Tag: Environment
‘Trump’s promises are empty’: energy experts lay waste to proposals
From making coal great again to cancelling the Paris accord, industry analysts say his ideas are farfetched and his talk of climate change as a hoax is dangerous. Donald Trump’s energy agenda which includes pledges of complete energy independence, making coal great again and ditching the Paris climate deal is drawing bipartisan fire from industry […]
The government wants more offshore fish farms, but no one is biting
The US imports about 91% of its seafood, half of which is farmed in aquaculture facilities. Should the US do more to kickstart its own industry? Off the coast of San Diego, Americas eighth largest city, commercial fishermen harvest about 1,100 metric tons of seafood from the Pacific every year. That sounds like a lot. […]
Baby lobsters in hot water as ocean temperatures rise
A new study by scientists in Maine found that if global warming trends continue, lobsters will struggle to survive by the year 2100. Baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the oceans waters if the ocean continues to warm at the expected rate. That is the key finding of a study performed by […]
The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
Experts say human impact on Earth is so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken. Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch the Anthropocene needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented the recommendation to […]
How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life
After 25 years, the decision to site the National Forest amid derelict coal and quarry workings has borne spectacular fruit Twenty-five years ago, the Midlands villages of Moira, Donisthorpe and Overseal overlooked a gruesome landscape. The communities were surrounded by opencast mines, old clay quarries, spoil heaps, derelict coal workings, polluted waterways and all the […]