MyEnviroMind

It's a cycle. We take our resources, produce the item, sell it, use it, bin it. Make profit and repeat. Plastic beads found in the sand Photo via Twitter: https://twitter.com/BellesFitz/stat us/828882881942605824/photo/1 The natural substances become unnatural synthetics, masses of them making it difficult for ecosystems to cope. Positive feedback? Profit and money-loving citizens pushing our planet further from it's harmonic balance. A tragic story we so desperately wish to hide ourselves from. The Great Winter Nurdle Hunt survey was carried out by 600 volunteers this February. From this, the survey has found that 53 billion 'nurdles' (tiny pellets used in plastic production) are estimated to escape into the UK environment each year. The UK - a developed country in our westernised society. Is it not our responsibility to prevent this pollution so as to avoid hypocrisy when advising others not to destroy the environment? Which direction shall we choose? T...

As the shores of New Zealand woke up this morning, news began to emerge and an urgent appeal was spread to encourage anyone nearby to drop their commitments and get themselves to  Farewell Spit in Golden Bay at the top of the South Island. Here the confounded public, with their towels, buckets and sheets as instructed, stared at the 416 whales before them - each one of them dying. Whales stranded at Golden Bay in New Zealand http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-newzealand-whales-idUKKBN15P06K?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social No-one quite knows how they got there, or why it occurred. Whale stranding is common here in the 'whale trap' but that does not detract from the duty and dedication locals have to their helping their habitat; all through the day and night they were prepared to stay and as I type this sentence, there they are still working. The workers soon found that only 100 were still living. The rest were now merely corpses in the sand. At 10:30 they ...

Big & bold - China lately has dramatically and unsuspectingly been emphasising the need for a greener future. The 2nd largest greenhouse gas emitter has developed a new monument of this modern era by creating the world's largest solar farm named Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in the western province of Qinghai. It reaches 27 square kilometres, costed the equivalent of £721.3 m (I believe that's based on the exchange rate of January 2017) and could produce up to 850 MW of power. Now in case you (like me) have trouble understanding the scale of this 'farm' - 850 MW can power up to 200,000 households - according to 'The Guardian.' I would like to ask what type of households these are though, and what the average energy consumption of one is... statistics these days seem to stretch the truth as if it's their only job to do. If you still can't quite understand the scale, here's a photo that may help you establish the space taken up by this vast place....