By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Good news on the honeybee front — a team of scientists in the UK have created a biopesticide made from spider venom and plant...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Is Roundup Weedkiller A Brain-Damaging Neurotoxin?
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A study reveals a hitherto unknown mechanism behind how the world’s most popular GMO herbicide harms the brain. Remarkably, despite...
Why Monsanto’s ‘Cure’ For World Hunger Is Cursing The Global Food Supply
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World What if the very GM agricultural system that Monsanto claims will help to solve the problem of world hunger depends on a chemical that...
The Most Natural Organic Pool You Can Build Yourself
By April McCarthy Guest Writer for Wake Up World There are many reasons to avoid chlorinated pools, most of all due to your health and the environment. Natural pools allow nature to provide hygienic...
Junking Down Our Food Supply – Genetic Scientist Discusses GMOs
By Dr. Thierry Vrain Guest Writer for Wake Up World It is high time to change the debate from the safety of engineering food to the pesticides that are inside the food. The technology is essentially...
The Dangers of Fracking and Why it Must Be Stopped
By Julian Websdale Guest Writer for Wake Up World Hydraulic fracturing is the fracturing of rock by a pressurized liquid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally – certain veins or dikes...
Nuclear Truth and Formality: Looking Beyond the Corporate Spin
25th July 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World Truth and Formality Perhaps Japan is the starkest example of a society that prefers to adhere to formality rather than...
Nuclear Experimentation – Year 69
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World On 16th July 1945, 69 years ago, the United States Army set off the Trinity detonation in New Mexico, the beginning...
How to Stop Geoengineering in Your Community – and Why you Should Care
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World More individuals around the world are looking skyward with concern at the increasingly frequent crosshatch patterns left by...
Report: Electromagnetic Pollution is Harmful to Mental Health
By Dr. Edward F. Group Guest Writer for Wake Up World There are 190,000 cell phone towers in the US, and new evidence suggests that exposure to these towers may alter brain function. The...
The Link Between GMO Cotton and Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World We may not associate much risk with seemingly “inedible” genetically modified crops like cotton, but the dangers are very...
Plants Are Far More Intelligent Than We Ever Assumed
By April McCarthy Guest Writer for Wake Up World Like higher organisms, plants appear able to make complex decisions. A new study shows that plants may be able to initiate a survival mechanism...