Author: Erin Elizabeth

The Environmental Protection Agency has been involved in a number of controversies over the years, such as the Gold King Mine spill or their silence on the use of fracking wastewater on farmland. Now, the federal agency is under fire for their collusion with one of the world’s most evil companies: Monsanto. Monsanto has become infamous for their genetically modified seeds, and for manufacturing one of the most widely used herbicides, Roundup. Their star weed-killer has gained notoriety of its own, thanks to its toxic active ingredient, glyphosate. While the corporate behemoth claims that the product is safe, there is...

Lagos, Nigeria, is surrounded by an abundance of water that millions of people, in Africa’s most populous city, don’t have access to. And now, it may become criminal to try and access it because the coastal city is in the middle of a water crisis. Only 1 in 10 people have access to the water that the state utility provides. Everyone else is on their own; either by drilling their own boreholes or fetching water from lakes or rivers. If you can afford to pay local water vendors (and you’ll PAY), you do that. But buyer beware- water is often sold...