Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Friday, May 3, 2024

Connecticut's governor "takes partial blame for illegal cutting of 186 trees on neighbor's property"

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NBC : The wealthy two-term Democrat, along with one of his neighbors and a neighborhood organization, have been accused of removing trees in...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

"A fertilizer spill in Iowa this month wiped out much of the aquatic life across a 60-mile stretch of rivers in two states"

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"The latest die-off started, Iowa officials said, when a valve was left open over a weekend on a storage tank at ... an agricultural bu...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Remarkable photos and video from the protest against coal mining in Germany

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19:42 Bagger extrem nah an Arbeitern und Polizei. Strategie von RWE; Aktivistisch nutzbare Fläche schnell wegbaggern. #Luetzerath pic.twitt...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Joining California, Oregon, and Alaska, Washington banned net-pen fish-farming; Biologists discover "zoop soup"

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Seattle Times : the 2017 Cooke Aquaculture net-pen collapse ... released some 260,000 nonnative Atlantic salmon into the sea ... “It’s about...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Last month's heatwave crashed the computers at two of the UK’s leading hospitals

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Guardian : He was speaking nine days after the hospitals’ computers crashed, on 19 July, as a direct result of the record-breaking heat. ......
Friday, December 10, 2021

"Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii"

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 "All told, the financial penalty for Monsanto  totals $22.2 million ."  The name of the product in question was " Forfeit 28...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Plans to mine California's Salton Sea, believed to house a massive amount of lithium

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Vice : The Salton Sea was created accidentally in 1905 after a portion of the Colorado River spilled out of its irrigation system ... The Sa...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

"Why planting tenacious tamarisk seemed like a good idea until it wasn’t, and other harrowing tales of Colorado’s invasive species"

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Colorado Sun : Tamarisk can grow 12 feet in one summer. Tamarisk can hold its breath underwater for 70 days. ... Because this beetle e...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

"Sunny day flooding" in Northern California

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Taking bus back to airport following #AGU19 , we're confronted by "sunny-day flooding" along #SanFrancisco Bay. Following s...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Ten funny tweets

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Omg cnn sent a reporter to Greenland to be on the scene I’m screaming pic.twitter.com/F4lwExV6AU — Stephanie McNeal (@stephemcneal) Augus...
Friday, February 15, 2019

"Residents of a coalmining region in Siberia have been posting online videos showing entire streets and districts covered in toxic black snow"

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Related: This is Interstate 70 westbound near Concordia, Missouri. The video was shot by Heather Wolff. She’s traveling in the eastbo...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

"Mexican farmers claims Volkswagen 'hail cannons' caused drought"

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Telegraph : Volkswagen, which has a major plant in Puebla, has been using "hail cannons" - sonic devises that purport to disrupt...
Monday, July 16, 2018

"Activists and news media often claim that Americans use 500 million plastic straws per day, for example, which sounds awful"

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Bloomberg : But the source of this figure turns out to be a survey conducted by a nine-year-old. Similarly, two Australian scientists esti...

"Goodyear Could Face $105 Million Fine if It Failed to Properly Report Crashes Involving RV Tire"

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" the tire failed on as many as one-in-10 motorhomes" Related: A company which let potentially toxic dust blanket Port Augus...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

"Madrid’s government [has placed] Hundreds of birdhouses and 'insect hotels' around the city" to increase biodiversity

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CL : The flagship project of Madrid’s quest for biodiversity is centered on the Manzanares River, a modest stream that flows across the ci...
Monday, June 11, 2018

"Using these devices, he says oil companies can squeeze the longest possible oil exploration season into steadily shrinking winters"

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NPR : Oil companies now help support a cottage industry of consultants and product manufacturers in Alaska, all providing workarounds for ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

"A celebrity chef . . . poisoned a neighbor’s giant silver maple tree because it blocked sunlight from the solar panels on his Windsor Terrace home, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office says"

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NYDN : the sprawling, majestic maple — which is more than 60 years old, measures 53 inches in diameter and resides in the backyard of a Se...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

"California is on the verge of making solar standard on virtually every new home built in the Golden State" starting in 2020

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" If approved as expected, solar installations on new homes will skyrocket."
Saturday, April 28, 2018

"Del Mar [California] has decided to include 'managed retreat' as a last-resort option for dealing with sea-level rise, despite widespread objections from homeowners in the tony, seaside enclave"

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SD : The idea is especially controversial in Del Mar, where hundreds of multimillion-dollar homes are built near sea level on the northern...

"Ominous views of Japan's new concrete seawalls"

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Photo gallery .