Considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world and the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion also called the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, was an explosion that occurred on April 20, 2010, on the BP Exploration & Production-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig located in the GulfContinue reading “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 2010”
Category Archives: Throwback Thursday
THANK YOU
THANK YOU FOR 2020. Spreading the news on environmental sustainability has only been made possible by our readers and supporters. It is our honest hope that we have impacted your sustainable lifestyle in one way or another. We will all continue to try to be better humans for the planet in 2021. Part of thatContinue reading “THANK YOU”
Some of the Most Influential Environmentalists In History.
When it comes to history of environmental thought, any is incomplete without addressing the contributions of these great people. 1) John Muir (1838–1914) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Wisconsin as a young boy. His lifelong passion for hiking began as a young man when he hiked to the Gulf of Mexico. Muir spentContinue reading “Some of the Most Influential Environmentalists In History.”
History Of Oil Spills In The Niger Delta Area of Nigeria
The Department of Petroleum Resources(DPR), Nigeria estimated 1.89 million barrels of petroleum were spilled into the Niger Delta between 1976 and 1996 out of a total of 2.4million barrels spilled in 4,835 incidents. A United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) report stated that there have been a total of 6,817 oil spills between 1976 and 2001. TheContinue reading “History Of Oil Spills In The Niger Delta Area of Nigeria”
THE LOVE CANAL TRAGEDY
Quite simply, Love Canal is one of the most appalling environmental tragedies in history. The cruel irony is that Love Canal was originally meant to be a dream community. Love Canal is a neighbourhood in Niagara Falls named after a large ditch that was dug in the 1890s for hydroelectric power. The ditch was abandonedContinue reading “THE LOVE CANAL TRAGEDY”
Climate change caused this Fijian village to relocate
Fiji has always experienced the worst impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, warmer temperatures, ocean acidification and intensified El Niño patterns. Vunidogoloa was the first Fijian village to feel the impacts of climate change. As early as 2006,floods and erosion die to sea level rise and increased rains had grown stronger, reachingContinue reading “Climate change caused this Fijian village to relocate”
1970s Global Warming Scare: A Cooling Earth
Earth did cool somewhat between 1940-1970 due to a postwar boom in aerosol pollutants which reflected sunlight away from the planet. The idea that sunlight-blocking pollutants could chill Earth caught on in the media, as in a 1974 Time magazine article titled “Another Ice Age?”
Historical events: Anthropogenic climate change, c.1880.
This describes human impact on the earth’s climate. It was put around this time probably because people started becoming more aware and willing to check the effects their actions were having on the environment and stopped thinking of the changes in the climate as “natural”. The first calculations of greenhouse effects was done in 1896.TheContinue reading “Historical events: Anthropogenic climate change, c.1880.”
Environmental Accomplishments since the first Earth Day
From the the first earth day 50 years ago in 1970, there have been many accomplishements recorded by environmental conservation enthusiasts both locally and internationally.
THE MOUNT PINATUBO VOLCANIC ERUPTION 1991
On 15 June at approximately 1:42 p.m. local time, Pinatubo erupted—the largest volcanic blast since Alaska’s Novarupta in 1912. Its ash cloud contained 5 cubic kilometers of material—lofted to 40 kilometers high. Because a passing typhoon simultaneously brought heavy rains, fast moving flows of ash, mud, and volcanic debris called lahars rushed down the volcano,Continue reading “THE MOUNT PINATUBO VOLCANIC ERUPTION 1991”
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