A quick digest of recent environmental news stories from around the world
We need more people like this! 19 year old Parker Liautaud
from California went to the South Pole to raise awareness about climate change.
He battled a chest infection, a swollen ankle and frostbite. Each morning of
the journey he and his teammate (a veteran polar explorer) hosted a live
webcast where climate expert and
sceptics debated climate change.
The Australian government has begun its shark culling
project, citing recent fatal shark attacks. This is despite thousands of people
protesting on beaches, wanting to protect the sharks. The government even issued
a special exemption to an environmental law in order to allow a protected
species to be culled. Environmentalists said there is no evidence that the
culling will reduce shark attacks.
A tank owned by Freedom Industries containing toxic
chemicals leaked into a river in West Virginia leaving hundreds of thousands of
people without access to tap water earlier this month. They could not drink,
wash or cook with the tap water. Worse, the damage was actually considerably
worse than the company first admitted.
Emergency bottled water was shipped in. The quantity and exact type of
chemicals that were spilled are still unknown.
Many TV news shows globally give very little coverage to
climate change, despite overwhelming evidence that it is happening and caused by
humans. In the US a new study showed that climate change got a total of 27
minutes of coverage, by all stations, for the whole of 2013.
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