Texas’s reputation of having the biggest of everything just got a major boost with the announcement that the world’s largest nature park is to be built in the city of Dallas. The years-in-development park project has not received much publicity so far, partly because it is actually the result of a tying together of several […]

A North Dakota pipeline spill has released many tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into a nearby creek, just two and a half hours away from Cannon Ball, ND, where activists have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline for months. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, their allies and […]

(NaturalNews) Thousands of snow geese were burned and poisoned to death when they landed in a Montana mine tailings lake filled with acid and toxic metals. The 700-acre Berkeley Pit is a massive crevice left behind from nearly 30 years of copper mining. It filled up with water 900 feet deep, which then accumulated toxic […]

The entire organic community of the United States just won a massive victory that many may not yet even realize. Even though the DARK Act was passed by Obama and some Senate goons to prohibit labeling of GMOs nationwide, the US Court of Appeals just passed a law that enables states and counties to completely […]

Dennis and Lee Ann Walters have two 5-year-old boys, and the twins have been poisoned by lead from Flint, Michigan’s tainted water supply. The boys continue to suffer health problems. Lead is a toxic heavy metal that accumulates in the body and can cause brain damage. As noted by the Chicago Tribune, exposure to lead […]

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have jointly concluded that a major contributing factor to asthma in school-age children could be exposure to bacteria and allergens from rodents like mice. Many public schools, they say, are teeming with high levels of mouse allergens, which asthmatic children susceptible to irritation are encountering on […]

Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, has declared that the denial of an easement necessary to drill under the Missouri River will not be impeding their plans to complete the project. A statement released by ETP and Sunoco Logistics – which will be acquiring the company via merger – boldly […]

Instead of focusing on stopping the overuse of animal antibiotics, or the mistreatment of animals squeezed into filthy conditions and piles of fecal matter in an animal feeding operation (CAFO), the Silicon Valley technocrats would rather have you not eat meat at all. It’s just too carbon intensive and not good for the environment, they say. So they’re raising and investing […]

According to the Indiana Board of Animal Health, anthrax was recently discovered on a southern Indiana beef cattle farm. Following the unexpected and sudden death of a mixed-breed bull, tissue samples collected by a veterinarian revealed that the rod-shaped bacteria  Bacillus anthracis, commonly referred to as anthrax, was at play. Reports indicate that people who […]

The latest viral trend has been to participate in a mannequin challenge. While it might be all fun and games for some participants, not everyone is happy. The latest version of the trend to go viral has left some animal lovers concerned. On Blue Lagoon Island, many tourists show up for the Dolphin Encounter in […]

An animated earthquake map video produced by the U.S. NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) shows every recorded earthquake between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2015, – the first 15 years of the 21st century. The amazing and somewhat terrifying animation proceeds at a rate of 30 days per second, and reveals a great […]

Canada’s legacy Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval of two controversial pipeline projects earlier this week has angered allies in the environmentalist cohort and in the indigenous community. “Environmental groups began condemning the decision as Mr. Trudeau was making his announcement late Tuesday afternoon, but the prime minister said that the pipeline expansion did not […]

Paying the price of convenience could indeed cost a lot more than just a little extra money — it may cost you your health, too. While bagged salads may seem relatively innocuous, new research has revealed that they can actually be vectors for disease — most notably, Salmonella. The researchers, from the University of Leicester […]

The Navajo Nation recently filed suit against the United States government – to the tune of nearly $160 million – for damages and ongoing injuries resulting from a mine spill and the toxic waste that was released into the environment near the tribe’s territory. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken responsibility for the devastating […]

Charlotte McPherson has been banned from keeping horses after Facebook users spotted photos of her riding a skeletal ex-racehorse She was reported to the RSPCA after dozens of animal lovers were shocked by images of her aboard thoroughbred Thor at an event in March The 22-year-old from Kidderminster admitted two counts of animal cruelty Banned from […]