Tag: News
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New Year’s Resolution: Refuse Disposable Plastics
The Plastic Pollution Coalition launched a campaign this month aimed at reducing single use plastic in 2014. Through Resolve to Refuse, the Plastic Pollution Coalition is urging people to sign a pledge to follow the “Four Rs” of sustainable living—refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle—in the New Year. Disposable plastic items have become so commonplace that they are…
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China Has 8 Million Acres of Land Too Polluted to Grow Food
For as much news as China’s smog situation makes, another large problem has lagged in attention—the pollution of 8 million acres of farmland across the country. The land is far too polluted with heavy metals and chemicals that it can’t be used to grow food, Wang Shiyuan, deputy minister of China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday. The Ministry found…
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Fiery Oil Train Crash in Raging Shale Oil Boom State of North Dakota
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Fiery Oil Train Crash in Raging Shale Oil Boom State of North Dakota
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Extreme Weather Puts UK’s Hedgehog Population at Risk
By Kristina Chew The hedgehog population has fallen by 25 percent in the past decade in England due to intensive farming in the countryside and, in the suburbs, more and more cars and paved-over spaces. This year’s hedgehogs face another threat as many were born late, due to a wet summer and a warm October and may not have…