je.st
news
Tag: waste
How San Franciscos Polysterene Ban Fits into its Zero Waste Ambitions
2016-08-08 15:48:00| Waste Age
San Francisco has celebrated many milestonesoften ahead of the rest of the nationsince it set its zero waste goals more than a decade ago read more
Waste of resources is biggest threat to planet, warns Scottish environment agency
2016-08-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scotlands environment agency has warned the countrys industries and farmers that their waste and inefficiency is now the biggest threat to the environment, overtaking pollution. In a marked shift in strategy, the regulators chief executive, Terry AHearn, will urge businesses, farmers and manufacturers to adopt a one planet prosperity policy designed to cut their energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste and resource use. The major threat to the environment now is that humanity is overusing...
Tags: resources
environment
agency
waste
Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Greenland's ice could be released as global temperatures rise
2016-08-06 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of U.S. research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when...
Tags: global
cold
released
rise
How to deal with toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps
2016-08-05 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political. Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly. Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland...
Melting ice may release toxic waste
2016-08-05 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era US military camp deep under Greenlands ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of US research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when the base...
Sites : [530] [531] [532] [533] [534] [535] [536] [537] [538] [539] [540] [541] [542] [543] [544] [545] [546] [547] [548] [549] next »