by Beth Holmes | Feb 13, 2023 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
A sperm whale has been found dead on a beach in Hawaii, its body full of hundreds of pounds of ingested plastic waste. Saturday, January 28th, a 56-foot sperm whale was found deceased on a reef of Kauai. Scientists, who rarely get to study the deep ocean predators,...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 6, 2023 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
Logging roads are banned in the Tongass National Forest as the Biden administration restores protections cut by former President Trump. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in America, and has been the center of decades of fighting...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 30, 2023 | Green Energy
The Fukushima water release will follow international safety standards, attests a United Nations nuclear agency. The plan is to release treated radioactive cooling water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, probably beginning this spring or summer....
by Beth Holmes | Jan 23, 2023 | Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards
The Fortistar power plant in upstate New York has been taken over by a cryptocurrency mining company, and environmental activists are suing to stop it. Digihost describes themselves as a Blockchain Technology Company with a focus on Bitcoin mining. “Our...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 16, 2023 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
NOAA counted 18 distinct climate extremes in the United States in 2022, costing Americans over $165 billion and killing at least 474 people. 2022 wasn’t the hottest year on record (that was 2020), or the wettest (2018), but it was among the wildest. Eighteen...