By Vivian Nereim, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, October 22, 2009 An environmental group released a report yesterday chronicling the millions of pounds of pollutants released by industrial facilities into Pennsylvania’s waterways, saying that the state is the sixth-largest dumping ground for toxic discharges in the nation. The report, released by PennEnvironment, compiled data gathered in 2007 […]
By Emma Thomasson RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) – Standing on the glacier at the source of the Rhone river, glaciologist Andreas Bauder poses next to a 3-meter high pole sticking out of the ice, and gestures above his head. “This is about the melt of one month,” he says, as fellow scientists drill into the […]
National park which was once a ‘paradise’ now on fire and churning out tonnes of CO2 By Giles Tremlett, Las Tablas de Daimiel, central Spain They are meant to be Spain’s most important inland wetlands, but yesterday the lagoons at Las Tablas de Daimiel national park were not just dry, they were burning. Stilted walkways […]
By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned the nation Wednesday to brace for a severe bushfire season as fire crews battled intense blazes stoking memories of infernos earlier this year which killed 173 people. … “I would urge all Australians to make sure they are fully prepared for the challenges […]
From TreeHugger: 5. Exxon Valdez March 24, 1989. The tanker Exxon Valdez, captained by the now infamous Joseph Hazelwood, ran aground on Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef, spilling more than 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil into the sensitive natural coastline. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that 26,000 gallons […]
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food […]
HA NOI — The preliminary results from Ha Noi’s 2009 census, reported that over two million Hanoians are using drilled well water, while a series of surveys have stated that many of the drilled wells in the city are contaminated with arsenic. Nguyen Minh Ngoc, 27, was constantly annoyed with her relatives’ advice to use […]
By John Platt Twenty years after the international ban on ivory trade took effect, poachers are still slaughtering more than 100 elephants a day, according to a report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). The ban on ivory trade, established by the U.N.’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna […]
From Treehugger: New analysis of the bushmeat trade in central Africa by TRAFFIC shows that the scale of trade has been severely underestimated and is actually increasing as forest cover declines. By studying statistical data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the wildlife trade monitoring organization found that in some places the amount of […]
By Staff Writers, Majuro (AFP) Oct 19, 2009 Pacific islands in danger of being obliterated by rising sea levels should seek aid for relocation at a crunch UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, a Fiji-based scientist said. “By 2100, I don’t see how many islands will be habitable,” professor Patrick Nunn, a climate change […]
