by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The megadrought in the American West is the worst in at least 1200 years, according to a recent study by UCLA researchers, and human-led climate change is a key part of it. Park Williams, a climate hydrologist at UCLA, has been studying the history of soil hydration...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
San Javier de Cachaví, a small village in Ecuador, is being choked by oil palm trees, and now the courts want them to pay the plantation owners thousands for protesting the damage. San Javier de Cachaví is small, only about 120 families in a little community along a...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 31, 2022 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The Gulf of Thailand is the site of the world’s latest significant oil spill, with as much as 128 tons of crude oil leaking from a seabed pipeline. The leak came from the pipeline of a mooring station in the Gulf of Thailand, not far south of Bangkok. Pipeline...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 24, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Greenland has effectively banned all future exploration for oil or gas in their territories, putting climate concerns above investments. In April 2021, Greenland elected their Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party to lead their parliament, ousting the incumbent Siumut party....
by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Turkmenistan may extinguish the “Gates of Hell,” a 50-year fire ignited in a collapsed gas-drilling well. In 1971, an oil survey discovered a natural gas pocket in the middle of the Karakum Desert, near the village of Darvaza in Turkmenistan. Part of the Soviet Union...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Patagonia is the end of the world, if anyplace is, and it’s burning. Perched at the very southernmost tip of South America, the mountainous, fjord-crossed region is an inhabited wilderness. Almost 2 million people live there, on either side of the border between...
