Residents in US city fear pollution spike after China bans waste imports
Beijing’s move to crack down on waste imports may be part of the ongoing trade war with Washington, RT has been told. Ruptly met with...
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California town conserves too much water, dumps 500k gallons amid drought
The mayor of Poway, California has admitted that 500,000 gallons of water were wasted based on an unsafe...
Half of the World’s Food Is Thrown Away
That old bunch of carrots or pot of soup that sat for too long in your fridge, then...
Toxic cloud of tar sands waste travels from Detroit to Canada
A massive cloud of black dust that swept across the Detroit River into Windsor, Canada this week has been linked to piles of petroleum coke,...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pleads guilty to charges of dumping hazardous waste in California
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to charges the company dumped hazardous waste in California. A company spokeswoman...
The Convenience of Plastic Is Killing Our Oceans
About 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year. In the US alone, about 30+ million tons...
Fukushima operator may run out of space for radioactive water
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has revealed that it may not have enough space to store the contaminated water that began to leak from its...
Fukushima nuclear plant flooded daily by 400 tons of groundwater
Groundwater flooding has become a major problem for Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), with hundreds of tons of...
Six Radioactive leaks detected at waste site in northwest US
Six underground nuclear tanks in Washington State are leaking radioactive waste, the state’s government announced on Friday, describing...
‘No immediate risk’: Nuclear waste tank leaking in Washington
One of the most contaminated waste sites in America is leaking nuclear waste according to US officials. The...
US starts to ban bottled water
Source: The Watchers A law passed by the town of Concord, in the US state of Massachusetts, went into effect with the New Year, making single-serving bottles...
14 nuclear reactors, 1 Nuke sub, 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 contaminated ships, dumped into the ocean near the North Pole
A Soviet K-27 submarine suffered a nuclear accident before being dumped at the bottom of the Kara Sea...
Fukushima fuel pool is urgent national security issue for America, ‘top threat facing humanity’
After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported, (more…)
Could fungi break down plastic and stop a very modern scourge?
The normally synthetic material, which is most generally made from petrochemicals, degrades really gradually because it's complex chemical bonds make it resistant to all-natural processes...
Billionare spends millions in Campaign donations to poison the Ogallala Aquifer with nuclear waste
By Julie Bykowicz Business Week Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger...
Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic
By Fastcoexist.com The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them,...