by Beth Holmes | Jul 5, 2021 | Conservation
Ecocide may soon become the fifth core international crime, after an international panel of lawyers reveals a statute definition of the word. Currently, there are four core international crimes, which are defined and dealt with by the Rome Statute for the...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 21, 2021 | Conservation
The Ayalon Cave in central Israel was cut off from the surface for an estimated 5 million years before a bulldozer excavating a quarry in 2006 broke into one of its 1.7 miles of skinny tunnels. Originally over 320 feet below the surface, the lime quarry had already...
by Beth Holmes | May 31, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Ghost nets haunt the Hawaiian shores, a seemingly insurmountable problem, but researchers from Hawaii Pacific University are taking a close look at where they came from. The Hawaiian islands lie between two massive repositories of floating waste – the Great Pacific...
by Beth Holmes | May 24, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Mining, especially for valuable metals like copper, gold, silver, lead, and zinc, is a sizeable chunk of Peru’s economy. In 2019, mined goods accounted for just over 60 percent of Peru’s exports, generating 1.8 million jobs and almost $30 billion,...
by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
Seven percent of all renewable fresh water in the world is in Canada, twenty percent if you include sources considered non-renewable like glaciers and underground aquifers. For scale, Canada has about half of one percent of the world’s population. So there is...
by Beth Holmes | May 10, 2021 | Conservation
The Duck River, which flows from Normandy Lake through central Tennessee to the Tennessee River, is the most biodiverse river in North America, with over 151 species of native fish and 55 species of mussel. Eight of those species exist nowhere else on Earth, making...
