The Norwegian government plans to spend 19bn kroner on restarting the Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma gas fields by the end of 2028, with production continuing until 2048.
Experts from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School will respond to public inquiries with clear, evidence-based answers on various climate-related topics.
The only train station in Houston, the US's fourth-largest city, is a diminished, morose sight, serving a metropolitan area of about 7 million people with just three intercity trains a week.
At least six people have died in heavy rains in northeastern Brazil, with thousands more displaced, according to authorities. The deaths were reported in the Pernambuco and Paraiba states on Saturday, following two days of rain.
About a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through the strait of Hormuz, a strip of sea less than 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, before it was in effect closed by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which sent the price of oil soaring and left an estimated 20,000 seafarers on 2,000 vessels stranded.
I study metals in the ocean-things like iron, zinc, copper, manganese, nickel, cobalt, cadmium, and lead. Just like we need things like iron and zinc and copper in our own diet, phytoplankton, which are the algae that form the base of the food web in the ocean, also need these metals for optimal growth.
Caring about future generations means believing that people who will live decades or centuries from now deserve ethical consideration. This means taking their interests into account when making decisions across a range of issues.
As we destroy the environment, we are destroying ourselves, he told an audience at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, held to address global environmental issues. We are part of the web of life, and what we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
