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04/26/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

The Daily Caller’s environmental stupidity on parade: Chop down more trees, use plastic bags and “eat GMOs”

When you read the recent Earth Day article by Michael Bastasch on The Daily Caller, the first thing you might be tempted to do is check the date to see if it was written on April 1. The advice is so incredibly bad and contrary to everything we know about the environment that it’s hard […]

08/06/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Humans have already manufactured 8.3 billion tons of plastic with no end in sight… landfill galore

In less than a generation, we have managed to successfully pollute our planet by discarding more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics; 6.3 billion tons of which has become waste. This was the condemning conclusion made in a new study published in Science Advances. Researchers from the University of Georgia studied data on the […]

07/06/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Simply washing your clothes pollutes the world with microplastics, so stop buying synthetic fibers

Innocently using a washing machine could inadvertently damage the environment. Researchers have now concluded that washing cycles, regardless of number or length, released vast amounts of microplastics from fabrics, which inevitably entered the environment through wastewater. The results were published in Environmental Science and Technology and reflected the first-ever meticulous and systematic investigation on how […]

06/16/2017 / By Russel Davis

Microplastic pollution is the REAL threat to our oceans, warn scientists

Marine experts from the California State University recently pointed out that microplastic pollution has steadily become a major threat to the world’s oceans. According to the experts, microplastics are especially problematic as they are more challenging to manage due to their microscopic size. Microplastics, which measure less than five millimeters, are degraded plastic fibers that end up in […]

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