The Far-Reaching Consequences of Siberia’s Climate-Change-Driven Wildfires by Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com Higher temperatures and drier surface conditions are providing ideal conditions for these fires to burn and to persist for so long over such a large area,” European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts fire specialist Mark Parrington says in a statement, […]
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled Following Years Of Protests By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. July 7, 2020 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled Following Years Of Protests2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/03/atlantic-coast-pipeline-protest-peoples-hearing-next-door-to-fake-hearing-february-2017-e1554047147736.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protest by FrackFreeNC.org against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Note: Years of work by thousands of front line activists and their allies have resulted in a major […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105443/93/1054439344_0:144:3500:2113_1200x675_80_0_0_5b3460c30d56ca04dcb2f3be07debd30.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007061079813102-us-to-export-lng-from-west-coast-terminal-for-first-time/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Trump administration has greenlighted the first export of liquefied natural gas from the US West Coast, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said in a statement on Monday. “Today’s export authorization for Jordan Cove, the first US West Coast LNG project, […]
Two energy companies behind the controversial 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline slated to run from West Virginia to North Carolina, said they are scrapping the project after it has been on hold for years due to legal challenges. In a joint statement on Sunday, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced that […]
The construction of an Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), to deliver fracked natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia to a North Carolina port, has faced heavy opposition by environmental activist groups since it’s 2014 announcement. Activists also opposed a pipeline tunneling below the famed Appalachian Trail. Two US […]
5 Jul, 2020 19:17 Follow RT on Tehran has built multiple “missile cities,” both ashore and offshore, along its southern coast, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy chief has revealed, calling the facilities a “nightmare” for the country’s enemies. The network includes underground bunkers, as well as offshore floating platforms, Rear Admiral […]
CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA, ITALY—When Italian customs police discovered a modest cache of amphetamines with the logo “Captagon” in a container of counterfeit shirts in the southern port of Salerno a few months ago, they knew they were on to something big. Captagon-branded fenethylline (a variant of amphetamine) is a favorite […]
S&P Global Platts and Argus Media will launch new benchmarks for pricing US crude oil that is being exported to replace the West Texas Intermediate benchmark. WTI serves as a basis, but it is, in fact, linked to oil delivered to the Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub. Reuters reports that oil shipments from […]
A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is arriving along the U.S. Gulf Coast this week after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. The phenomenon happens every year – but the 2020 version is especially large and imposing, experts said. The dust cloud is “quite large” this year, said […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107971/41/1079714155_0:176:3009:1868_1200x675_80_0_0_7fafb79cb30fb29cdbad6dcbcfb4dd73.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006251079714185-five-south-korean-citizens-one-ghanaian-kidnapped-off-beninese-coast/ SEOUL (Sputnik) – Five South Korean citizens and a citizen of Ghana have been kidnapped from a fishing vessel off the Beninese coast, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. According to the ministry, unknown gunmen attacked the Ghanaian-flagged […]
Only a handful of days after successfully returning domestic crew launch capabilities to U.S. soil for the first time since July of 2011, SpaceX is continuing to steam ahead with its 2020 launch campaign as they prepare to loft another batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink internet constellation. The […]
Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named system of the season, developed off the Florida coast on Saturday and is continuing up the East Coast toward the North Carolina coast. The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for parts of North Carolina on Sunday, including the Outer Banks. Heavy […]
The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm watch following the formation of a storm system ahead of the start of hurricane season. Tropical Depression #One Advisory 1: Tropical Depression Forms Off the Coast of East-Central Florida. Tropical Storm Watch Issued For a Portion of the North Carolina Coast. […]
CoinDesk’s Nolan Baurle speaks with the Ethereum Foundation’s Hudson Jameson about private transactions, client improvements, dealing with FUD on Ethereum and more. Listen in to hear more about: CoinDesk Live: Lockdown Edition continues its popular twice-weekly virtual chats with Consensus speakers via Zoom and Twitter, giving you a preview of […]