Better Desalination Technology, Key to Solving World’s Water Shortage
With 1.8 billion people predicted to live in areas of extreme water scarcity by 2025, desalination, the removal of salt from water, is increasingly being proposed as a solution, but officials and experts need to commit to overcoming obstacles that make the process expensive, unsustainable and inefficient, a Yale University study found.
Oil slick spreads from sunken ship off Mumbai
Indian authorities worked to clean up an oil spill from a cargo ship that sank off Mumbai last week, with oil found on beaches and in water near the city’s shoreline.
Japan Tsunami Broke Huge Icebergs Off Antarctica
The massive March 11 Japan earthquake and its ensuing Tohoku tsunami, were so powerful that they broke off huge icebergs thousands of miles away on the coast of Antarctica. Researchers witnessed and recorded, for the first time, evidence of an ice mass separation triggered by a tsunami; until this discovery they could only speculate that was possible.
La Plage, Brought To Paris, France
Warm sand and open air music in Paris… La Plage de Glazart is a unique open air summer festival featuring 140 artists and bands playing on a 50 tons artificial sandy beach, brought in the heart of the city.