Cooking The Climate Wrecking The Reef:The Global Impact Of Coal Exports From Australia’s Galilee Bassin, Greenpeace
A coal basin near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will rank among the world’s worst producers of carbon pollution if fully mined, Greenpeace said, as it warned of devastating consequences. ” Cooking The Climate Wrecking The Reef: The Global Impact Of Coal Exports From Australia’s Galilee Bassin”, is a Greenpeace Australia Report.
International Coastal Clean Up, 2012
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Salton Sea fingered as culprit of big California stink
After a day of odor surveillance and other scent-based sleuthing, Southern California air quality investigators confirmed Tuesday what they had already expected, that a pungent, rotten-egg aroma that stretched across the region came from the Salton Sea.
Mass stranding of pilot whales both on Us and Uk’s Beaches
More than 20 whales are thought to have died after becoming stranded off the coast of Fife, Scotland, while on the other side of the Atlantic, more than 20 pilot whales came ashore on a South Florida beach…
Green Protests On The Rise In China
For years, people in China have accepted murky air, tainted waters and scarred landscapes as the unavoidable price of the country’s meteoric economic growth. But public dissent over environmental issues has been growing steadily.
New Global Warming Culprit: Dams
Washington State University researchers have documented an underappreciated suite of players in global warming: dams, the water reservoirs behind them, and surges of greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down.
Caffeinated Coastal Waters
A new study finds elevated levels of caffeine at several sites in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Oregon, though not necessarily where researchers expected.
NOAA Collects 50 metric Tons of Marine Debris From Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
The crew of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship pulled 50 metric tons of marine debris out of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off the northwestern Hawaiian Islands last month, part of an ongoing mission since 1996 to clean up the shallow coral reef environment.
Alan Gastelum, Photographer, Lobbies New York City To Address East River Garbage
New York’s East River has had its share of environmental challenges over the years. And while progress has been made since the days when raw sewage and industrial runoff poured unchecked into its waters, portions of the tidal strait remain magnets for garbage and other pollutants.