Year: 2015

This Man Just Completed World’s First Solo Row From California to Australia

This Man Just Completed World’s First Solo Row From California to Australia

British-Canadian adventurer John Beeden completed his 7,400-mile solo row across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday. He is the first to have rowed across the Pacific, from the Northern to Southern Hemisphere, without stopping. After spending almost six months at sea in his 20-foot boat, Beeden set foot on the Australia mainland at 10 a.m Australian […]

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    Watch 25 Years of Arctic Sea Ice Melt in One Minute

    Watch 25 Years of Arctic Sea Ice Melt in One Minute

    Recent social media posts by The Climate Reality Project are featuring the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) one-minute video animation that tracks the relative amount of ice of different ages from 1987 through early November 2014. According to NOAA, decades ago, the majority of the Arctic’s winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial […]

    Superbug Bacteria Resistant to All Antibiotics Found in the UK

    Superbug Bacteria Resistant to All Antibiotics Found in the UK

    Following the discovery in the UK of bacteria that resist the most common antibiotic of last resort, a leading British expert is warning it is “almost too late” to stop a global superbug crisis. News outlets reported Monday that UK government scientists have found a gene, known as mcr-1, that gives bacteria resistance to colistin, […]

    It Wasn’t Only Exxon That Knew About Global Warming Since the 1970s

    It Wasn’t Only Exxon That Knew About Global Warming Since the 1970s

    It wasn’t just Exxon that knew fossil fuels were cooking the planet. New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate. Between […]

    Costa Rica Powers 285 Days of 2015 With 100% Renewable Energy

    Costa Rica Powers 285 Days of 2015 With 100% Renewable Energy

    In March, EcoWatch reported that Costa Rica powered the first 82 days of the year solely with renewable energy. Now that we’re closing in on the end of the year, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) announced that the country ran entirely on renewables for 285 days between Jan. 1 and Dec. 17. Costa Rica generated almost ALL […]

    Yogurt Cups, Food Wrappers and a Shoe Found in Stomach of Dead Orca

    Yogurt Cups, Food Wrappers and a Shoe Found in Stomach of Dead Orca

    This. Keeps. Happening. Another whale has been found dead with plastic trash filling its stomach. This time, a 5.7-meter (about 18-foot) female orca washed up on Plettenberg Bay in South Africa, as News24 reported last week. Marine debris is a major threat to aquatic life. This female orca was found dead in Plettenberg Bay in South Africa with […]