Women the world over are able nurturers and ready warriors. March 8 is International Women’s Day. Here we celebrate some of the women in history furthering sustainability and care for the planet.   Rachel Carson Half a century ago on September 27, 1962, a book revolutionized the way environmental issues [...]

Alarming headlines from around the World are sharing the toxic tragedy regarding the current ticking time bomb within China; now, that they are officially admitting to clusters of ‘cancer villages’ scattered within their highly contaminated borders. Do we really dare open this Pandora’s Box of Pollution? The official statement by [...]

One wonders with a title as ‘provocative’ as this, what’s to follow; regrettably, nothing more than a truthful and bitter tale of greed and child slave-labour, mainly because of what I like to call “The Chocolate Wars”.  These corporate battles have been going on for quite some time, and are [...]

With such easy access to clean water in the UK, it’s easy to take this vital resource for granted. However, clean water is truly essential to a healthy life, and without access to it, mortality rates in children skyrocket, and average life expectancy plummets. In the UK, contamination of water [...]

According to Time Magazine, China is burning as much coal as the rest of the world is cumulatively burning. What’s the problem with this? Time reports: “Coal already accounts for 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, making it one of the biggest causes of man-made climate change. Combine that with the direct damage that air pollution from [...]

The capital of China was forced to cancel flights due to poor visibility and temporarily shut down factories due to the high levels of smog. The Associated Press writes: The capital was a colorless scene. Street lamps and the outlines of buildings receded into a white haze as pedestrians donned face [...]

China’s environment minister stated that the emissions of four major pollutants (sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical oxygen, and ammonia nitrogen) dropped last year by two percent, and that the country would see a similar decline this year. “To cope with an air quality crisis, contingency measures will be adopted, such [...]

NASA has share that the air quality in the Middle East and Asia has been terrible this winter. NASA monitors the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels with the  Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on its Aura satellite, and has found that NO2 is a good proxy for pollutants:   Nitrogen dioxide is [...]

Though it isn’t the largest city in China, the capital of the world’s most populous country is still a very crowded place.  With a population of 19.5 million and growing, Beijing is famous for a number of things—among them, its persisting pollution problems.  However, citing cold weather coal burning, increasing [...]

Evonik Corporation recently showcased the Wind Explorer EV at the company’s facility in Parsippany, New Jersey. This all-electric demonstration vehicle just returned from crossing Australia using wind power supplemented by an efficient motor. Evonik solicited help from German drivers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer to pilot the Wind Explorer EV [...]