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pollution
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Brand New China Pollution Video Will Blow Your Mind
02 Dec 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
China’s smog is still around and it’s only getting worse with children even being allowed to stay at home from school.
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Radical Aerial Shots Show Sewerage Dumped Along Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard [Video]
15 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s about time us humans start looking after our planet a bit better. I know some of us are trying, and it doesn’t come cheap, but at this rate we’re going to have nothing left.
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These Photos Showing The Litter And Waste On Mount Everest Will Shock You
05 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
If there’s one thing you can count on us humans to do it is trash just about any and every environment put in front of us. Oceans, tick. World’s highest mountain, tick.
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London’s Air Quality Gets A 10/10 Fail – Look At This Picture [GALLERY]
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
London looked similar to Beijing this week, covered in a haze of pollution. The air quality was deem to have deteriorated to 10 on a 10-point-scale that measures air pollution. Here are some photos from 3 April, showing the scale of the pollution.
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This Guy Wants To Use A Vaccuum Cleaner For China’s Smog [VIDEO]
31 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A while ago we posted a story about the state of pollution in China. In particular, we focused on Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province where 11 million people attempted to evacuate, as pollution levels stretched beyond 30 times the healthy limit. Just last week, the government shut down schools, major roads and businesses, as the city ground to a halt. The streets were empty as the thick smog dominated the horizon. But now, an innovation from dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde might be able to help out.
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Mindblowing: Chinese City Shuts Down Due To ‘Choking’ Smog [GALLERY]
22 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When it comes to air pollution, China is pretty much the worst. Chinese citizens are used to grey skies in summer, acid rain in winter and choking smog all year round, but nothing quite like this has ever happened. Harbin, the rough-and-tough capital city of Heilongjiang province is home to some 11 million people – all of whom tried to evacuate at the same time, when pollution reached critical levels just yesterday.
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Johannesburg Is The 7th Most Polluted City In The World
17 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In the world’s biggest economies Johannesburg rates as the 7th most polluted air. The title of most polluted city goes not to Beijing as most would imagine, but the city ofLudhiana in India.
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New Organism Found In Ocean Lives Off Plastic
24 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The problem of pollution may have found a possible solution. Marine microbiologists have discovered an organism that lives in waste plastic. With the literal tons of plastic waste floating in the ocean, this could be key to finding a way to biodegrade plastic.
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America’s Massive Fires Are A Preview Of A Changed Climate
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Scientists say that the catastrophic wildfires in the US West offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring. Apocalyptic like fires have been raging across Colorado, Montana and Utah for weeks, and scientists say are a damaging impact of global warming.
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Earth Is A “Planet In Crisis”
15 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Over the past four decades, wildlife populations on Earth have declined by more than 30%, and some species by as much as 70%. The revealing data has prompted conservationists to label Earth as a “planet in crisis”.
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Apple’s Dirty, Dirty Cloud
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Earlier this year Apple opened the doors to their manufacturing plant, Foxconn, to the public for the first time. It wasn’t pretty. Now, they’re being dragged into the spotlight again by none other than Greenpeace. Apparently their amazing iCloud isn’t all that amazing for the environment.
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The Taj Mahal Will Cave In Between Two And Five Years
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
India’s most famous tourist attraction, the 358-year-old Taj Mahal, will collapse within five years unless something drastic is done. The wooden foundation is becoming brittle and disintegrating due to a lack of water. This is because the river crucial to its survival is being blighted by pollution, industry and deforestation.
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Will A Mining Tax Help Clean Up Toxic Water?
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new levy for the mining industry is currently under consideration by Government. The purpose of the tax would be to finance the clean up of toxic acid water which rises and flows out of abandoned mines. Pollution from acid mine water is a major problem in Gauteng. Very unpleasant.
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