by Lucia Mati | Feb 20, 2021 | Earth, World
Macron with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, former Vice-President Al Gore, Ambassador Jane Hartley and actor Robert Redford at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, 7 December 2015. The US has returned just 107 days after the country withdrew from the...
by Lucia Mati | Feb 14, 2021 | Earth, World
Dose rates for locations in Fukushima Prefecture and neighboring prefectures. * Iitate, Fukushima * Minamisōma, Fukushima * Iwaki, Fukushima * Tamura, Fukushima. A strong quake hit eastern Japan on Saturday, injuring dozens of people and setting off large-scale power...
by Ondrej Perlinger | Feb 1, 2021 | Earth, World
Supreme Court of the Netherlands, The Hague. In a victory for environmentalists and Nigerians with oil-smuggling contaminations on their land, the Court of Appeal in The Hague held Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary liable for two leaks that spewed oil over an area...
by Lucia Mati | Jan 26, 2021 | Earth, World
People celebrate in the streets near the White House after the major networks project Biden the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. President Joe Biden will announce a sweeping embargo on new oil and gas leases on US soil as his administration rapidly...
by Lucia Mati | Jan 18, 2021 | Earth, World
2019 Ambon earthquake – 2019 09 25 Kairatu, Indonesia M 6.5 earthquake shakemap (USGS). At least 78 people were reported killed after an earthquake rattled Indonesia’s west Sulawesi province on Friday, the Indonesian Rescue and Search Agency (Basarnas)...
by Lucia Mati | Jan 18, 2021 | Earth, World
The 5.0-magnitude aftershock in the West Sulawesi districts of Mamuju and Majene came one day after the 6.2-magnitude quake that rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Saturday that forced rescue workers to search for those trapped underneath debris after the...