Three tank cars have leaked an estimated 35,000 gallons of oil after a train hauling crude from North Dakota derailed near Culbertson in northeastern Montana, the latest in a series of recent wrecks raising concerns across the U.S. and Canada, authorities said Friday.
Oil has been found in waters off Cape Upstart, near the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland authorities have confirmed, after earlier reports of a larger spill prompted a search.
In June 2013, a fisherman reeled in a 1,300-pound female mako shark off Huntington Beach. The shark, according to the paper, had levels of DDT, PCBs and mercury hundreds of times higher than the legal seafood limit – toxins it collected by feeding in Southern California waters.
This past June was the warmest globally in a record stretching back to 1891. That’s the verdict from the Japan Meteorological Agency, which issued its latest monthly report on global temperatures.
Without shale gas, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be higher, our climate policies would be weaker, and the odds of slashing future carbon dioxide emissions and meeting U.S. climate goals would be greatly reduced.
The Arctic ice is melting faster than ever recorded, the warmth tied to the emissions of modern life. But it is the ancient ways at the top of the world that are most at risk.
An agency that oversees the safety of the nation’s pipelines has failed to follow through on congressional reforms that could have made a difference in a May break that created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years, a House committee chairman said Tuesday.
Several other recent studies of a possible solar minimum have concluded that whatever climate effects the phenomenon may have will be dwarfed by the warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
You may have heard that the world could be in for 20 feet of sea level rise even if it meets its climate goal of keeping warming below 2°C.
That rise would vastly reshape coastlines around the world. Specifically, 444,000 square miles of land that’s home to more than 375 million people today will be swallowed up by the oceans. To really understand that, photos do the trick.
If you see someone driving a convertible with the top down on the freeway this summer, you might shout a question at them above the roar of traffic: How’s your health insurance policy?
