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News & Articles By Edsel Cook
05/24/2018
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By Edsel Cook
The Ocean Cleanup’s revolutionary machine, which aims to collect some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash, is ready to take its first voyage
In Alameda, California, workers of the nonprofit group The Ocean Cleanup are assembling the components of a massive machine that will collect plastic trash from the ocean. An article on Fast Company states that the device will be towed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch during the summer of 2018. The revolutionary machine is the […]
05/23/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Starting small: Environmentalists call for bans on plastic straws to reduce environmental pollution
Environmentalists around the world are aware that banning plastic straws and stirrers will only reduce the world’s plastic pollution by a small margin. An article in the Associated Press states they are willing to start with those small items as a symbol of greater reductions to come. Faced with Mexico-sized islands of plastic pollution adrift […]
05/23/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Solar power, rain or shine: Hybrid solar cells can generate power from raindrops
Solar power has finally come across a way to overcome one of its greatest weaknesses: Rain. In a Science Daily article, Chinese researchers presented a hybrid solar cell that can produce electricity even when it is raining cats and dogs. In addition to gathering power from sunlight, the new cell can also harvest electrical power from rainwater […]
05/23/2018
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By Edsel Cook
The politics surrounding GMOs: Bureaucrats don’t care about the environment and are more interested in money
By and large, government bureaucrats in America and Europe don’t care two sticks about the environment or public health. They only care about the profits promised by big businesses that are using GMOs to take over the world’s food supplies, an article in GreenMedInfo stated. It started in the U.S. in the 90s. The executives […]
05/21/2018
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By Edsel Cook
The U.S. Steel Fairless Works plant in Falls, PA found to be the one of the worst water polluters in the state
In a Bucks County Courier Times report, a local environmental nonprofit has compiled a list of the ten worst water polluters in Pennsylvania. One of these facilities is the U.S. Steel Fairless Works plant in Falls, PA. PennEnvironment based this list on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from January 2016 to September 2017. The nonprofit counted […]
05/21/2018
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By Edsel Cook
More than 200 chemicals found near fracking wells, some of them are known endocrine disruptors
A recent review of scientific literature has shown that the air in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) facilities – such as fracking wells – are laden with hundreds of potentially dangerous chemicals. Of those air pollutants, more than 30 may harm hormones and the endocrine system, according to a West Virginia Public Broadcasting article. Published in the journal Environmental […]
05/19/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Northern Australia mining town demands the Health Department blood test its residents after water supply found contaminated with lead
The population of Borroloola, a remote mining town in central northern Australia, got the shock of their lives when they heard that their drinking water had higher amounts of lead than normal. In an ABC News report, the indigenous Garawa community is demanding blood testing for affected families from Australia’s Department of Health. Earlier in April […]
05/19/2018
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By Edsel Cook
EPA: Soil in the upper American Fork Canyon contain high levels of arsenic, lead, mercury, and other harmful metals
The American Fork Canyon in Utah is drawing in more people who enjoy its great beauty. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is concerned about the abandoned mines that dot the upper canyon. In a report from The Salt Lake Tribune, the soils around those sites have been contaminated with heavy metals like arsenic, […]
05/16/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Plastic pollution in Bandung, Indonesia has reached critical levels; government officials say they are in a “battle” they cannot win
The Indonesian city of Bandung is facing a foe that local government officials fear they cannot overcome: Plastic trash. In a BBC report, army units have been sent to the city to clean up a veritable berg of garbage that clogged an important waterway. Armed with nets, the soldiers scooped up all kinds of plastics […]
05/15/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Study: Deep-sea trawling is extremely destructive for fish populations and has little economic benefit
Deep-sea trawling is not worth the fish hauled back to port. In an article from Mongabay, U.K. researchers said the technique did far too damage to the seafloor and populations of slow-breeding fish in exchange for meager amounts of consumable catch. In addition, the fishermen who practice this technique often under-report their actual catches. A lot of what they capture […]
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