by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2023 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
A Montana judge has canceled an important permit for a new natural gas power plant under construction along the Yellowstone River. The plant is being built by NorthWestern Energy, a company based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It’s expected to cost $250 million,...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 10, 2023 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Salinity in groundwater is a rising concern in coastal India, threatening the drinking water for hundreds of thousands. Kochi is a city of about 600,000 in the Chellanam area of India, on the southwestern coast against the Arabian Sea. Much of the water that provides...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 29, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards
Spain is being warned not to expand irrigation near a valuable and threatened wetland, as the EU threatens to take measures. The Doñana wetlands are a UNESCO world heritage site, one of the key biospheres of Europe. They sit on the coast in the southwest of Spain,...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Columbia University experts are raising their voices about extreme weather, after a too-hot 2022 and wild disasters. According to Radley Horton, a research professor from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, human-induced climate change has raised...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 22, 2023 | Environmental hazards
The train derailment in Ohio should be bigger news than it is, as fish continue to die in a spreading radius around the fire but people are told it’s safe to go home. Late on February 3rd, a freight train belonging to Norfolk Southern derailed in the middle of...
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,...
