Photo Essay: Eco-Nightmare in EU Candidate Serbia
Plastic bottles, old tires, cardboard boxes and other garbage block the flow of the Juzna Morava river, so badly that men in rubber boats need to use paddles to clear the way…As Serbia seeks EU membership, it faces a major problem with environmental pollution.
Calif. Utility to Retire Troubled San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast is closing after an epic 16-month battle over whether the twin reactors could be safely restarted with millions of people living nearby, officials announced today.
Alarming Illegal Gold mining Threatens Ghana’s Forests and Bodies of Water
Ghanaian authorities have arrested 168 Chinese citizens for illegal goldmining, highlighting the social and environmental challenges posed by China’s growing presence on the continent. The rate of destruction is such that, if it is not stopped, Ghana will not have any forest left…
Giant Garbage Patches of the Sea Become ‘National’ Art in Venice
Five huge patches of rubbish floating in seas around the world will have their own unofficial national pavilion on the sidelines of the world’s largest non-commercial art fair in Venice this week, thanks to artist Maria Cristina Finucci.
Think Beyond Plastic
Think Beyond Plastic, is a competition and a conference, initiated by The Plastic Pollution Coalition, featuring entrepreneurs and solutions that measurably reduce plastic pollution. This competition and conference will take place on June 13, 2013 in Berkeley, CA and is open to the public.
Pollution In Dubai: Not Cigarette Butts, Nor Plastic Bags but Luxury Cars
Unlike in some cities across the globe where unsightly pollution like empty Styrofoam cups, broken beer bottles and yesterday’s newspapers roll like tumble weeds down the street; Dubai residents are complaining of abandoned cars polluting road sides and parking lots.
NOAA Report Examines National Oil Pollution Threat From Shipwrecks
NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation’s coastal marine resources.
Hands Across The Sand, Miami 2013
On Saturday, weekend beach-goers and environmental activists joined hands along Miami Beach to take a stand against the U.S. dependence on oil and to promote clean energy resources.
10 Million Pounds of Trash Removed from Waterways, Coasts, Beaches: 2013 ICC Data
For nearly three decades, Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) has mobilized millions of people in the world’s largest volunteer effort for our ocean, coasts and waterways. Volunteers pulled 10 million lbs. of trash, equivalent to the weight of 41 blue whales, from 17,719 miles (28,516 kilometers) of global waterways and beaches…