Sand Mining: Growing Pains of Cross-Border Trade
When powerful storms strike, like Typhoon Hato in southern China or Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the surging water scatters tons of sand – an essential ingredient required for the rebuilding soon to follow. Such storms add to growing global demand for sand with poor consequences for the economy and environment.
Birling Gap beach: 150 treated after chemical ‘mist’, UK
About 150 people have been treated in hospital and hundreds more affected by an unknown gas which hit the East Sussex coast.
Kenya brings in world’s toughest plastic bag ban: Using plastic bags is illegal — and punishable by jail time
No matter where you go in Kenya — from the vast expanses of the Great Rift Valley to the white-sand beaches off the Indian Ocean — one thing is a constant: plastic bags. But beginning today, almost all plastic bags are illegal in Kenya.
Climate Refugees: Kiribati, Video
Scientists have said that the island nation, along with other low-lying Pacific nations, could be uninhabitable within decades. Sea level is rising 50 percent faster than it was 20 years ago and that is a real cause for alarm, so it is not a future thing we are really seeing that acceleration…
New App enables divers to chart marine litter levels
A new smartphone app is enabling scuba divers across the world to easily record information on the marine litter they encounter under the sea.
US, Canada to investigate deaths of endangered whales
Marine authorities in the U.S. and Canada said Friday they will marshal resources to try to find out what’s behind a string of deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales.
Why Sardinia’s tourists taking sand as souvenir face fine
Famed for its pristine beaches, the Mediterranean island of Sardinia has hit back at holidaymakers who have been pinching its sand.
Zeebrugge, Belgium
This Belgian town has just 4,000 inhabitants, but it takes 11,000 people to operate the port.
Spectacular rebirth of Belize’s coral reefs threatened by tourism and development
Report reveals improvement but also details danger posed by tourist-generated pollution, oil extraction and climate change.