Explosion Sparks Fire On Oil Tanker Off Japanese Coast
An explosion on an oil tanker off the Japanese coast set off a huge fire Thursday and left the vessel’s captain missing. The tanker wasn’t loaded when the blast went off Thursday morning, the coast guard said, reducing fears of a major environmental disaster.
The Colorado River Returns to the Sea
More than eight weeks after the he Morelos Dam on the Arizona-Mexico border was opened to allow a “pulse flow” , which began on March 23, and now nearing its end, the Colorado River, after coursing through its delta, touched the Sea of Cortez.
Mining For Smartphones – “Coast, Coral and Community,” A Documentary Series
A remote island of the Indonesian archipelago is being stripped off its forests and dug up for tin used in millions of mobile phones, tablets and laptops. Tin mining is taking its toll on the island’s coastline, damaging mangrove forests that help protect it from tropical storms and big waves.
Three years after Japan tsunami, suspected debris arrive on Washington shores
Three years after an undersea earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, the disaster’s aftermath is still being felt in ways large and small, far and wide. On a beach in southern Washington, approximately 4,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean, debris that may be from the tsunami is washing ashore.
Humpback Whale Strandings In West Australia
An unprecedented number of mostly young whales have become stranded on the West Australian coast since 2008.
Rules To Cut carbon Emissions: A First-Of-Its-Kind Study
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is slated to release the nation’s first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants on June 2, 2014. Syracuse and Harvard Universities teamed up to analyze how carbon pollution standards for existing power plants will decrease the emission of several co-pollutants, improve local air quality, decrease atmospheric deposition, and benefit people and ecosystems.
The Evolution of Climate Legislation in Three Infographs
The global canon of climate legislation has undergone significant changes over the last four decades.
Hurricane Sandy Impacts Did Not Contribute to Subsequent Storm Flooding, A Study
Flooding in coastal areas bordering Great South Bay, N.Y. and Barnegat Bay, N.J. caused by winter storms that occurred following Hurricane Sandy was not influenced by changes Sandy made to barrier islands or other bay features, according to a new USGS Study.
Kauai Is Called The Garden Island: Here’s Why
Towards the end of the Hawaiian archipelago lives a small, rainy island called Kauai.