Drought-hit Panama Canal must ‘adapt or die’ as water levels drop.
"We have to find other solutions to remain a relevant route for international trade. If we don't adapt, we are going to die."
Alligators exposed to ‘forever chemicals’ show autoimmune impacts: study
BY SHARON UDASIN – Alligators exposed to “forever chemicals” in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River may be experiencing adverse clinical and autoimmune effects, a new study has found. In addition to showing genetic indicators for immune system impacts, the animals had many unhealed or infected lesions, according to the study, published on Thursday in Frontiers in Toxicology. “Alligators
Modern pesticides damage the brain of bees so they can’t move in a straight line.
by Frontiers The challenge to let people walk back and forth in a straight line isn’t just used by police to test if drivers are intoxicated: it’s also used by neurologists to diagnose neurological disorders like ataxia, where parts of the brain that coordinate movement are impaired. Now, researchers use an insect version of this challenge
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES OFFICIALLY REDLISTED AS ENDANGERED and what you can do to help
August 15, 2022 by GMO/Toxin Free USA Staff On July 22, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added the migratory monarch butterfly to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinction. Known for its spectacular annual journey of up to 3,000 miles across the Americas,
Senate passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent!
Senate passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent (msn.com)
Dead white man’s clothes
Australia, with clothing retail sales in 2020 of about $22 billion, may not have the economic scale of the US or the UK, where combined the industry turned over $468 billion in the same period. But on a per capita basis, Australia is the highest consumer of textiles anywhere in the world outside of the US.
Sri Lanka’s burning cargo ship on track to become its ‘worst environmental disaster’
By Helen Regan and Sophie Jeong, CNN (CNN)A huge cleanup operation was underway for a sixth day in Sri Lanka Tuesday after a container ship laden with chemicals caught fire 12 days ago, inundating the country’s western coastline with microplastic pollution and potentially hazardous waste.Sri Lankan environmentalists said it is one of the worst ecological
New study finds glyphosate-related alterations in gut microbiome
Pursuing truth and transparency for public health by Carey Gillam A new animal study by a group of European researchers has found that low levels of the weed killing chemical glyphosate and the glyphosate-based Roundup product can alter the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that may be linked to adverse health outcomes. The
Stop Throwing Out Your Used Tea Bags
Apartment Therapy Shifrah Combiths They’re surprising useful. Here are 12 things they can do post-brew. Photo by Image credit: Stephanie Russo It feels so good to be able to do something with the things we’d normally discard. Coffee grounds as rose fertilizer and clementine peels saved for DIY candles come to mind, not to mention
“Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures
The detection of this radioactive relic of nuclear weapons tests in a remote environment shows humanity’s far-reaching environmental impact. Scientific American Adam Levy Read when you’ve got time to spare. Credit: Daiju Azuma Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.5). The Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific Ocean between Japan and Papua New Guinea, plunges nearly seven miles