By Mark W. Boutwell Guest Writer for Wake Up World The United States is considered one of the countries with the safest tap water in the world. There are approximately 155,000 public water...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Primary Water: A Solution to Drought, Famine and Social Unrest?
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World While some regions are breathing a sigh of relief with the arrival of El Niño this year, other areas are still faced with...
Fracking Wastewater is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions...
Greed Trumps Justice: Indigenous Tribe Stripped of Their Native Lands – Over Gold
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The Dann sisters, Carrie and Mary, are two Western Shoshone elders who live on ancestral and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent...
The Big “If” – What If Marijuana and Hemp Had Never Been Prohibited?
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The Big “If” The history of marijuana and hemp prohibition is a dark and shady story with all the makings of a...
Fukushima: 5 Years of Fire – Global Day of Action, March 11, 2016
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Happy New Year! No, I’m not talking about 2016, I’m talking about Year 5. Fukushima, Year 5. It’s almost 5 years...
Massive Methane Leak in California Forces Residents to Flee Homes, Schools
20th January 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Classified as one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters since the Deepwater Horizon 2010 BP oil spill, a...
The Fracking Industry’s Answer to Toxic Wastewater: Spray It On Public Roadways
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Just when we thought it couldn’t get much worse on the fracking front — polluted groundwater, poisoned environment...
Clean and Green — Dutch Company Powers Gadgets and Street Lights with Living Plants
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Could living plants be the future of electricity? If the folks at Plant-e have anything to say about it, the answer is a resounding YES. To...
Groundbreaking Study Maps the Decline of Wild Bee Communities in the United States
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most of us are aware that the humble bee is not only responsible for creating one of the most natural, health giving, and ...
Monsanto Charged With Crimes Against Nature and Humanity, Set to Stand Trial in 2016
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World People are fed-up. And angry. We simply no longer accept that corporations have the right to ride roughshod over the environment or...
The Eco-Modernist Manifesto: a Program of Genocide and Ecocide
By Derrick Jensen BSc. Guest Writer for Wake Up World The idea that anthropocene — the human alteration of natural ecosystems — can be good or even great, as...