How do sewage spills and failures pollute coastal watersheds?
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Despite all the benefits that clean water and healthy beaches provide coastal communities across the county, coastal water quality continues to be threatened by discharges of stormwater and sewage.
Over 47 tons of plastic found at US marine reserve – and an entangled seal
In a span of just over three weeks, more than 47 tons of plastic waste were removed from America’s largest protected marine reserve, sometimes directly
Thousands of barrels of suspected toxic DDT found dumped in California ocean
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Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels possibly containing DDT dumped off the southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to the …
If it’s safe, dump it in Tokyo. We in the Pacific don’t want Japan’s nuclear wastewater
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Earlier this month, the Japanese government announced plans to discharge 1m tonnes of radioactive wastewater accruing since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 into the Pacific Ocean.
Biden vows to slash US emissions by half to meet ‘existential crisis of our time’
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Joe Biden has called upon the world to confront the climate crisis and “overcome the existential crisis of our time”, as he unveiled an ambitious new pledge to slash US planet-heating emissions in half by the end of the …
Will Probiotics Save Corals or Harm Them?
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Bacteria are helping corals in lab tests, but risks rise as treatments are applied in the wild.
She survived Hurricane Sandy. Then climate gentrification hit
Boarded up bungalow destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on Beach 43rd Street in the Edgemere neighborhood of Far Rockaway, Queens, on 6 April 2021. Photograph: Krisanne Johnson/The Guardian
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Kimberly White Smalls needed her coastal home rebuilt, but like other Black …
This Glacier in Alaska Is Moving 100 Times Faster Than Normal
Crevasses formed on the Muldrow Glacier from the pressure of surging ice. National Park Service
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The Muldrow Glacier, on the north side of Denali in Alaska, is undergoing a rare surge. In the past few months the 39-mile-long river …
Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea
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Japan has announced it will release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea…