Category: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

Microplastics—tiny fragments born of a fossil-fuel economy—have silently permeated oceans, marine life, and the human body, revealing a crisis far deeper than visible pollution. From seabed sediments to seafood on our plates, these particles disrupt ecosystems, impair species, and bioaccumulate across the food chain, raising urgent health concerns. As shows, even staple foods like mussels…

Four women from Chikli Badra village in Banswara district of Rajasthan Kalpana Pargi, Santosh Pargi, Manjula Pargi, and Lalidevi Pargi set an inspiring example of self-reliance through community farming despite challenges such as sloping land, limited resources, and uncertain rainfall. With guidance and training from Vaagdhara organization, these women started collective cultivation of American maize…

Fifteen years after the Fukushima disaster, its shadows still stretch across oceans, ecosystems, and public health debates. Joshua Frank revisits the 2011 catastrophe to expose how a “beyond design-basis” failure revealed the inherent risks of nuclear power—risks still downplayed by governments and industry. From radioactive contamination of marine life to unanswered questions about long-term cancer…

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), that was planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to…

The Trump administration handed Bayer another win, urging the Supreme Court in a new brief to side with the German pesticide company in a high-stakes legal case that could wipe out thousands of cancer lawsuits and potentially billions of dollars in liability tied to glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller.

Concrete is rising fast along the Chenab, but at what cost? As hydropower projects multiply across this fragile Himalayan valley, cracked homes, fading springs, forest loss, and anxious communities tell a story far more complex than “clean energy.” With seven projects advancing and strategic anxieties simmering under the Indus Waters Treaty framework, the river is…

New transmission lines for “green” energy installations are on the drawing board all over the United States. This aspect of solar, wind, etc., is generally over-looked except by the people who live nearby. With so many miles proposed, that’ll be more and more people as time goes on. I expect there will be pushback, at…

Older adults who lived in areas with high air pollution levels early in the 2000s scored significantly worse on memory tests in 2011 than their peers in low-pollution communities, even if air quality improved in the meantime, according to a new study.

Syngenta, maker of a controversial pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease, said on Tuesday that it will stop making its paraquat weed killer by the end of June.

Tiny pieces of plastic, widely found in food, water, and air, can harm the development and function of specialized brain cells that regulate reproduction, new research reports.   These cells, called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, act like main switches for puberty and fertility. During early development, they must travel to the right place in the brain…