Where Is Environmental Sky

Officials have surveyed the damage that the Gulf oil spill has caused on animals, and coastal marshes. This has been a disaster where Louisiana has had many birds popping up filled with oil. They have also found nets and new hatchlings coated with this oil.
It is unclear if the birds can be saved let alone [...]

Blue-green algae blooms choked Lake Taihu - China’s third biggest source of freshwater - in May, forcing 5 million people to use bottled water for drinking and bathing.
Soon after, local media were reporting outbreaks across the country. Rancid blooms contaminated Dianchi Lake in southwestern China, then Xinlicheng reservoir, the main source of water for Changchun [...]

It all looks too orderly: a kind of greedy appropriation of the land with all the wild bits appearing as unshaved, rude tufts bristling at the margins of organized systems of fields. This all seems to have a narcissistic quality. This self-satisfied, self-serving landscape, all too willing to barge out the wild and turn it [...]

The Pacific’s storm system plays an important role in the circulation of the Earth’s atmosphere, transporting heat and moisture to the northern latitudes. Renyi Zhang, an atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University, said this weather system had been affected by aerosols - tiny particles of pollution such as soot produced when burning coal.
“Rapid industrialisation and [...]

The potential effects have been compared to those of a large earthquake, after 3,600 people were reported to have died from pollution-related illnesses in four weeks during October and November. The figures were released by officials heading a government programme to cut pollution in Tehran, home to 12 million people.
Emergency services have reported a big [...]