[posted by Valerie Volcovici on Reuters, January 19, 2018] President Donald Trump’s effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew modestly, according to preliminary government data obtained by Reuters. Trump made reviving the coal industry, and the declining communities that depend upon its jobs, a central tenet in his presidential...

[posted by Shashank Bengali and Ramin Mostaghin on Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2018] In the mountains of western Iran, the province of Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari is known for mile-high lagoons, flowing rivers and wetlands that attract thousands of species of migratory birds. But years of diminishing rainfall have shriveled water sources. Conditions worsened, residents say, after Iranian authorities began funneling water 60 miles away to...

Progetto | Riduco Riuso Riciclo

Il progetto “Riduco Riuso Riciclo: Percorsi di educazione ambientale a contrasto della dispersione scolastica” intende accrescere nella popolazione tutta, ma in special modo tra i giovani, il grado di consapevolezza degli impatti negativi che determinati modelli di vita e sistemi di produzione provocano, attraverso uno sfruttamento irresponsabile delle risorse naturali e l’inquinamento dell’ambiente. L’intervento progettuale prevede...

[posted by Benjamin Haas on The Guardian, January 16, 2018] The Iranian oil tanker Sanchi sank off the coast of Shanghai on Sunday, after a week of burning and sending plumes of smoke hundreds of metres into the air. Only three bodies of the 32 sailors were recovered. The ship was carrying 136,000 tons, or about 1 million barrels, of oil, that now threatens to pollute some of China’s most important fishing waters. What was Sanchi...

[posted on The Conversation, January 9, 2018] The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is one of Earth’s most agriculturally productive regions and is of global importance for its exports of rice, shrimp, and fruit. The 18m inhabitants of this low-lying river delta are also some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change. Over the last ten years around 1.7m people have migrated out of its vast expanse of fields, rivers and canals while...