Earlier today, four ships from Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research returned to their home port after a "scientific" expedition to the Antarctic region. The fleet claims to have captured 333 minke whales ,including pregnant females, in blatant disregard of an international ruling.
Writer Douglas Fox and photographer Carolyn Van Houten are spending 15 days aboard the M.V. Ortelius, docked here at the Port of Ushuaia on March 10, 2016, to join scientists conducting studies of humpback and minke whales in the glacial fjords along the Antarctic Peninsula.
One in four deaths worldwide are due to environmental factors like air, water and soil pollution, as well as unsafe roads and workplace stress, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
As the effects of climate change really kick in, it won't be the adults alive now who will have to deal with the consequences,it will be their children. Considering the burden that they will have to bear, you might hope that they will be given the full facts about climate change and its causes. But a worrying report has found that many teachers in the U.S. are failing their students.
A health crisis mounts as two million tons of trash spill into the streets, creating what people have begun to call a ‘river of trash‘ that flows through the city, spewing garbage and toxins into the once-beautiful area.
