Blogs
A couple of years back, I wrote a brief piece on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, home to little except phytoplankton - oh, and plastic trash. The Great Pacific Garbage patch isn't located anywh...
How times have changed - I remember the days of Dad taking trailer loads of rubbish of all types to the tip and it not costing a dime. A few months ago, I took a minivan load of green waste to a landf...
The Canadian Medical Association has called on the country's government to ban all antibacterial household products due to the possibility they may cause bacterial resistance. Additionally, they may a...
One of the questions I'm most often asked is "how do I recycle polystyrene?" (also known as Styrofoam). Polystyrene recycling is a particularly thorny issue as it's such a light material that takes up...
According to a U.S. Geological Survey study published yesterday, scientists have detected mercury contamination in every fish tested from 291 streams across the USA.That's disturbing in itself, but ev...
A loaded Taiwanese oil tanker involved in a collision in the Strait of Malacca last night is on fire, listing badly and may sink, according to Malaysian police.The ailing ship, Formosaproduct Brick, i...
It's been a tumultuous week in Australia after the voting down of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. It's a complex issue and a sign of things to come for not only our country but others walking t...
Diethyltoluamide or N,N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide, more commonly known as DEET, is used by millions of people around the world as a mosquito repellent. It's the active ingredient in some of the world'...
I'm not sure what they are called in the USA, but here in Australia, the grassed area between the front boundary of a house and the road is called a nature strip.I used to hate the one out front of ou...
Nature certainly seems to be rebelling against humanity on many fronts. Even seaweed is coming back to haunt us for our crimes against the environment.A stretch of beach in France was closed recently ...
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