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90% of Plastic Waste Polluting Earth’s Oceans Comes From Asia and Africa

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Despite westerners being lectured by climate activists like Greta Thunberg, a study has found that around 90 per cent of plastic waste polluting earth’s oceans comes from Asia and Africa. This comes as a second study after a first study back in March 2019 said that up to 95% of world ocean plastic pollution is caused by Asians and Africans. During her U.S. tour, Thunberg cited “horrifying pictures... 

Category 5 Hurricane Dorian Set to Hit Bahamas and then Florida

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The day before, the National Hurricane Center stated that Hurricane Dorian could change its path and make landfall in Georgia and in either of the Carolinas. The National Hurricane Center upgraded Hurricane Dorian to a Category 5 storm on Sunday with sustained winds reaching 160 mph. The centre added that the hurricane was about to hit the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas. ​The day before,... 

Cambodia will send back 1,600 tons of trash to US and Canada, govt says country is not a dustbin

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Cambodia will return 83 shipping containers loaded with plastic waste to the United States and Canada, the country’s Environment Ministry has announced. The move comes as Southeast Asia tires of accepting the west’s refuse. The shipping containers were discovered on Tuesday in Sihanoukville, once a sleepy fishing village and now an overdeveloped, rubbish-strewn port city on the country’s south... 

New Orleans Is About To Be Absolutely Devastated By A Storm Of Biblical Proportions

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New Orleans is about to be hit by “an extreme rainfall event” that is likely to be the worst disaster that the city has seen since Hurricane Katrina. It is being projected that Tropical Storm Barry could officially become a hurricane before it makes landfall on Saturday, but in this case the wind speed is not really that important. Instead, the massive amount of rain that this immense storm will... 

1 out of 7 Swedish wildfires in 2018 arsons, 4 out of 10 started by unknown causes

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Last year, Sweden was struck by the warmest summer in 200 years and forest fires broke out all over the country. Barbeques, smokers, lightning and sparks from trains and forest machines got most of the blame for the fire outbursts. Figures show that 14% of the Swedish wildfires were deliberately planted. In addition, another 39% of the fires started without any evident cause. The causes of the fires... 

Greece: 6 Dead, 100 injured in Halkidiki Massive Storm

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Tornadoes and violent hailstorms killed six tourists including two children in northern Greece late Wednesday, police said. Estimates of the injured ranged from at least 30 to more than 100 after the sudden and violent storm hit Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki, on Wednesday night. Trees were uprooted, vans flipped over and motorcycles scattered through the streets by gale-force winds, as... 

Cockroach superbugs evolve to resist pesticides in ONE GENERATION, study finds

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Cockroaches will soon be impossible to kill with standard pesticides, as they can develop cross-resistance to poisons they’ve never encountered within a single generation, an ominous new study has found. German cockroaches – the small, quick-scurrying type whose traces can be found in 85 percent of US urban homes – are rapidly becoming impervious to pesticide chemicals, developing cross-resistance... 

Crops Devastated As More Ferocious Storms Pound The Midwest

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It has gotten to the point where maybe we should just expect violent storms to hammer the Midwest every single day of the week. Highly destructive storms ripped through the Midwest on Tuesday, it happened again on Wednesday, and the forecast calls for more powerful storms on Thursday. This growing season has been a complete and utter nightmare for U.S. farmers, and each day it just gets even worse.... 

Torrential Rain of Biblical Proportions is Causing Immense Devastation for Midwest Farmers

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The wettest 12 months in all of U.S. history was followed by the second wettest May on record, and for some parts of the Midwest the month of June will be even worse. Some portions of Ohio and Indiana have gotten 10 more inches of rain since Friday, and more rain is literally falling on the Midwest as I write this article. When I describe what we have witnessed as “torrential rain of Biblical proportions”,... 

Tap water turns Purple in Ohio, officials say "it's safe"

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Residents of Coal Grove, Ohio turned on their faucets Monday to find something unexpected — bright purple water. And city officials claimed it was perfectly safe, once diluted. No, it was not photoshop or special effects. The city water running from faucets and toilets in Coal Grove really was a regal shade of purple that would have pleased Prince. According to city officials, the bright purple... 

Mystery as Volcano-Like 'Underwater Anomaly' Spotted Off US East Coast

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The YouTuber who shared the mind-boggling finding said he was inspired by the discovery of a new submarine volcano off the coast of Africa last week, which is believed to be behind a series of mysterious low-frequency quakes near the French island of Mayotte, located between Mozambique and Madagascar. YouTube vlogger MrMBB333, whose discoveries have always spawned conspiracy theories online, has shared... 

US never bothered to secure its Pacific nuclear waste coffin from leaks

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The US has failed to prevent the Runit Dome temporary nuclear waste storage site from leaking into the ocean, leaving the inhabitants of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands and cleanup workers with an array of health problems. “There was never any lining put in that dome,” Ernest Davis, an Enewetak Atoll cleanup veteran, told RT, noting that the US government apparently had never planned to... 

US Nuclear Coffin Leaking Radioactive waste from tests into Pacific Ocean during Cold War

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A massive concrete dome built during the Cold War to contain waste from US Nuclear testing has degraded and began leaking nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has confirmed. While the imposing structure at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands may look like something from a James Bond movie, Guterres described it as a “kind of coffin:” a stern reminder of... 

Giant Tornado Sweep Over Romania, Reportedly Leaving 12 People Injured

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According to local media reports citing prefect George Jakob, a tornado ripped the roofs off ten houses in the village of Drazhna and turned over a passenger bus, injuring about 12 people. A giant tornado has swept over Romanian cities, causing damage to houses and cars, Storm News reported. A video of the vortex was captured by a passing car. Weather forecaster centres warned people about the “yellow”... 

NASA says CO2 is Greening the Earth, its actually the Ecologists who destroy the Planet

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In direct contradiction to the scare stories about carbon dioxide being relentlessly pushed by the climate change alarmists, a scientific study published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by NASA reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are having a tremendously positive impact on the re-greening of planet Earth over the last three decades, with some regions experiencing over a 50% increase... 
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