Surveys taken throughout 2016 show escalating impact from north to south, with 70% of shallow water corals dead at north of Port Douglas. Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef last year was even worse than expected, while the full impact of the most recent event is yet to be determined. Queensland government officials say […]
May 30 2017 | Posted in
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The cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ has started crossing Cox’s Bazar-Chittagong coast near Kutubdia. In the latest special bulletin, Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ moved northwards over North Bay and has started crossing Cox’s Bazar-Chittagong coast near Kutubdia at 6:00 am. It is likely to move in a northerly direction further, it said. […]
About 70,000 tonnes of seabird are now afloat or on the wing off the shores of the British Isles. This biomass – roughly the same as Salisbury Cathedral – is made up entirely of thinking, fishing, hunting, flirting, fighting, flying, diving and feathered beauty: 8 million breeders, several million more adolescents and, by the end […]
May 28 2017 | Posted in
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Environment minister says Coalition takes emissions targets seriously and US climate change policy was ‘a matter for the Trump administration’. The Turnbull government will support the Paris agreement on climate change regardless of whether or not the US president, Donald Trump, pulls out, the environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, has signaled. Trump upset world leaders on […]
May 28 2017 | Posted in
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Documents suggest that a major spill from the Rover pipeline in Ohio described as 2m gallons of ‘drilling fluids’ might now be more than twice as large. The oil company behind the Dakota Access pipeline is facing intense scrutiny from regulators and activists over a series of recent leaks across the country, including a major […]
May 27 2017 | Posted in
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Cars that emit up to 18 times the official NOx limit in real-world conditions are still being sold, 20 months after the emissions scandal broke and amid an ongoing air pollution crisis. Diesel cars that emit up to 18 times the official limit for toxic pollution when taken on to the road are still being […]
May 27 2017 | Posted in
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Famous non-stick cookware has become life threatening!!! It is as deadly as a poison. Non- stick cookware is made of a carcinogenic chemical which starts emitting toxic fumes. So the fumes are inhaled every time while cooking with a non-stick pot! Environment and Social Development Organization- ESDO disclosed these findings through their study report entitled, […]
Allendale, Northumberland I linger, hoping to see a flicker of wings before leaving the trap to work its magic. The night garden is brilliantly lit by the full moon of the moth trap’s bulb. Shadows are thrown deep into the drystone walls and the hawthorn branches show bright against the dark fields. Shading my eyes […]
May 24 2017 | Posted in
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One of the UK’s largest battery storage schemes, built next to a windfarm, will offer vital services to the National Grid. Nestling alongside rows of conifers and wind turbines in a Welsh valley, a pioneering project will materialise this summer that could prove a blueprint for unlocking Britain’s renewable energy potential. The Upper Afan Valley […]
May 22 2017 | Posted in
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No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change. It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in […]
May 22 2017 | Posted in
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