The governor of Ohio warned residents living near the site of a toxic train derailment to drink bottled water Wednesday, as authorities investigate potential environmental fallout from the accident earlier this month.. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine told CNN that while air quality in the town of East Palestine where the wreck occurred was "safe," residents should not yet drink the water out of an abundance of caution.
Dropped over their target by drone, dozens of tiny wooden "robots" twirl through the air in a balletic freefall before hitting the ground, where the work begins for these experimental self-burying seeds on an aerial replanting mission.. "We wanted to design and engineer a self-burying system for aerial seeding that works robustly on both flat and rough terrains," said Lining Yao of Carnegie Mellon University, co-author on the study, published in the journal Nature.
Urban planners are fending off abuse fuelled by conspiracy theories about their "15-minute city" regeneration projects which suspicious social media users claim are the road to "climate lockdowns".. Social media users shared an article that falsely claimed residents would be "confined to their local neighbourhood and have to ask permission to leave it, all to 'save the planet'."
It was once the source of Athens' fabulous golden-age wealth before its hillsides were blackened by fire after fire and scandalously torched by a foreign mining company.. In the fifth century BC, Lavrio was home to the silver mines that made Athens a superpower of the ancient world.
Two decades after the local coal mine closed, residents in a southern Polish town live in fear that the ground will collapse under their feet after 20 sinkholes appeared in the past two years.. - Flooded tunnels - The local mine, which closed in 2001, was turned into a museum.
Twelve years after a nuclear catastrophe triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeast Japan are preparing to release treated wastewater into the sea.. "I don't think the fisheries of Fukushima will truly recover until the day the nuclear plant shuts down," Ishibashi said. oh/sah/kaf/aha
The pufferfish filling nets in Fukushima are a delicacy that can kill if wrongly prepared.. Kanno says the delicacy "is delicious and can be served at a good price".
Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world's first cities.. "We hope to be able to characterise the neighbourhoods and the kinds of occupation... of the people that lived in this big city who were not the elite," she added.
Many major global firms and financial institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to deforestation do not have any policies in place to protect forests, increasing the risk for catastrophic nature loss, a report said Wednesday.. "While there have been pockets of progress, the majority of companies and financial institutions are living on borrowed time, putting climate and nature goals at risk," Global Canopy director Niki Mardas said.
A major French mental health study has found a huge rise in the number of young people reporting depression, with the most likely cause seen as Covid-19 and restrictions to control the disease. . "The stress caused by the Covid-19 disease and the restrictions imposed to control it appear to be one of the main hypotheses to explain this rise," Public Health France said on its website.
