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Irish, Italian Organized Crime Mobs Lead Global Illegal Dumping Racket

A new report from a European Union judicial body blames organized crime gangs based in Italy and Ireland for much of the illegal global dumping of dangerous waste.

The report damns national authorities for not going after eco-crime gangs more aggressively, and laments that international environmental crime has been given a very low priority.

To be sure, Interpol recently announcedits first “most…

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#bird eggs #Eurojust #European Union #hazardous waste dumping #Ireland #Italy #monkeys #most wanted list #organized crime #water pollution

Wake up, Wall Street! China Polluting Its Economy (& People) to Death

China just became the world’s biggest economy. But at what cost? And for how long?

Hunan is a province of the People’s Republic of China, located in the south-central part of the country to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting.

China’s economy is destroying its environment. The latest example of this is a story in the respected South China Morning Post…

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#arsenic #cadmium #China #heavy metals #Hunan Province #lead #mercury #soil pollution #Wall Street

Unlike BP Oil Spill, NOBODY Seems to Care @ This New Horrible, Deadly Oil Spill

Of course you remember the BP oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico. It came with pictures the world’s media could use that showed all that ugly black gooey oil gushing out of a pipe into some of the world’s most beautiful water.

But what if the BP spill had happened on the other side of the world in Bangladesh, a poor country with little or no media exposure? Would the world have noticed then?

You…

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#Bangladesh #crocodiles #dolphin sanctuary #oil spill #Sela River #tigers

Will Climate Change Make the Ohio State Buckeyes the Michigan Buckeyes?

They’ve been the Ohio State Buckeyes for as long as anyone can remember.

But if climate change is allowed to continue unchecked, they could become the Michigan Buckeyes. “Dread the thought,” one Ohio State professor recently said, given that the University of Michigan is Ohio State’s sworn enemy in sports.

What you need to know is that the buckeye is a species of tree naturally found in Ohio. But…

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#buckeye tree #climate change #Michigan #Ohio #Ohio State University #University of Michigan

11-Year-Old Takes Vow of Silence in Climate Change Protest

His T-shirt explains, “I am taking a vow of silence until world leaders take action on climate change.”

After being told that nobody will listen to an 11 year old speaking out against climate change, Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez decided to prove them wrong.

Not by speaking out, but by remaining silent.

Itzcuauhtli’s “vow of silence” has sparked a still-spreading global protest by kids which…

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#China #climate change #Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez #United States #vow of silence

Is Your Mobile Phone Making You Sick?

Can’t be separated from your mobile phone?

Then listen up:

If you don’t want to get sick, start cleaning your phone. Tests show that mobile phones are an environmental health nightmare. When TV station KFOX in El Paso, TX recently asked microbiologists to test some mobile phones, the results were, shall we say, sickening.

The average mobile phone surface is a hotbed of bacteria, yeast and mold.…

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#Android phone #bacteria #cell phone #KFOX TV #Micrococcus Luteus #mobile phone #mold #Staph #yeast

Will People Soon Be Riding on ‘Solar’ Roads?

The Netherlands is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a small, densely populated country, lying mainly in Western Europe.

Tired of hearing about car and school bus exhaust polluting the air and making people sick? We sure are.

Imagine if the roads in your community were paved in a way that the road itself was a giant solar panel. Imagine that the road could turn…

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#bike path #electricity #Netherlands #solar road #Solar Roadways #SolaRoad

Why are Criminals Stripping England Bare of Mushrooms?

They don’t want every mushroom that grows in England, just all the ones that taste good.

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of tasty mushroom species in England, and a lot of restaurants and markets that apparently are anxious to sell them without asking how they were obtained.

The result: a mushroom crime spree.

As this Guardian story notes,…

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#England #illegal foraging #mushroom #The Guardian #The New Forest

Is There a Link Between Fracking and ‘Dead Babies’?

A recent headline in the Denver Post newspaper should not — can not — be ignored. The headline:

Dead Babies Near Oil Drilling Sites Raise Questions for Researchers.

Funny how we haven’t heard about this amid all the happy talk on TV and in Washington about how Americans should be thrilled with their country’s oil boom.

Of course the United States should get off its dependence on oil from the…

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#benzene #chemicals #dead babies #fracking #oil drilling #pregnant women

You’ll Want to Wash Your Hands After You Read This

How many different germs do you think there are on your hands?

Your hands are home to more than 3,000 different bacteria from 150 different species.

Even though women wash their hands more than men, they still have more bacteria on their hands than men. Researchers don’t know why. They think it may have something to do with men sweating more or women using cosmetics.

What researchers do know is…

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#germs #handwashing #soap #water

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which is the Ugliest of Them All?

Proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus (Credit: dbimages / Alamy)

It’s not fair. Why should endangered species that are cute and cuddly get everyone’s attention while ugly species get no love at all?

Yes, panda bears need to be saved. But the following endangered species need help too. To give them the attention they deserve, let’s start with a contest of sorts. You decide: Which of these endangered…

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#aye-aye #Giant Titicaca Lake frog #humphead wrasse #Madagascar #overfishing #panda

Should a College tell Students to Pee in Shower to Save Water?

Now don’t get all grossed out on us. With drought plaguing many parts of the world (see California, Brazil, and elsewhere), two students at a college in Great Britain reportedly are urging their fellow students to urinate in the showers on campus in order to save on water.

East Anglia is a region of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The two go to the University of East…

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#drought #Great Britain #peeing #shower #University of East Anglia #water

How to Chew & Create Energy at the Same Time

We’ve all heard the expression “walk and chew gum at the same time.” It refers to being able to do two things simultaneously.

There’s no better way to express the potential of an underway experiment in Canada where scientists hope to harvest the energy a human body produces when chewing food and use that energy to charge cell phones, hearing aids and other small devices.

As reported by the…

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#chinstrap #energy harvesting #Institute of Physics #jaw #piezoelectric #walking

Shoes That Make Electricity? It’s Possible with Kinetic Energy

You’re looking at a picture of engineering students from Rice University who just turned a pair of shoes into a power plant.

Chances are, you will be wearing a pair of electricity-generating shoes in the years to come.

Your shoes will be able to power your mobile phone and medical devices like maybe a heart monitor.

How’d they do it? Through the magic of kinetic energy.

Kinetic energy is nothing…

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#electricity #kinetic energy #medical device #mobile phone #PediPower shoes #Rice University #wearable power

Did US Just Legalize Pollution of the Great Lakes?

That’s what environmental groups think.

They’re mad — rightfully so, in our opinion — that the US government just issued a rule making it legal for owners of ships carrying “dry cargo” such as coal and iron ore to wash the residue into the Great Lakes after the cargo has been offloaded.

What a message that sends! At a time when owners of coal-fired power plants are being ordered to stop dumping…

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#coal #dry cargo #Great Lakes #Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission #iron ore #limestone #water pollution

Watch This Video to Learn ‘What’s Possible’ in Your Lifetime

How will the world use energy in the future — your future?

So much is possible, as you will learn when you watch this short video that was produced by The Earth Day Network and Moving Art for the United Nations Climate Summit.

As this short film makes clear, clean, renewable energy can change everything about our lives. It can help end not only pollution but global conflict. It can not only…

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#Earth Day Network #Moving Art #renewable energy #United Nations Climate Summit #What’s Possible

Bush Beats Obama in Prosecuting Eco-Criminals

Conventional wisdom would lead you to believe that President Obama’s environmental record is better than his predecessor’s, George W. Bush. But when it comes to prosecuting environmental crimes, Bush beats Obama, according to research by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Actually, it’s not all that surprising, given that President Bush, despite his reputation as…

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#Environmental Protection Agency #oil #President George W. Bush #President Obama #Syracuse University Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse #wind power

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