by faster | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Moscow Times DATE: October 8, 2020 SNIP: Nearly all seafloor-dwelling life in pollution-hit waters off Russia’s Pacific coast in the Kamchatka region has been wiped out in an unexplained mass death of marine animals, scientists told the region’s governor...
by faster | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: People.com DATE: October 1, 2020 SNIP: A herd of elephants were recently spotted foraging for meals in the middle of a trash dump in Sri Lanka. Photographer Tharmaplan Tilaxan of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, captured a series of snapshots that document the large wild...
by faster | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: CNN DATE: September 28, 2020 SNIP: When Haji Muhammad Abdus Salam looks across the trash-filled river near his home in one of Dhaka’s major garment manufacturing districts, he remembers a time before the factories moved in. “When I was young there...
by faster | Sep 25, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times DATE: September 25, 2020 SNIP: It is five years since the giant trucks hauling ore around the Mountain Pass mine in California’s Mojave desert fell silent. Molycorp, the only major rare earths producer in the U.S., had just collapsed under...
by faster | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: E&E News DATE: September 11, 2020 SNIP: Historic wildfires raging from California to Colorado are weakening watersheds and setting the stage for deadly mudslides and flooding and, in some places, threatening to poison critical water supplies. Fueled by...
