The Ocean Cleanup has deployed its first Interceptor river cleanup solution in the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok – part of a wider partnership to tackle plastic pollution leaking from one the world’s busiest working rivers. Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit that has spearheaded technology that can essentially sweep oceans and waterways, picking up strewn rubbish and extracting it […]
The Canal & River Trust (CRT) will benefit from £2 million funding towards the many climate action and sustainability challenges its historic waterways face across England & Wales, and to support the charity in its contribution to mitigating the impacts of climate change. The funding comes as part of People’s Postcode Lottery’s recently announced Postcode Climate Challenge initiative. The […]
A satellite that will allow UK scientists to measure sea level rise, one of the biggest threats posed by climate change, has been launched on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg, California. The Sentinel-6 satellite, which is the size of a small car, will orbit around the Earth 830 miles above the planet and collect data […]
“We’re told by all the leading scientists in the world we don’t have much time,” Biden has said. “We’re going to pass the point of no return within the next eight to 10 years. Four more years of this man [Trump] will put us in a position where we’ll be in real trouble.” Thankfully for […]
Last week, a NOC Ocean Observatory in the North-East Atlantic was torn from its mooring by high winds and waves associated with the remnants of hurricane Epsilon that struck the UK a few days later. But, after 12 days adrift, the four-tonne, six-metre-tall large observatory buoy was safely recovered thanks to the efforts of the […]