source The Japanese government officially decided to discharge the Fukushima nuclear polluted water into the sea on April 13. This move not only caused dissatisfaction and doubts among Japanese citizens, but in its neighboring countries such as China and South Korea. They pointed out that Japan’s decision is extremely irresponsible and will seriously damage international […]
The level of plastic build-up in the world’s oceans has reach a critical stage where it is now making its way into the marine food chain – and into our human diet. It seems like an impossible problem. However, there may be an innovative solution on the horizon.
Barbecue orgies, potato pay and lava bombs + this day in history w/the McDonald's massacre and our song of the day by Eric Church on your Morning Monarchy for July 18, 2018.
Around 8m tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year. How can we clean up our seas?
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From ‘dancing’ octopuses to hospitable clownfish, the winning images from this year’s Underwater Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the breadth and beauty of aquatic ecosystems
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Humans may think movement and dancing is restricted only to ourselves, however, researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been able to give us a new view entirely.
A Buda, Texas, man has been hospitalized with a flesh-eating infection after spending a day at the beach with his family. He is the second Texas man to be sickened by the bacteria in two weeks.
Adrian Ruiz, 42, spent the day with his family in Port Aransas, Texas, near Corpus Christi, to celebrate Father’s Day. But that Sunday, Ruiz developed a fever and headache and noticed a rash on his leg.
Brian Parrott, 50, from San Jacinto, Texas is now in the hospital struggling to survive after contracting flesh-eating bacteria from a recent beach trip to Galveston, Texas.
On June 12, Parrott took his family to the beach to enjoy a nice day out. But what should have been a lovely day turned quickly into a nightmare. Over the next few days after his family’s seashore adventure, Parrott started to become increasingly ill.
It has been highly reported that biotechnology company Monsanto made attempts to hide the true impact that toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have on the environment, which has led numerous cities to file lawsuits against the company. Now, new research has surfaced on the true effects behind Monsanto’s PCBs and their impact on wildlife.
At the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, scientists are running out of space for the plant’s enormous amounts of irradiated water. The radioactive water is being stored in thousands of tanks, and contains tritium, a substance that is hazardous to health. About 300 tons need to be pumped into the plant every day to keep its reactors cool.
Tritium can be removed from water in laboratories, but such an effort would be preposterously expensive, so scientists have another idea in mind: dumping the nuclear waste into the ocean.
