HILO — Two solar projects proposed for Hawaii Island would benefit the environment and residents’ pocketbooks. That’s according to analyses contained in power purchase agreements between Hawaii Electric Light Co. and developers AES and Innergex. The agreements require approval of the state Public Utilities Commission, and the documents were submitted for review Dec. 31, along […]

After several years during which global emissions at least stagnated, they rose again somewhat in 2017 and 2018. Germany has also clearly missed its climate targets. In order to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, only about 1100 gigatonnes of CO2 may be released into the atmosphere by 2050[1]. And In order to limit […]

INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES An international team, released the 2018 ocean heat content observations in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on January 16, 2019. The newly available observations show that the year 2018 is the hottest year ever recorded for the global ocean, as evident in its highest ocean heat content since 1950s in […]

Samples taken from five locations found concentrations of more than 12,000 microplastic particles per litre of sea ice Scientists have found a record amount of plastic trapped in Arctic sea ice, raising concern about the impact on marine life and human health. Up to 12,000 pieces of microplastic particles were found per litre of sea ice in […]

High levels of contamination in Mariana Trench show how pervasively planet has been contaminated The deepest point on Earth is heavily polluted with plastic, scientists have discovered, showing how pervasively the world has been contaminated. The researchers plumbed the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, near Challenger Deep, the lowest place […]

With China refusing foreign waste under its new policy, countries are forced to handle their own plastic pollution As holiday shopping ramps up, so do the dizzying varieties of plastic packaging tossed in recycling bins. And while we wish a Christmas miracle would transform this old garbage into something new, the reality is the waste […]

Contact lens wearers will be able to recycle their lenses for free in a new UK-wide scheme launching this week. Wearers can dispose of their waste at public drop-off points, offered by Boots Opticians and other selected independent stores, or choose to have their old lenses collected. There are 3.7 million soft lens users in […]

HILO, Hawaii  – Big Island Grown says it hopes to open the first medical marijuana dispensary on Hawaii Island this week. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the company aims to open three locations on the Big Island within the next month. The company is one of only two businesses licensed to sell medical marijuana products on the […]

Houston’s petrochemical industry is an economic engine that drives our region’s success. We employ tens of thousands of people in high paying jobs and our products and services are bettering lives around the world. But the global rise in mismanaged plastic waste threatens the many benefits that plastics provide to society, from improved living standards […]

Engineers at the Ocean Cleanup project are working on a fix to stop collected debris leaking back out from the 600m barrier A giant floating barrier launched off the coast of San Francisco as part of a $20m project to cleanup a swirling island of rubbish between California and Hawaii, is failing to collect plastic. The mastermind […]