Single-use plastic straws are an environmental problem that few people think about. But consider the popularity of drinks like fountain sodas, iced lattes and bubble teas; all the accompanying plastic straws add up to a lot of plastic waste. According to Australian researchers, as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws litter the world’s beaches, roughly one for every living human. Those […]
Global fossil fuel emissions are expected to peak in the middle of the 2020s and fall back to near 2015 levels by 2030, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. The rapid progress in renewable energy technology and construction have kept open a path to limiting global, though the agency said faster progress is needed to meet […]
Since 2017, volunteers have gathered worldwide to participate in World Cleanup Day, a popular global event still taking hold in the United States. World Cleanup Day falls on September 16th this year, and you can create a cleanup or join a local event at the National Cleanup website. Over the past five years, World Cleanup Day has mobilized 71 million […]
The United States and human civilization face a nature crisis. Our ecosystems are degrading alarmingly, with dire consequences for people’s health, well-being, and the economy. In 2026, the federal government will launch a groundbreaking initiative known as the National Nature Assessment (NNA), the first attempt at evaluating the state of nature in the United States. It will be instrumental in […]
Smoke season has become an unfortunate, dreary part of every summer. Back in 2018, wildfires across Canada and the western United States plunged parts of the Pacific Northwest into a “smokestorm.” 2023 has seen an earlier fire season in Canada, and choking smoke has descended on New York and other urban centers on the Eastern Seaboard. It’s a bad time […]
Editor’s note: We invited Project Censored to highlight five environmental news stories that should have made headlines. Since its establishment in 1976, Project Censored has tracked pervasive patterns of omission in corporate news coverage, including how the nation’s most prominent news outlets fail to inform the public about systemic social inequalities, consolidation of corporate power, and alternatives to neoliberal economic […]
Did you know that recycling just one pound of plastic #1 (also labeled PET or PETE) saves 22.9 kilowatt-hours of energy and 47.4 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over producing the same amount of plastic from virgin materials? Plastic #1 may be best known for its use in the production of soda and water bottles, a common source of litter […]
Ninety-one percent of all plastic ever manufactured is still unrecycled. And how much have we manufactured? During the six decades that humans have been mass-producing plastic, we’ve created 8.3 billion tons of it. That number grows daily. We didn’t plan ahead for the proper disposal of plastic and now we have a plastics crisis in the U.S. and around the […]
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Thomas Roller created these environmental videos for Save The Earth to educate people about our fragile oceans. Music has always been a way of making people aware of many things. Hopefully people will watch these videos and learn enough to spread the word about our oceans in dire straits. Songs written by Roger Meyers & Chet Forrest. News, Videos