Sixteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over approval of BP’s new massive ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. In March, the administration approved a plan by BP to drill for oil even deeper than the Deepwater … Read more
Kagwell, Kenya — Rhoda Ongoche Akechi still remembers the whispers that followed her to the water in 2002. At 39 years old, the mother of seven was about to break one of Lake Victoria’s oldest taboos: women boarding fishing boats. The now 61-year-old said: “People were claiming that if a woman went into the water … Read more
Kern County, California — Tucked into a green-gold hillside at the base of the San Joaquin Valley, this low midcentury building is the heart of California’s great water system. For more than 50 years, the Edmundston Pumping Station has pumped water nearly 2,000 feet from the towering Tehachapi Mountains, connecting water from Northern California to … Read more
IWhat started with an ad in a local newspaper ended with winning one of the most prestigious environmental awards in the world. Sarah Finch was flipping through local planning notices in 2010 when one page caught her eye. The proposal was to drill for oil at Horse Hill, Surrey, outside Crawley, six miles (10km) from … Read more
As Europe faces the reality of its dependence on fossil fuels, the war against Iran has unexpectedly ignited a race for renewable energy. advertisement advertisement Oil and gas prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks due to Iran’s stranglehold on the 39km-long Strait of Hormuz, which carries about 20% of the world’s oil supplies. Analysts … Read more
Is this how a national plan to reduce climate pollution works? Australian government data released this week shows emissions from Australia’s coal mines rose in the last financial year. Approximately 80% of coal mines were emitting amounts into the atmosphere that exceeded government-imposed limits. The overall increase is relatively small, about 0.5%. But it comes … Read more
Forcing SST Traditional low-resolution sea surface temperature datasets cannot resolve local warming disparities in coastal areas, whereas kilometer-scale resolution data depict land-sea temperature gradients 4). Comparing with observations, we find that SST from BCC-CSM2-MR shows strong consistency with both reanalysis datasets and satellite assimilation data in capturing monthly variations in SST among several CMIP6 GCMs … Read more
IIn his home on a steep hillside in Medellin’s Golondrinas neighborhood, Robinson Velázquez Cartagena stands proudly next to two large water tanks, a rainwater harvesting system he designed and built to reduce the risk of flooding and landslides. This is one of the nature-based solutions that Velázquez and others in the community have proposed as … Read more