We’ve all stood outside on a wintry day, trying to catch snowflakes on our tongues. Heck, some people even make snow ice cream.
But scientists in Canada have found that snow absorbs nanosized particles and certain organic components of car exhausts. [1]
Maybe you should avoid the white snow as much as the yellow kind.
All the plastic humans are dumping into the ocean ultimately ends up in our stomachs.
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Tap water trust, smart chocolate and big dumb food + this day in history w/Emergency Banking Act and our song of the day by Tom Waits on your Morning Monarchy for March 9, 2016.
Wasted medicine, glass action lawsuit and food deserts + this day in history w/Hayes' sElection and our song of the day by Allen Stone on your Morning Monarchy for March 2, 2016.
The announcement comes in the wake of a three-year moratorium on new coal mines.
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Portland pollution, DowDuPont and beauty risks + this day in history w/the Battle of Los Angeles and our song of the day by Savages on your Morning Monarchy for February 24, 2016.
Keurigs and other single-serve coffee makers make great coffee and they sure are convenient. But environmentally speaking, the little plastic coffee pods, or “K-Cups,” that house the coffee are a nightmare. So much so that the city Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city, just became the first in the world to ban them.
Photograph: Humans are Free
Ice, Heat, Rain, Drought
How can someone in the Inland Northwest not think about weather, the future of our valley, what the aquifer will look like in decades and the potential impacts of some scenario unfolding that is twice (or four times) more extreme/devastating than the windstorm event Spokane, Washington, experienced late last year?
