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Here are 4 of the coolest chemicals ever created by humans
Scientists create and discover new materials all the time. But few are so jaw-droppingly cool that they deserve to be recognized.From mindbendingly lightweight solids used by NASA to metals that melt...
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Wind is blowing China's air pollution 'straight across' to the US West Coast
A new study links the increase in ozone precursor emissions in Asia to increased levels of ozone over the US's West Coast.In the study, published Monday, a team of six researchers from US and Dutch...
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How EPA workers accidentally ripped a hole in a toxic mine that's ruined a...
Last week, the Animas River, which flows from southwest Colorado to New Mexico, started filling up with a toxic yellow stew from an old gold mine.It’s changed the color of the river to a mustard...
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Why 96 million 'shadeballs' were just released into the LA Reservoir
On Monday, the last 20,000 of a total of 96 million 'shadeballs' were rolled into a reservoir in Los Angeles, NPR reports.The black plastic balls are used as a cheaper alternative to tarps, which would...
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Colorado wants to re-open the river that turned mustard-yellow with toxic...
The toxic water that spilled out of an old gold mine in Colorado and stained a river deep yellow could be dissipating fast enough for the river to be re-opened as early as Wednesday.Colorado Gov. John...
View ArticleIf you think China's air is bad, you should see the water
After testing a major reservoir that supplies drinking water to Beijing, the World Health Organization has discovered that the water had lead levels 20 times the maximum limit. This comes two years...
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Scientists are worried about what dumping antibiotics into the environment is...
There’s no way around it, the headlines are disturbing. And they come, not from tabloids or click-bait blogs, but from papers published in scientific journals.They describe fish and birds responding...
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Here’s how the EPA plans to clean up the river in Colorado that they dumped a...
On Aug. 5, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers inadvertently breached a wall of loose debris that was holding back a pool of mustard-hued wastewater from the abandoned Gold King Mine near...
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Toxic algae is contaminating our water supply
Toxic cyanobacteria blooms, or blue-green algae blooms are often poorly monitored and have become an under-appreciated health risk, not only in the U.S. but worldwide. There are several factors...
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The EPA’s spill is the least of Colorado's problems: 230 mines have been...
On August 5, over 3 million gallons of toxic waste spilled into the Animas River in southwest Colorado. But it wasn't the first, and it won't be the last, time these harmful materials have leaked into...
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Glaciers in Central Asia are melting at a frightening rate
Paris (AFP) - Central Asian glaciers have melted at four times the global average since the early 1960s, shedding 27 percent of their mass, according to a study released Monday. By 2050, warmer...
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Here's where the plague is most common in the US
A second case of suspected plague has been reported in Yosemite, California, barely more than a week after a child contracted the disease after visiting the park.Also known as the Black Death, this is...
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The 10 biggest issues facing cities today
Cities are laboratories for innovation.They're also the lifeblood of our democracy, acting as the focal points for social movements and civil rights wins that are playing out in real-time. But there...
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July broke the record for being the hottest month in history
Last July was a month for the history books: Never before had humankind experienced a hotter month, on average.Generally speaking, July is usually the hottest month of the year, but July 2015 was...
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One of the world's most threatening glaciers just lost a chunk large enough...
In two days, the world's fastest-moving glacier shed almost 5 square miles worth of ice. That's enough to cover Manhattan in about 1,000 feet of ice, the European Space Agency estimated, assuming the...
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Salad is pretty much ruining the Earth
There are some foods we eat because they're high in protein or fiber, or because they remind us of childhood dinners with our families. Then there's salad.It's a last-resort meal if ever there was one....
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This is the perfect snapshot of how new bulbs in streetlights are ruining...
If you go outside at night and look up at the sky, the chances are that if you're living near a city, you're not going to see much.That's because cities and towns have been steadily increasing their...
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A beautiful, potentially toxic event is 'carpeting' the Baltic Sea
This striking green-blue image isn't a lost work of Van Gogh — it's a giant, growing bloom of microscopic plants and animals in the Baltic Sea, which NASA photographed from space on August 11.But don't...
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Researchers just saw this extremely rare sea creature for the first time in...
Feast your eyes! It's been over 30 years since any human has seen the creature in this photo:This bizarre, yet beautiful, animal is called a nautilus. Nautiluses are the "living fossils" of the...
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Here's why you should reuse your hotel towels
Anyone who has stayed at a hotel before is familiar with the small signs in the bathroom that ask hotel guests to consider reusing their towels in an effort to help the environment.While it's easy to...
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