In the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 we have found oil slicks and debris everywhere - none of it connected to the missing plane, writes Paul Mobbs. The seas are littered with human trash, and it's killing the oceanic ecosystem.
… What MH370 told us - the oceans are awash with trash Paul Mobbs | 5th April 2014 Comment Waste Oceans Transport ocean-rubbish-2.png In the search for Malaysia …
The Arctic is a special place, teeming with life, but it is under threat like never before, writes Robert Spicer - not just from climate change, but from oil drilling, industrial fishing and shipping, as receding ice creates now commercial opportunities. We must designate an Arctic Sanctuary where nature can reign undisturbed.
… Spicer | 17th November 2014 Comment Arctoc Oceans Ecology Climate Change Transport … a reminder of the uniqueness of the Arctic Ocean. I was struck by the vastness of the … it would take centuries to make the Arctic Ocean ice-free in summer. It now looks like …
The 2011 Fukushima catastrophe is an ongoing disaster whose end only gets more remote as time passes. The government is desperate to get evacuees back into their homes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the problems on the ground, and in the breached reactor vessels, are only getting more serious and costly, as unbelievable volumes of radiation contaminate land, air and ocean.
… of radiation contaminate land, air and ocean. Six years after the catastrophe at … still leaking continuously into the Pacific ocean, and partially decontaminated water is being dumped into the ocean. All available information and figures …
As the Arctic warms and its ice melts, growing numbers freight ships are reaping big savings from the 'Arctic short cut'. But this is creating a huge risk of invasive species spreading in ballast water and on hulls - disrupting both Arctic and temperate ecosystems.
… Geiling Smithsonian | 27th June 2014 News Oceans Transport Natural World Ecology … route that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans above Canada. It arrived off the coast … recently, ships that wanted to travel between oceans had two primary paths-the Suez Canal …
Two and a half years on from the tsunami that caused several reactors to meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo and we are still in the dark about the true extent of the danger to human life and ecosystems writes Lynn Batten......
… into groundwater, rivers, and the Pacific Ocean. Two and a half years on from the … and has been finding its way into the Pacific Ocean. This is an unquantifiable ecological … the contaminated water was leaking into the ocean, public confidence in the edicts of the …
International polling today revealed strong public support for a formally protected area in the High Arctic for mammals and other marine life. The weakest support came from Japan, where opinion was evenly split over the industrialization of the Arctic.
… with 80%. Currently only 1.5% of the Arctic Ocean is protected - less than any of the world's oceans. In the past two months, more than 900 … in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole." The biggest …
Koide Hiroaki has spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer, and has become a central figure in Japan's movement for the abolition of nuclear power plants. He met with Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai to discuss the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daaichi in March 2011, and the crimes and cover-ups committed both before and after the event.
… cesium-137 [Cs-137 or 137Cs]. The ocean is largely contaminated with … amount of Cs-137 released in the air and the ocean together, we get an estimate several … has been leaking from Fukushima into the ocean, so it will eventually reach the United …
'If you could mine salt from their grief and tears, Slovyansk would be a leader of salt-making.'
… for breath like fish beached by a powerful ocean wave. It is hard to tell if this is … and imagined himself roaming the bottom of an ocean that used to exist “an astronomical … present-day Donetsk region, but a sea, not an ocean. It was this sea that left behind salt …
The Port of Seattle is violating its shoreline permit in allowing Shell to set up a 'home port' for its Arctic oil drilling fleet, according to Seattle officials. The finding could nix Shell's oil drilling plans for the 2015 season.
… Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean received what may prove a fatal blow … operations." Shell's disastrous 2012 Arctic Ocean drilling and transport operations … during its efforts to drill in the Arctic Ocean that year. In December 2014, one Shell …
Four years ago today the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl took place at Fukushima, Japan. Total clean-up costs are estimated around $0.5 trillion, writes Jim Green - but work to defuse the dangers has barely begun, the site is flooded with radioactive water making its way to the sea, and underpaid and illegally contracted workers are suffering a rising toll of death and injury.
… a fresh leak of radioactive water to the ocean. The sensors, rigged to a gutter that … that it had failed to disclose leaks to the ocean of highly contaminated rainwater from a … is immeasurable." Fishing industry and ocean dumping A Fisheries Agency survey …
Peru's Congress may soon approve a road through remote rainforest which is home to the country's last uncontacted tribes. The link to the Inter-Oceanic highway would open the area up to land grabs, wood cutting and gold mining, and expose vulnerable indigenous people to diseases to which they have no immunity.
… uncontacted tribes. The link to the Inter-Oceanic highway would open the area up to land … will connect Puerto Esperanza to the Inter-Oceanic Highway, which runs through Peru and …
The Hinkley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, its taxpayers and energy users, writes Oliver Tickell. We will be locked into a punitively high electricity price, index-linked, from 2025 until 2060, and the cumulative cost of this one nuclear power station will be well in excess of £100 billion, or around £1 billion per year in today's money.
… Nuclear UK Renewables Energy Finance Politics Oceans 1609.jpg The Hinkley deal is a … movement under the Irish Sea or Atlantic Ocean. There may not be another tsunami in the … in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. COMMENT Nuclear assault on the poor, …
It's time for UK citizens to #takebackREALcontrol by challenging the anti-democratic powers that control our country, our economy and our lives, retiring Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett told her party conference this weekend in this barnstorming speech. And that's a challenge only the Greens are prepared to take on.
… Comment Politics UK Climate Change Pollution Oceans Transport Society Green Economy … far beyond climate change: plastics in the oceans, destruction of our soils, biodiversity …
As England chokes in Level 10 smog, Rob MacKenzie says we shouldn't worry too much about headline-grabbing sand from the Sahara. Far more insidious and damaging to health are the fumes from our own cars and lorries.
… sand is the most benign - and fertilises the oceans The Saharan dust particles, being big …
We need a renewable energy revolution, an end to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean air to breathe, and massive investment in public transport. Is there anything not to like?
… that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean … more broadly. Equally we must protect our oceans, tackling water pollutions and …
A huge march of over 20,000 people including local farmers last weekend marked the biggest protest yet against a new international airport in France's Loire Valley. The peaceful occupation of a bridge was later attacked by riot police with tear gas and water cannon.
… had already been agreed. According to Ocean Presse, brief negotiations between … , he said in a statement as reported by Ocean Presse. "I ask the State to take all …
As worldwide stocks of plutonium increase, lightly-armed British ships are about to carry an initial 330kg of the nuclear bomb metal for 'safekeeping' in the US, writes Paul Brown. But it's only the tip of a global 'plutonium mountain' of hundreds of tonnes nuclear power's most hazardous waste product.
… News Nuclear WMD US UK Japan Korea Transport Oceans pacific-egret-cut.jpg As worldwide …
Tidal lagoons could generate 8% of the UK's electricity, writes Stephen Tindale, and go on doing so for 120 years to come. With the Hinkley C nuclear project looking ever more dicey, and with promises to shut down coal fired generation by 2025, a promised new tidal lagoon In Swansea Bay would come in very useful. So why hasn't the government included it in the Energy Bill?
… 2016 Comment Energy Renewables Tidal UK Wales Oceans Politics Nuclear tlsb visitor …
A massive decontamination exercise is under way in Iitate Village near Fukushima, writes Kendra Ulrich: step one in a plan to force 6,000 residents back into the evacuated zone in 2017. But as radiation levels remain stubbornly high, it looks like the real plan is to 'normalize' nuclear catastrophe, while making Iitate residents nuclear victims twice over - and this time, it's deliberate.
… releases were carried out to the Pacific Ocean by the prevailing winds at that time of …
The world is in the grip of a massive wave of militarism of which most of us are blissfully ignorant, writes John Pilger. When did mainstream media last tell you about the US's $1 trillion nuclear weapon renewal? NATO's massive build up of military power on Russia's eastern frontier? The encirclement of China by nuclear-armed US bases? The world is at war. Pass it on!
… of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have …
The 1865 Treaty of Point Elliot is clear, writes Jan Hasselman: the Lummi Nation has the right to fish, hunt and gather in their accustomed places in perpetuity - and they can't do that if a gigantic coal terminal is built in the Salish Sea's most productive waters. First Nations' treaty rights are now central to protecting the Pacific Northwest from destruction by fossil fuels.
… Peoples Fossil Fuels Coal Transport Oceans Law USA Canada …
This week, the International Maritime Organisation could act to curb fast-rising emissions from shipping under the Paris Agreement, write Barry Gardiner & Richard Burden. But there are growing fears that the UK government may seek to delay and obstruct vital progress.
… Climate Change Emissions COP21 Transport Oceans Regulation container-ship-cut.jpg This …
Two heavily armed, UK registered ships are currently engaged in the transport of UK sourced plutonium across the Pacific, writes Tim Deere-Jones. Details of their safety inspection records, survey status, voyage routes and location have been suppressed in the interests of security but the lack of transparency breaches a number of international safety standards.
… March 2016 Activism Nuclear Law Transport Oceans 8620270578_d74919ef82_o (1).jpg Two …