By Marco Torres Guest Writer for Wake Up World As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Precious Metals vs. Precious Life: Destruction of the Amazon
29th August 2014 By Sergey Baranov Guest Writer for Wake Up World An overview of deforestation and pollution of the Amazon rainforest. When Avatar, a masterpiece written and produced by James...
After the Hurricane: Lessons from the Heart of Nature
28th August 2014 By Jack Adam Weber L.Ac., Dipl. C.H. Contributing Writer for Wake Up World I did everything I could to stay calm, or at least not to feel excessively freaked out. I write...
All-Natural Pesticide Unveiled by Scientists – and It Won’t Kill the Bees!
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...
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...
