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School Day Tips: Packing a “Green” Lunch

May 21, 2013 5:45 AM1 comment
School Day Tips: Packing a “Green” Lunch

Do you send your child off to school with a home-made lunch? Follow these tips to make the process as “green” as possible.

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Obama Objects, but Uranium Mining Set to Proceed

May 9, 2013 6:35 AM0 comments
Obama Objects, but Uranium Mining Set to Proceed

An old uranium mine in the Grand Canyon is set to reopen in a few years, but serious environmental concerns are at the heart of a lawsuit filed to stop it.

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New Study Links Traffic Pollution to Heart Disease

April 30, 2013 6:55 AM0 comments
New Study Links Traffic Pollution to Heart Disease

Scientists and doctors have been researching the effect traffic pollution has on the human body for years. Damning evidence against high pollution areas has already been collected, claiming that people who live by busy roads and in inner cities have poor health and a low life expectancy. A new study [...]

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The Artificial Lawn: Greener Than Natural?

April 17, 2013 6:55 PM0 comments
The Artificial Lawn: Greener Than Natural?

Each household wouldn’t mind having a big lawn to hang out during those warm summer days. A lawn can be a place to hold various activities, including sports, outdoor dinner parties, and barbies. While the green movement has been sweeping across the world, more and more people are looking to [...]

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5 Relatively Unknown Pollution Problems

April 11, 2013 6:15 AM0 comments
5 Relatively Unknown Pollution Problems

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. –Barry Commoner We have all heard it before, and we’ll surely hear it again. But pollution is a growing concern for the world, one which if don’t start thinking now how to prevent so much of it from entering [...]

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Vows To Tackle Pollution

March 19, 2013 7:57 PM0 comments
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This year, we’ve covered quite a bit on China’s pollution problem and the importance of tackling it as soon as possible. Long story short (okay, maybe not so short): China’s air pollution levels broke records this year and reached dangerous levels. So much so that the Chinese media has taken a [...]

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The Health and Sustainability Issues of Eating Fish

March 18, 2013 9:14 PM0 comments
The Health and Sustainability Issues of Eating Fish

Fish, shellfish and other marine animals have been an important part of the human diet throughout human history, providing vital nutrients and shaping much of our approach to food. The ocean’s incredible diversity has even influenced the evolution of entire societies. Today, as science learns more about how we benefit [...]

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New Study Links Pollution and Autism

March 14, 2013 9:05 AM0 comments
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According to a new study by UCLA researchers, there’s a correlation with babies exposed to air pollution in the womb and autism—a spectrum of disorders ranging from a profound inability to communicate and mental disability to milder symptoms seen in Asperger’s syndrome that affects one in every 88 children born in the United [...]

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Toxic Time Bomb: Chinese ‘Cancer Villages’

March 1, 2013 8:48 PM0 comments
Toxic Time Bomb: Chinese ‘Cancer Villages’

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 [...]

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Deadly Water in the Third World

February 19, 2013 7:19 PM0 comments
Deadly Water in the Third World

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 [...]

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