Currently in Crystal City, Texas, residents are tuning on their faucets and bathtubs to find that only black water comes out. Authorities have brought in truckloads of fresh water and have responded relatively quickly when compared to many other such occurrences, where those is low-income areas have been faced with toxic water as their only means Read More…
Environment
A Pandemic Paradox – Weighing the Zika Logistics
There is a swirl of information concerning the Zika virus whipping through the Internet and across media outlets worldwide. And a lot of it is confusing, to say the least. No one really knows where it came from or how to fight it, there’s no available vaccine, no cure and very little consensus on how Read More…
Poison Below the Poverty Line – An American Water Crisis
It is the hottest story in 2016 so far: hundreds of people have been poisoned for as long as a year and a half by a neurotoxin released in large quantities directly into their water supplies. Cable news and papers across the country have covered the emergency with horrifying interviews, wild statistics and the repeated Read More…
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint
As the nation rightly focuses on Flint’s ongoing water crisis, other cities in the state of Michigan face even higher levels of lead contamination. The alarming pervasiveness of potentially toxic drinking water extends across the United States. The Detroit News reports that, “Elevated blood-lead levels are seen in a higher percentage of children in parts of Read More…
Navy Sonar Tests Killing Tens of Thousands of Marine Life
There has been an unprecedented amount of marine-life washing up on shores by the thousands either dead or dying. When still alive, they appeared in most cases to be clearly disoriented. Ones that were helped back to the water would only find themselves right back on the beach, and in some cases internal and external Read More…
Climate Change: A Call To Explore What’s Real And What’s Not
There is no escaping it, climate change is a hot topic that is appearing everywhere in today’s culture with no signs of disappearing. It is as polarizing an issue as there is, dividing the public into various types of belief systems. There are so many factors at play in this subject matter that one can Read More…






