Sand-Mining Threatens Homes And Livelihoods In Sierra Leone
Round-the-clock sand-mining on beaches within a few kilometres of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is having a devastating effect on the coastline, destroying property, and damaging the area’s hopes of a tourism revival.
Mauritius’ Beaches Contain Clues Pointing To Sunken Lost Continent
The beaches of Mauritius surround the island like a foamy white trim and sprinkled in the sand are clues to a lost, submerged continent. Beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.
Extreme Weather Linked To Giant Waves in the Atmosphere
Extreme weather events have been on the rise in the last few decades, and man-made climate change may be causing them by interfering with global air-flow patterns, according to new research.
Green Energy Solves Dual Crises of Poverty and Climate
Green energy is the only way to bring billions of people out of energy poverty and prevent a climate disaster, a new study reveals.
South Street Seaport, Lower Manhattan: A ‘Ghost Town’ Months After Hurricane Sandy
The historic cobblestone streets and 19th-century mercantile buildings near the water’s edge in lower Manhattan are eerily deserted, a neighborhood silenced by Superstorm Sandy.
ISRO launches Indo-French satellite ‘SARAL’
Launched with an aim at oceanographic studies, SARAL was accompanied by six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ‘s workhorse rocket PSLV.
CIWEM environmental photographer of the year 2013 entries – in pictures
Outstanding images of climate change, poverty and development will go on display at an exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society, London, from 10 April – 3 May 2013. The exhibition aims to enhance understanding of climate change and social inequality…
US Government Mulls $16bn Plea Deal For BP over Deepwater – Report
The US government and Gulf Coast states are reportedly considering offering BP Plc a deal under which the company will pay $16bn to settle civil suits stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Liberia: Illegal Sand Mining Heightened
Despite efforts by the government to put a halt to illegal sand mining which is blamed on sea and other form of erosions across Liberia, others have refused to yield to the orders as sand mining is said to be at a renewed height and reinvigorated pace in the region.