Oil-slick Ship At Risk Of Breaking Up: Release Of a New Tide Of Oil Feared
Fears grew Wednesday that the ship stuck on a New Zealand reef may break up and release a new tide of oil, as up to 300 tonnes of heavy fuel has leaked into the Bay of Plenty so far. Maritime New Zealand is considering issuing face masks to people living near beaches affected by oil from crippled cargo ship Rena.
Cliff Collapse Due To Coastal Erosion, A Video
The landscape of an english coastline, in the Cornwall region, changed in just a few seconds when a rockfall caused by coastal erosion, sent a massive chunk of cliff tumbling into the sea. Capturing a cliff collapse on video is a rare event.
Oil spill: Stricken Ship’s Safety Issues Revealed
Safety issues dogged the stricken container ship spewing oil into the Bay of Plenty as far back as July, it was revealed yesterday.
Oil Spill Disaster In New Zealand : Worst In Decades
An oil spill from a stranded cargo ship off New Zealand is the country’s worst environmental disaster in decades, the government says.
Results of Pebble Mine Measure Expected Mid-Oct.
“Imagine a pit two miles wide by 2,000 feet deep, and an underground mine a mile deep. This gargantuan gold and copper operation would produce an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste, 3,000 pounds for every man, woman and child on Earth…There are few human activities as toxic as large-scale mining…” As vote have been cast, it will be nearly two weeks before Alaskans know the outcome of an initiative aimed at stopping the Pebble Mine project, potentially the world’s largest man-made excavation.
Major hurricane Jova to slam Mexico Pacific coast
The Mexican government declared a hurricane warning for a 100-mile (160-kilometer) stretch of coast form just south of Puerto Vallarta to a point south of Manzanillo, as Hurricane Jova strengthened to a major, Category 3 hurricane.
Asymmetrical waves in barred beaches
Natural beaches often present a breaker bar that significantly affect physical phenomena like, for example, wave transformation, wave reflexion, energy dissipation due to breaking and wave reforming into the trough region.
Deforestation Along The Rio Xingu Shores, Brazil
Although forest preservation has gained traction in the region as a result of new valuation of the ecosystem services provided by the forest, in recent years, concerns about the impact of the burning on global climate change, and greater sensitivity to the ethnic and biological heritage of Amazonia still remain, as Amazonia, has been undergoing a continual and accelerated conversion process into farmlands.
Strong Attachment to Local Communities Made Oil Spill More Stressful for Most Coastal Residents
In one of the first publications to present systematically collected public health data on coastal populations affected by the catastrophic oil spill of 2010, Louisiana State University sociologists report that individuals having a stronger sense of attachment to their community exhibited higher self-reported levels of negative emotional states.