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...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 27, 2021 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Microplastics in the soil may be becoming a worldwide food chain problem, according to the United Nations. On Tuesday, the United Nations agricultural agency the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) released a report assessing plastic pollution in agricultural...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 20, 2021 | Environmental hazards, Resources, Sustainability
Contaminated groundwater puts thousands at risk as the U.S. Navy refuses to cease operations at a perpetually leaking fuel storage facility on water-poor Oahu. The Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility was built in the middle of WW2, inside the ridge of a dead volcano...
