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Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste
A network of tunnels under the snow contained everything from research facilities to a hospital, a cinema and a church — all powered by a small, portable nuclear reactor. The pollutants left behind include PCBs used in ...
- September 27, 2016
Choking air, melting glaciers changing India
India’s landscapes are changing – from the melt in the Himalayas, to the increasingly arid farm belts in the middle and the stunning coasts where fishermen talk of rising, warmer seas eroding their shores. “Changes in sea ...
- November 18, 2015
3 dead after smuggling boat capsizes off California
An overcrowded smuggling boat capsized Sunday off the California coast after crashing into the shoreline, killing three people and leaving 27 people hospitalized with a range of injuries, authorities said. The accident ...
- May 4, 2021
Swimmer dies in New Caledonia shark attack
A 57-year-old man has died after a shark attack off an island in New Caledonia on Sunday, officials said. The amateur yachtsman was swimming near his moored boat off Maitre islet in the French Pacific territory when the ...
- March 1, 2021
Texas bears brunt of US plastic pollution
Former shrimper Diane Wilson watches in disgust as a Taiwan-owned factory in Texas spews millions of plastic pellets into the Matagorda Bay. For years Wilson has been documenting this pollution by Formosa Plastics Group, ...
- December 6, 2021
14M tons of wastes litter ocean floor - study
A boat’s crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan’s Izu Peninsula, but not to catch fish — they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution’s impact on marine life. Tiny floating ...
- October 26, 2021
Global warming threatens jewels of nature and civilization
A warming climate is one of the principal menaces to the dazzling, 2,300-kilometer coral reef system off the coast of northeastern Australia known as the Great Barrier Reef. Home to thousands of species of fish and other ...
- December 10, 2015
Red sea reefs offer last refuge for corals
Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere, researchers say. Most shallow water ...
- October 11, 2022
PH, China to craft sea row mechanism
The Philippines and China have agreed to set up a mechanism on how to “properly handle” maritime disputes and representatives from both countries will meet in May to craft a bilateral scheme, Malacañang said on Tuesday. ...
- March 29, 2017
Japan begins whale hunt
Japan was facing mounting condemnation Tuesday over its decision to resume killing whales in Antartica, with conservationists saying it was open to another legal challenge. Australia and New Zealand have led criticism of ...
- December 2, 2015