Experimental Efforts to Harvest the Ocean’s Power Face Cost Setbacks
By JOSHUA HUNT and DIANE CARDWELL
The shuttering of an ambitious project is the latest setback for the nascent wave energy sector in the United States.
The disaster at a Pennsylvania plant fueled misgivings about nuclear power, as have those at Chernobyl and Fukushima. But the fossil-fuel alternative still holds great allure.
The shuttering of an ambitious project is the latest setback for the nascent wave energy sector in the United States.
Three years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the government has reopened the evacuated community of Miyakoji. But many do not want to come back.
Environmentalists are pushing to preserve old nuclear reactors whose economic viability is threatened but that produce no greenhouse gases, which could help meet national climate goals.
Over 100 people have been killed and thousands have been left homeless by flash floods in northern and western Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Government protections are helping Asian elephant numbers rise, but forests are rapidly giving way to rubber and other cash crops.
Philanthropic organizations known for lending a helping hand are funneling millions of dollars into the nation’s major national parks.
The population of boobies, known for their brightly colored feet and signature mating dance, has halved, researchers say, though it’s not clear why breeding activity is so low.
The Chinese legislature decided Thursday to revise the country’s environmental protection law to allow for stricter punishments against companies or individuals caught polluting the environment, according to a report by Xinhua, the state news agency.
Scientists say that a long drought that has affected trees in Central Africa could help them understand how global warming may harm vegetation.
By a number of measures, the United States is cleaner than it was on the first Earth Day in 1970.
At the Chernobyl nuclear plant, a rising arch is a sign of a cleanup’s progress, and the remains of Pripyat, a city once home to 45,000, is a reminder of the devastation of 1986.
Even as rescue teams attempted to reach victims of the Mount Everest avalanche, Dawa Yanju, the sister-in-law of a survivor, Dawa Tashi, described what happened.
Washington State officials discussed the mudslide that has killed at least three people.
At least 18 people were missing and 8 were confirmed dead as of late Sunday in Washington State after a huge landslide destroyed homes and buried a state highway.
I went out rowing each morning, unaware that a grand evolutionary experiment was taking place beneath my hull.