The World’s Dirtiest River is Getting Cleaned Up; A Video
“The Citarum river, in 7 years, will be the cleanest river.” – Indonesian President Widodo…
Struggling in the surf: Australian beaches pose dangers to newcomers
Despite a campaign launched in 2016 by the Australian Water Safety Council, the number of drowning fatalities has risen year-on-year since 2015.
This Could Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ for North Atlantic Right Whales
Researchers who have been observing migrating North Atlantic right whales, which are endangered, are troubled by what they found this season: no sign of any newborns.
South-east Asia closes island beaches to recover from climate change and tourism
More popular South-east Asian islands will be off limits to visitors this year as officials seek to protect eco-systems crumbling from warming seas and unchecked sprawl, despite the risk to tourism revenues and tens of thousands of jobs.
Hotting up: how climate change could swallow Louisiana’s Tabasco island
With thousands of square miles of land already lost along the coast, Avery Island, home of the famed hot sauce, faces being marooned.
Journalist investigating illegal sand mining cases run over by truck, MP, India
A journalist investigating illegal sand mining cases in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh was run over by a truck on Monday, media reports said.
Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico will take decades to recover from farm pollution
The enormous “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico will take decades to recover even if the flow of farming chemicals that is causing the damage is completely halted.
Newport Beach Officials Prepare for Possibility of Big Tsunami That Could Flood Large Swaths of City
Tsunami and emergency response experts at a Newport workshop last week offered tips on how to avoid the devastation of the quake-triggered waves.
First lorry-load of sand arrives at storm-hit Hemsby beach, UK
Work has started to replace sand stripped away from a beach, following storms which left a row of houses perched on the edge of a cliff.