?

  Shopping can be a really refreshing habit that has been proved to make the purchasers feel happier. It also satisfies basic human needs. Thus, it would be a pie in the sky to say that shopping should be stopped. But …

• Pollution causes baldness

  Now we can count in baldness as another nasty side effect of pollution. According to a new research, by academics at the University of London, baldness has been linked with environmental factors, such as air pollution and smoking. “The scientists …