One of the largest oil spills in Russian history was reported at the end of last month. A fuel tank collapsed at a power plant in the city of Norilsk located above the Arctic Circle in Russia’s far north in the Siberian tundra.
Environment
A recent study described Jakarta as one of the cities threatened by rising sea levels due to climate change. Extreme weather, intense groundwater extraction and the destruction of mangroves are among the reasons of Indonesia areas sinking.
Locusts are a species of short-horned grasshoppers which usually exhibit solitary behaviours. However, under certain circumstances, they could change their structural features and behaviour to function as a crowd.
The world’s biggest rainforest and river basin on the planet is facing multiple threats that need intervention to prevent ecological disaster.
The water has warmed up enough for algae to bloom in Antarctica and the green snow is likely to spread as the global temperatures increase.
A third of the world’s population could be living in areas as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara in the next 50years- Study says.
Clim8 Invest app – due to launch this summer- exceeded public crowdfunding target by three times during pre-launch, reaching £1.35m. With over 5,000 people on a waitlist, crowdfunding from 1200 investors, the app focuses on green businesses.
India faced a new tragedy of toxic gas leak from the LG polymer plant in Visagapattinam, Andra Pradesh on Thursday (May 7th). Several people were found unconscious on streets and the incident killed 11 including a child, more than 800 were hospitalized.
Iceberg A-68 size has visibly decreased over the past few years. In 2020 a chunk of ice broke from the iceberg, measuring 175 square kilometres and this footage was taken by the European Space Agency’s satellite called Sentinel-1.
Kiribati, an island republic in the South Pacific, is sinking under the sea. The indigenous inhabitants feel the world has forgotten about them or simply does not seem to care about their lives.