Environmental Hazards
Environmental Hazards
Two widely used neonicotinoids—a class of insecticide—appear to significantly harm honey bee colonies over the winter, particularly during colder winters, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
On Saturday, May 17, join communities around the country to ask the president and local officials to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, offshore drilling, and other dirty fuel projects that threaten our communities and destabilize our climate.
A new study from Harvard implicates two neonicotinoid pesticides, imidacloprid and clothianidin, in the ongoing plague of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder. Imidacloprid is the most widely used pesticide in the world, and both are approved by the EPA.
Fracking may cause earthquakes much farther from the sites of its wastewater wells than previously thought, researchers said here Friday (May 2) at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America.
The coalition of cowboys and Indians offers a radical departure from the environmental movement long criticized for being led by the so-called Big Greens — largely white, middle class membership groups whose interests don’t often represent those actually living in the frontline communities where the pipeline will be built. Moreover, it is a model of relationship-based organizing.
Radiation produced by fracking can accumulate in the water we drink, the fish we eat, and the soil in which our food grows.
Problems with Plastic and What YOU Can Do About It – Written, Illustrated, and Narrated by High School Senior Tess Havas. Tess is a high school senior at The Center School in Seattle, Washington. As part of her senior project, she created this video to spread awareness about the effects of plastic pollution on the ocean and our health. Next year Tess plans on attending Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore to create more visuals about important issues.
China is submitting proposals to its national legislature that would amend the country’s environmental protection law for the first time in 25 years. “China’s coal consumption has become the single most significant determinant for the future of the world’s climate,” reports Greenpeace.
Today, the world marks the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe – the biggest man-made disaster in history. Here is some chilling video footage showing what Chernobyl looks like now.
n what is being called a legal blow to the fracking industry, on Tuesday a Texas family was awarded $3 million in the first ever verdict to be handed down over the negative health impacts of fracking. Bob and Lisa Parr of Wise County sued Aruba Petroleum in 2011 for shale gas drilling operations which their lawyers said “fouled the family’s 40-acre ranch property, their home and quality of life,” by sickening both them and their daughter Emma, as well as their pets and livestock.
Former USDA inspector, Rosalind Peterson delivers a presentation at the United Nations forum on Global Warming about the negative impact on the environment of existing climate modification programs (geoengineering) and persistent jet contrails (chemtrails). Note that although this presentation was made in 2007, it is still very relevant in 2014.
Senator Domenico Scilipoti wants chemtrail or weaponized weather documents to be declassified becuae through Vittorio Prodi, the USA signed a bilateral agreement on climate research. In 2003, former Minister Martino authorized the USAF to fly over Italian airspace. The Senator of the ‘Forza Italia’ party is now hoping to expose State Secrecy on chemtrails – the same ones we are still denying exist.
Can citizens, rather than governments or corporations, solve the vanishing bee problem by making it easy to keep bees? Join the OSBH team to find out!
Honeybees are vanishing. Reignite your passion to save them by watching this stunning high-speed clip of the world of pollen and pollinators from Wings of Life.
An increase of acidity in the Pacific Ocean is quickly killing off one of the world’s most beloved shellfish, the scallop, according to a report by the British Columbia Shellfish Grower’s Association.
