In today’s fast-paced world, we are often eating on the go or rushing from one place to the next and it is no surprise to see how we’ve become dependent upon disposable products. It has been well-documented that single-use plastic food packaging–derived from petroleum and further worsening the ongoing climate crisis–can harm human health as […]
An ABC News investigation tracked plastic bags from Walmart US recycling bins to controversial plastic facilities in Southeast Asia.
Lyndsey O’Connell of VOICE says it’s important to be able to spot measures that are serving industry over environment.
Amazon today announced that its Prime Air drone delivery program will soon launch in the West Valley region of Phoenix, Arizona.
Modern supermarkets are no strangers to plastic. From bagged bananas to single-use pouches of baby food, plastic has found its way into nearly every aisle. Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator and current head of Beyond Plastics, finds this trend concerning. Less than 10% of plastic gets recycled, leaving most to end up buried, burned, or dumped.
The Biden administration is breathing a sigh of relief that it has so far avoided a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. But that self-congratulation should be tempered with realization that it was a close call and that the incentives for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish governing coalition to provoke one are still present. The Biden administration’s rhetorical outrage at Iran’s forewarned and well-choreographed symbolic missile and drone attacks on Israeli...
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez is a disgrace and a national security risk who should be booted from the US Senate.
Brands proactively testing alternative ways to find audiences, without using third-party cookies, are also wasting a chunk of that budget on sending too many ads to a narrow slice of publisher inventory, new data from the demand-side platform (DSP) Adform reveals. When buyers test alternative identifiers, like ID5, UID2, RampID, or a whole host of others, it's mostly in environments where cookies do not exist, like Firefox and Apple's Safari and iOS. While traffic in these environments is...
In a 58-page Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State said that the human rights situation in the Philippines has “no significant changes”.
In battleground states, environmental activists like Dr. Emily Church are canvassing on behalf of the Environmental Voter Project in an effort to turn out people
Residents have plenty of damages to clean up, but they’re thankful to be safe after strong storms swept through Portage County Wednesday evening.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That seemingly obvious, yet previously unproven, point, is the main takeaway from a first-of-its-kind study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Researchers from a dozen universities around the world […]