Dozens of environmental groups submitted a letter to federal energy officials Friday pleading with them to deny funding to a New Jersey company seeking to reopen a nuclear plant in western Michigan. In a letter Friday to US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Department of Energy officials, the groups argued that the Palisades power plant … Read more
The cost of decommissioning nuclear waste in the UK in the 20th century could rise to £260 billion as old and degraded sites present increasing challenges, according to an analysis provided to an international group of experts. As the government pursues nuclear power with the promise of a new generation of reactors, the cost of … Read more
A worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of radioactive water storage tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) in Okuma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toro Hanai Register now to get free unlimited access to Reuters.com Register UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The … Read more
We were there last Thursday, the two of us, in clean clothes, standing in a river, standing in a river, and here we are all dressed up nicely. On the river bank was a three-person camera crew who recorded everything. This is all part of a six-part series film project on the environment, agriculture and … Read more
The founder of the UK’s first hydraulic fracturing company has warned that UK hydraulic fracturing operations are impossible on any meaningful scale and will not help the energy price crisis. Chris Cornelius, the geologist who founded Quadrilla Resources, which drilled the UK’s first modern hydraulic fracturing well in Lancashire, told The Guardian he believes the … Read more
The study warns that the Pine Island ice shelf in Antarctica is more vulnerable than previously thought — and could cause the global sea level to rise by 1.6 feet if it collapses. Pine Island ice shelf traps enough ice to raise sea level by 1.6 feet He could be more prone to complete disintegration … Read more
THere’s a worrisome farewell tone to many of the conversations I have with winemakers these days. Time and time again, I was told that it was impossible, in many if not most years, to make wine the way they used to. Crop-destroying weather events, considered extremely severe only a decade ago, are now expected. Every … Read more
It’s an ant world, and we’re just visiting. The new estimate brings the total number of ants burrowing and roaming on Earth to nearly 20 quadrillion individuals. That staggering amount – 20,000,000,000,000 or 20,000 trillion – reveals an astonishing omnipresent ant population even as scientists grow increasingly concerned about the prospect of a mass insect … Read more
president natural england The head of England’s largest landowners’ organisation, is due to meet the new environment minister to urge him not to give up or ease up on rebuilding schemes. Tony Juniper, who will meet with Ranil Jayawardena with CLA President Mark Tofnell on Tuesday, noted that swaths of prime land were being used … Read more
Working in the British Columbia Whale Conservation Unit at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is not your normal day job. The crew has been patrolling the Salish Sea by boat for four years, trying to keep humans away from the whales. “We want to give them as much protection as possible,” said Derek Chung, chief … Read more
