Archive for 2019
Can Qatar and Dubai counter climate change in the Persian Gulf?
The nations in the inhospitable region aren't sitting idly by in the face of climate change.
Scientists shred phone in a blender to show climate costs
They reported 33 grams of iron, 13 grams of silicon and 7 grams of chromium in a standard mobile phone.
Microplastics ‘are everywhere’: in lakes, rivers and seas
Microplastics have permeated water sources globally from rivers right down to the depths of the oceans.
Illegal fishing is driving the last few vaquitas extinct
Critically endangered vaquitas' extinction is "virtually assured" unless conservation efforts are stepped up.
Hong Kong is at the heart of global wildlife trafficking
Between 2013 and 2017, the small Chinese territory seized 43 metric tons of pangolin scales in shipments from abroad.
U.S. group says ‘big’ residents don’t need safer water
Obesity has been cited as the reason why West Virginia doesn’t need higher clean-water standards.