Toxic Exposure
Drones Investigating Factory Farms
Will Potter is an activist and investigative journalist who has taken on the investigation of factory farms and slaughterhouses with the use of drones. As a critic of the “ag-gag” laws, Potter exposed the dichotomy of protecting the factory farms violently abu...
Grandma versus Environmental Protection Agency
Things aren't always as they seem. Take the following story for example.Lois Alt is a nice grandmother who once worked as an electrician in Virginia. In order to live closer to her family, she left her career to become a farmer. She and her husband investe...
A Green Horizon In Beijing
When you think of China what comes to mind? Due to an unfortunate reality, many people picture images of smog-filled skies and normal citizens wearing medical masks. However, China's notorious pollution may one day be a thing of the past. An environmental cons...
The $15 Billion Insect
What's a bee cost to America? More than $15 billion.Eighty percent of the United States' flowering crops are pollinated by honeybees, that makes up a third of all food we eat. Many nuts, fruits, and vegetables are heavily reliant on these little black and ...
Pennsylvania Polluted: Widespread Mutated Fish
Can you imagine the level of pollution needed in order to change the sex of a fish? Scientists are looking into the matter now, after having found fish in Pennsylvania that are intersex. And we're not talking about a lone case of a male fish that likes wearing...
The Easy Way Californians Are Making A Difference
"Your lawn may only be a small piece of land, but collectively, California lawns amount to many acres," says Brian Leahy, director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.By making sure that their landscapers are trained and licensed to ap...
The Story of How Facial Scrubs Are Disrupting The Great Lakes
All the convenience plastics have provided humans for the last seventy years does not come without a cost, as is now being evidenced in the Great Lakes. Something as seemingly innocuous as facial scrub is creating an ecological uproar.Many facial scrubs an...
Fukushima Fallout – Three Years Later
What prevents a nuclear reactor from becoming a nuclear bomb?Heat generated in a nuclear reactor is passed onto water or gas, which runs through turbines. These turbines then create electricity by passing through electrical generators. Around the core ...
Oil Company Tries To Sweep Poison Under America’s Rug
What started in April of 2010 turned into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Over an 87 day period, 200 million gallons of crude oil spilled out from the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The nation watched the leak intently, wa...
A new report may have you rush to buy a new crib
AUSTIN, Texas — In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of environmental engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin found that infants are exposed to high levels of chemical emissions from crib mattresses while they sle...