Thursday, 7 March 2019

Environmental headlines - 03/06/2019


Bering Strait ice cover 90 % gone


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Bering Strait ice cover on March 4th is 90% gone after a giant heat dome has been parked over the area for the last week, with daytime highs in the 30s and low 40s F. Climate Reanalyzer has the heat dome hanging-on across the Bering Strait, Northern Alaska, and Northern Canada for another week.

Halfof dead baby turtles found by Australian scientists have stomachsfull of plastic


Study suggests younger reptiles are particularly vulnerable to pollution





Dairy boom has coincided with decline in water quality, leaving two-thirds of rivers unsafe for swimming





Hundreds of billions of litres of water is missing from the Murray-Darling Basin, according to a new report.

An Australian National University (ANU) study claimed the Federal Government had grossly exaggerated the amount of water being returned to the system via water savings.

The recovered water was meant to boost environmental flows




The Facts:A study published early in 2018 identified very high amounts of aluminum lodged in the brains of multiple people with autism.

Reflect On:We know little about where the heavy metals used as adjuvants in vaccines end up in the body. We now know that injected aluminum doesn't exit the body like aluminum intake from other sources. When injected, it ends up in the brain.









Beijing’s move to crack down on waste imports may be part of the ongoing trade war with Washington, RT has been told. Ruptly met with US locals who fear the situation will decimate the environment.

China, the largest buyer of recyclables from the US, banned 24 types of solid waste from being imported and placed tougher restrictions on the ones it continues to accept.

The move left the recycling industry and authorities in a number of US cities struggling with the disposal of plastic, paper and glass trash.

As the result, the trash, instead of being shipped to China, is now taken to landfills or burnt. Locals say it creates pollution, negatively impacting the health of residents


The Tapanuli orangutan was discovered in 2017 and fewer than 800 are believed to exist





Before passing away from heart disease on February 18, climate scientist Wallace Smith Broecker left behind a "final warning" to fellow scientists - telling them in a video recorded days before his death that humanity must deploy a volcano-inspired "solar shield" in order to cool down the atmosphere, according to NBC News.

Broecker, who popularized the phrase "global warming" in 1975 (right as the notion of "global cooling" became unpopular) - warned that world leaders aren't acting quickly enough to halt the production of carbon dioxide, and the only solution is to geoengineer "the sulfur solution



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