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 | 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 Holmes | 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 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,...
