By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Of all the damage mankind has inflicted upon our earth, the depletion of marine life around the world has been some of the most heartbreaking –...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
(Not a) Surprise: Glyphosate-based Herbicides are Bad for Your Mental Health
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Eat your veggies is no longer synonymous with health thanks to the increasingly documented deleterious health effects of chemical pesticides...
Climate Engineering: New Film Footage Confirmation
January 17th, 2020 By Dane Wigington Guest writer for Wake Up World The climate science community is increasingly calling for massive global climate engineering / solar radiation management...
Probiotics Increase Honey Bees’ Immunity to Fatal Disease
January 8th, 2020 By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World Scientists from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute in Ontario are exploring how probiotics affect the health of...
7 Tips for Reducing Single Use Plastic This Christmas
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World In recent years, supermarkets around the world have come under increasing pressure to explain how they’re going to reduce plastic waste in their...
Ultimate Guide to a Conscious Christmas
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World The festive season is in full swing and across the land, and the sound of cash tills ringing is deafening. There’s nothing wrong with wanting all...
3-D Printed Coral Could Save Endangered Reefs
December 3rd, 2019 By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World The value of coral reefs is inestimable. They are essential to ocean life, with one-quarter of ocean species depending on them for...
Protected Areas are Not Preventing Human Encroachment, Study Shows
November 29th, 2019 By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Currently, one sixth of the globe’s land now falls within a designated protected area [1], in a bid to protect habitats...
Plastic Water Bottles and Bottled Water Culture
By Kaylee White Guest Writer for Wake Up World When it comes to being better stewards of the environment, we’re all looking for ways that we can improve our overall habits. Some of those...
Man Camps, Fossil Fuels and Murdered Indigenous Women – The Cultural Genocide Continues
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Across North America, the numbers of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is staggering, and shaming. A 2014 national investigation in Canada...
Incorporating Nature into Urban Planning for Better Mental Health
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Mental health issues are a growing concern in today’s modern world. Around 450 million people suffer from mental illness of some kind, but only...
Why Buying Less is Better Than Buying Green
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World We all know that we all buy too much stuff. Consumer culture, particularly in the developed world, has never been more heavily promoted, with...