by Beth Huffington | Jul 26, 2021 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards
The Dixie Fire, started by a tree down on Pacific Gas & Electric power lines in California, has prompted the energy giant to finally bury its high-energy lines in a safety measure long overdue. On July 13, 2021, a tree fell onto an unsecured PG&E power line in...
by Beth Huffington | Jun 14, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest bodies of ice in Antarctica, and one of the most active. It moves as rapidly as 4,000 meters a year (2.49 miles), and together with the Thwaites Ice Stream is the frozen version of a watershed for as much as 5 percent of...
by Beth Huffington | Jun 7, 2021 | Environmental hazards
On May 15, the MV X-Press Pearl departed Hazira, India with a cargo of hazardous chemicals and a belly full of oil. Registered in Singapore, the newly built container ship was bringing its load to ports in Qatar and Dubai. As the ship neared its destination, the crew...
by Beth Huffington | 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 Huffington | 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 Huffington | 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...
