Venezuelan oil tanker sinks near Trinidad and Tobago
A huge oil tanker containing approximately 1.3 million barrels of crude oil, the FSO Nabarima, a…
Tag: Environment
Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook Puerto Rico on Saturday morning
Puerto Rico – A strong tremor of magnitude 5.4. (readjusted by the USGS) was reported in…
‘Don’t Forget’: Latinos march, rally one week after deadly El Paso shootings
“We thought this was over and it’s still not over,” says a marcher who was…
The face of climate change
World Environment Day was celebrated last week. A fact that until now touched me tangentially. Like…
There is more CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans
That was the reaction of meteorologist Eric Holthaus to news that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels…
At what point do we admit that geoengineering is an option?
In 1883, Krakatoa erupted, spewing volcanic ash and gas into the stratosphere, making clouds more…
Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid 1 Year After Maria
Hurricane Maria, one of the most extreme climatic events of our time which devastated the…