ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and feed a massive dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem, concentrated in agricultural regions that flow into the Mississippi River.… Read More »
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and feed a massive dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem, concentrated in agricultural regions that flow into the Mississippi River.… Read More »
What’s happening During the four years between 1969 and 1972, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon. In the more than 50 years that followed, no man of any nation repeated this feat. The United States hopes to break that streak in the next few years through NASA’s new lunar program called Artemis. The space… Read More »
The bottled water industry has challenged recent findings by Columbia University that its product contains hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous “nanoplastics” (plastic particles small enough to enter human cells). In a statement to The Hill, an industry trade association urged people to stay calm (and continue drinking bottled water) while scientists develop a more… Read More »
The average liter of bottled water contains almost a quarter of a million invisible particles of tiny nanoplastics, detected and classified for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists have long predicted that there are large numbers of these microscopic pieces of plastic, but they never knew how many or what kind… Read More »