ENVIRONMENT

A street stall selling flags of presidential candidates Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro at a popular commercial center in Taguatinga, Federal District, on Sept. 21, 2022 in Brasilia, Brazil. Gustavo Minas / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform

When it comes to environmental toxins, many of us conjure images of industrial smokestacks, but unfortunately, they aren’t in just the most obvious places, but they’re everywhere in our daily lives – in the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the products we use on our body, in our homes

Cows on an organic farm in Switzerland. pidjoe / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Factory farming is on the ballot in Switzerland, which could become the first country

A woman carries flour past a damaged sea wall on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. ANDREW MEARES / Fairfax Media via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. In

South Londoners walk beside massive urban regeneration developments at Elephant & Castle in London, England, on Oct. 6, 2016. Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues,

An area devastated by illegal gold mining in the Jamanxim National Forest, state of Para, in northern Brazil. ANTONIO SCORZA / AFP via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions.

Activists in Puget Sound, Washington demonstrate in 2015 against Shell’s Arctic drilling plans. The company acknowledged divesting from places such as Washington, where it saw political pressure to do so, in favor of business as usual in places such as Louisiana where it perceived less resistance. David Ryder / Getty Images Why you can trust

Songbirds in a cage at a bird market in Cartagena, Colombia. Jan Sochor / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Sometimes, beauty can be a death sentence. During the

Wael Sawan speaks at the Qatar Business and Investment Forum in Berlin, Germany in 2013. Adam Berry / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Major fossil fuel company Shell

Flooding in District Jamshoro, Pakistan on Sept. 1, 2022. Shakeel Ahmad / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. The extreme rainfall that flooded one third of

A bee pollinating a strawberry flower. matteodestefano / iStock / Getty Images Plus Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Bees are better for strawberries. About ten to fifteen percent of flowering

Merriam-Webster has added 370 new terms to its dictionary. Merriam Webster / Flickr Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Merriam-Webster has just added 370 new terms to its dictionary, several of

A pod of sperm whale calves and juveniles in a social group on the north west coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. by wildestanimal / Moment / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on

Deforestation from coal mining in a tropical forest on Indonesia’s Borneo Island. ROMEO GACAD / AFP via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. While more than 70 percent of

TMC CEO Gerard Barron holds a nodule from the sea floor. Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. A UN agency has granted

Interstate 270 in Montgomery County, Maryland. The state has a controversial plan to widen the road. Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and