Toxic byproducts of Agent Orange are polluting the environment in Vietnam, including its food supply, 50 years later. During the Vietnam War, U.S. aircraft sprayed more than 20 million gallons of herbicides – including Agent Orange – on the country’s forests, crops and wetlands. Agent Orange contains a byproduct called dioxin TCDD, which can remain in the environment […]

Hawaii tops Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index for the seventh time, while West Virginia scores the lowest for the 10th year straight. Life’s a beach in Hawaii. The Aloha State topped Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index, released on Wednesday, with residents reporting the highest scores on how they feel about their health, their […]

Walmart will be reducing their plastic waste, the company announced at their supplier growth forum. In their most recent press release the corporation outlined a set of commitments to be more environmentally friendly. • Seek to achieve 100 percent recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable packaging for its private brand packaging by 2025; • Target at […]

Process is drought-resistant way to meet water demands, supporters say Desalination is harmful to environment, costly compared to other sources, according to opponents Slimming down a $17 billion plan to shunt water from Northern California to the arid south has the state considering ways to supplement water needs. Desalination is one of the methods getting […]

Australian swimwear company Zoggs launched a bathing suit line called Ecolast made from Econyl brand yarn manufactured using regenerated plastic waste. In addition, the company committed to switching to sustainable packaging across their product range by 2020. Econyl yarn is made by Aquafil using a system that starts with waste like abandoned ghost fishing nets, […]

How new technologies are helping organic farms increase their margins—and propelling sustainability into the mainstream In farm country, “climate change” can be a dirty word. Whether you’re standing in a chilly shop in Nebraska, sweltering in a Virginia bean field, or walking a California vineyard, mentioning greenhouse gases or rapidly changing global weather patterns is […]

We should convince the rich that climate remediation is a sure thing and that they better get in on the ground floor We’ve been taking the wrong approach to communicating about climate change. I get that the situation is dire. Really dire. But it goes way beyond the fact that every year is the hottest […]

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has determined that the Hawaii deep-set longline fleet, which mainly targets bigeye tuna, killed one false killer whale (FKW) and seriously injured another within federal waters in January. Two is the maximum number of FKW mortalities or serious injuries (M&SI) allowed in a calendar year under rules intended to […]

A couple of years ago, Joe Satran wrote a very insightful article on the Huffington Post about the impact of the coffee industry on the environment. Satran brazenly stated that the industry was worse for the environment than ever before. The good news is that there are lots of new things that are helping out. […]