What can you buy with $13 million? If you're Coca-Cola, you can buy enough influence with the National Parks Service to cancel plans to make the Grand Canyon more environmentally friendly. Plastic water bottles are the biggest single source of garbage in America's most iconic national park. ... Read more...
In the Andaman Sea off the coast of Indonesia, a massive amount of coral has undergone severe bleaching because the waters have heated up to 93 degrees. New data suggests rising water temperatures in the region have been caused by global warming. In May, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) ... Read more...
Admiralty Law - (also referred to as maritime law) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. It is a body of both domestic law governing maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between private entities which operate vessels o... Read more...
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on Thursday declared a state of emergency due to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that threatens the state's fragile coast. The declaration issued by the governor's office in the capital city of Baton Rouge empowers officials here to deploy state reso... Read more...
Like the vast forests of the world, which continually suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, the planet's oceans serve as vital carbon sinks. Last year the oceans absorbed as much as 2.3 billion tons of carbon, or about one-fourth of all manmade carbon emissions. Without the a... Read more...