Japan Struggling To Store Radioactive Water
Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tonnes of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water treatment team has said.
BP : Asks Judge to Finalize Gulf Spill Settlement Despite Objections
Oil giant BP has asked a federal judge to disregard objections from a fraction of claimants and give final approval to a proposed multibillion-dollar settlement over economic damages from the Gulf oil spill.
Increasing Amounts of Plastic Litter in the Arctic Deep Sea
The sea bed in the Arctic deep sea is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste, according to researchers.
Persian Gulf States See Greater Number Of Green Buildings, Qatar
Green buildings would seem an oddity in this tiny Gulf nation which has plenty of oil and gas and, according to the International Energy Agency, the highest per capita emissions in the world, closely followed by Gulf neighbors Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. But attitudes about energy use are changing across the Gulf.
Race Is On to Save Sweden’s Only Coral Reef
Despite the frosty scenes its name evokes, Sweden has a coral reef. In fact, it formerly had three, and the last one remaining is in danger of dying out.
Countries Agree to Double Resources for Biodiversity Protection by 2015, UN Conference
The world’s governments have agreed to increase funding in support of actions to halt the rate of loss of biodiversity at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
Some Caribbean Hotels Back Away from Battered Coastlines
The postcards portray sand, sea and sun. But key players in the Caribbean tourism industry are warning that it’s time to shift gears away from the region’s threatened coastlines and instead promote inland attractions like biodiversity.
Evidence of Sea Level Acceleration at U.S. and Canadian Tide Stations, Atlantic Coast
Sea level is rising all over the world thanks to the heat-trapping effect of greenhouse-gas emissions, but according to a new study published in the Journal of Coastal Research, the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada have seen the ocean rise at an accelerating rate in recent decades.
Why Are U.S. Eastern Seaboard Salt Marshes Falling Apart?
Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern seaboard and other highly developed coastlines, without anyone fully understanding why.