Gujarat Beaches No Longer Pristine, India

Coastal tourism in Gujarat is proving to be a non-starter. More than the economic downturn, the main reason for this is the gross mismanagement of numerous beaches dotting the state’s huge coastline of 1,600 km.

Israel’s beaches: where sand and sun meet pollution

The Bat Galim beach in Haifa, which has been closed to swimmers for eight days, stands next to the barb-wired backside of an army base. Across the way, housing projects bake slowly in the sun. Three years ago, I came here on a date, and it seemed to be one of Israel’s most forlorn beaches. Even the sand is grayer, and harder.

Salton Sea fingered as culprit of big California stink

After a day of odor surveillance and other scent-based sleuthing, Southern California air quality investigators confirmed Tuesday what they had already expected, that a pungent, rotten-egg aroma that stretched across the region came from the Salton Sea.

Green Protests On The Rise In China

For years, people in China have accepted murky air, tainted waters and scarred landscapes as the unavoidable price of the country’s meteoric economic growth. But public dissent over environmental issues has been growing steadily.

New Global Warming Culprit: Dams

Washington State University researchers have documented an underappreciated suite of players in global warming: dams, the water reservoirs behind them, and surges of greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down.