Vietnam: Police Takes Action Against Illegal Sand Dredging
Bien Hoa City Police and the waterway traffic police in the southern province of Dong Nai, gave chase to nine boats seen illegally dredging sand.
Rio Gears Up For Green Fireworks
This year’s New Year’s Eve fireworks on Rio’s famed Copacabana beach, an event expected to draw nearly two million party-goers, will have an environmental theme, officials said.
Philippines Floods: An Expected Shock
The typhoon that hit Mindanao in the Philippines before Christmas to claim 1,000 lives and leave nearly 50,000 homeless was a shock, but not a surprise. In 2009, campaigners and scientists simulated the effects of a tropical storm on the island, and predicted that the two coastal cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan would be hit by flash floods. At the time, the prediction was dismissed as alarmist.
Oily: How A San Francisco Oil Spill Took Its Toll On Fish
The impacts of an oil spill does not end when Anderson Cooper goes home… A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looks at the aftermath of a 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, and finds the accidents has had lingering effects on local fish, effects that continued well after the spill was cleaned up.
Oil On Nigerian Coast After Shell Oil Spill
An environmental group said that an oil slick had approached Nigeria’s coastline after a major Shell spill last week, but the company insisted that its spill had been largely dispersed, and now is contained…
Alstom unveils French sites for 6MW offshore wind turbines
Plans to deploy up to 6GW of wind farms off the French coastlines have taken a major step forward, after Alstom earmarked two ports to build its first manufacturing sites entirely dedicated to wind energy.
Sri Lanka Battles Sea Erosion
In the past, to shore up defences against sea erosion, Sri Lanka has used hard structures including rock, which disfigures beach areas and could also shift erosion to adjacent areas, by redirecting energy…
Iberian Peninsula at Night
The city lights of Spain and Portugal define the Iberian Peninsula in this photograph from the International Space Station (ISS). The network of smaller cities and towns along the coastline and in the interior attest to the extent of the human presence on the Iberian landscape.
Litter Of Light
Around 25,000 low-income homes in the Philippines have been lit up after the launch of a scheme to fit sunlight-powered “bulbs” made from old plastic bottles.