46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found clogging New Orleans catch basins
In New Orleans, clean-up crews have found 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads in the catch basins on St. Charles Avenue...
Radioactive Strontium-90 Found in Fukushima Groundwater
It has been over two years since the catastrophic meltdown at the Fukusima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the...
New Material Cleans Polluted Water by Acting Like a Toxin Magnet
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a material that they call SLUG-26 which acts like a pollutant magnet...
Scant Evidence That Dispersants Help in Oil Spill Cleanup
Not only has BP "spilled" an estimated 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico -- the company has also...
Kevin Costner Cleaning up the Gulf with His Oil Separating Technology
No, we are not kidding. Neither is Kevin Costner. When the Exxon Valdez catastrophe happened in 1989, the actor,...
President Obama Allocates $800 Million to Repurpose Old GM Factories
We’ve had so many factories shut down in the US over the past few decades that we just didn’t know what to...