December 13th, 2019 By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World In recent years, supermarkets around the world have come under increasing pressure to explain how they’re going to reduce...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Ultimate Guide to a Conscious Christmas
December 9th, 2019 By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World The festive season is in full swing and across the land, and the sound of cash tills ringing is deafening. There’s nothing...
3-D Printed Coral Could Save Endangered Reefs
December 3rd, 2019 By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World The value of coral reefs is inestimable. They are essential to ocean life, with one-quarter of ocean species depending on them for...
Protected Areas are Not Preventing Human Encroachment, Study Shows
November 29th, 2019 By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Currently, one sixth of the globe’s land now falls within a designated protected area [1], in a bid to protect habitats...
Plastic Water Bottles and Bottled Water Culture
By Kaylee White Guest Writer for Wake Up World When it comes to being better stewards of the environment, we’re all looking for ways that we can improve our overall habits. Some of those...
Man Camps, Fossil Fuels and Murdered Indigenous Women – The Cultural Genocide Continues
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Across North America, the numbers of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is staggering, and shaming. A 2014 national investigation in Canada...
Incorporating Nature into Urban Planning for Better Mental Health
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Mental health issues are a growing concern in today’s modern world. Around 450 million people suffer from mental illness of some kind, but only...
Why Buying Less is Better Than Buying Green
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World We all know that we all buy too much stuff. Consumer culture, particularly in the developed world, has never been more heavily promoted, with...
Crime: The Hidden Cost of Air Pollution
By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World When someone says, ‘air pollution’ the first thing that comes to mind in terms of health concerns is typically not behavior modification...
Study Finds That Access To Green Spaces Decreases Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World A study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, known as ISGlobal, has found a correlation between residing near green spaces and lower risk for...
Study Identifies Connections Between Pesticides and Declining Farmland Bird Populations
September 24th, 2019 By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World In recent years, bees have rightly garnered a lot of attention for their declining numbers due to pesticides and other...
Climate Solutions are Obvious – But Profit and Politics Stand in the Way
September 6th, 2019 By Sergey Baranov Contributing writer for Wake Up World Sometime in 2015 I had an interesting conversation with a retired physicist who was at the time also working for...