A new study revealed that the vast prospective oil spill from a decaying ship stuck in the Red Sea may impair clean water supplies to the equivalent of more than nine million people. The FSO Safer tanker, which carries 1.1 …
Rescue crews are working to control a major oil spill that spewed crude off the Orange County coast on Sunday, October 3, which killed fish and birds and left potential damage to local wetlands. At least 126,000 gallons of crude …
A global assessment released on Tuesday has reported that about 14% of the world’s coral reefs were destroyed between 2009 and 2018 due to dynamite fishing, pollution, and mostly global warming. The report, titled “Status of Coral Reefs of the …
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday has slashed its recommended limits for air pollution to reduce deaths linked to fossil fuel pollution and encourage movement towards clean energy. The new guideline halved the limit for the most damaging pollution …
Scientists from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said that the ozone hole over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica. The ozone layer over Antarctica depletes every year and forms a hole during the Southern Hemisphere’s spring …
Dutch politicians considered forcing hundreds of farmers to cut livestock numbers in an effort to reduce ammonia pollution. The Guardian reported that the finance and agriculture ministry civil servants proposed cutting livestock numbers by 30%. The proposals could mean forcing …
The United States Coast Guard announced on Monday that it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after the destructive hurricane Ida. Members of the National Strike Force aboard a Coast …
A toxic leak from the Catoca Mining Company in Angola has killed twelve people and made 4,400 sick in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Catoca said last week that toxic runoff from the mine had leaked into a river …
A report from the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) published on Wednesday has revealed that air pollution is cutting short the lives of billions of people by up to 5.6 years. The researchers reported that coal burning is the principal …
The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) on Monday announced the official global end of the leaded gasoline era after the last country in the world ended the sale of the highly toxic fuel. The U.N. agency said that the era …