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Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill
By Benjamin Seidman
BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a [...]
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Offshore Winds Blow Everywhere
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – “Offshore wind has the biggest growth potential of any renewable energy technology, but the policy environment needs to improve rapidly for offshore wind [...]
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NASA Chief: Bold Climate Action Needed to Safeguard Humanity
NEW YORK, New York January 17, 2022 (ENS) – “Science leaves no room for doubt: Climate change is the existential threat of our time,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
“Eight [...]
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World’s Most Daunting Ocean Project: Mapping Entire Seafloor
By Benjamin Seidman
TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken [...]
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MAINE: Lobstermen, Conservationists Sue Over Right Whale Rule
AUGUSTA, Maine, October 16, 2021 (ENS) – The Maine Lobstermen’s Association is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service, NMFS, and the Secretary of Commerce in a challenge to the agency’s [...]
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Hot, Hotter, Hottest July on Record
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 13, 2021 (ENS) – July 2021 was the hottest month ever documented on this planet since recordkeeping began 142 years ago, according to new global data [...]
Air/Climate
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Hits Four Million Year High
MAUNA LOA, Hawaii, June 7, 2021 (ENS) – Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average [...]
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NOAA Triples Gulf of Mexico Marine Sanctuary Area
GALVESTON, Texas, January 22, 2021 (ENS) – One of the last acts of the outgoing Trump administration was taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, which has [...]
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Dangerous 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 21, 2020 (ENS) – There is a 60 percent chance of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with three to six major hurricanes, forecasters [...]