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During the 1950s and ’60s the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear bombs in or near the Marshall Islands. After that they also used the same islands to test out biological weapons. After that they took the irradiated soil and dumped it into a crater that was formed by a nuclear blast. To put it in easy-to-understand […]
Things are not looking good. A new U.N. climate special report explains how the Earth’s oceans and ice sheets have changed and how these changes will negatively impact the world. More than 100 scientists from 36 nations cited over 6,900 studies in their dispatch, called the “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing […]
The U.S. Coast Guard is still in search of four people who remain unaccounted for after the Golden Ray, a 656-foot cargo ship with 23 crew members and a pilot onboard, was overturned Sunday morning, CNN reports. Authorities were notified at about 2 a.m. that the ship was “listing heavy” to its left side as it […]
Conflicting information was released early Monday regarding a burning dive boat incident near Santa Cruz Island in Southern California. The Ventura County Fire Department, per regional outlet KTLA, reportedly said that 34 people had died due to the blaze. The U.S. Coast Guard, meanwhile, has not echoed that statement and—at the time of this writing—had […]
Three people were killed after a cliff collapsed close to San Diego, CNN reports. On Friday, authorities in Encinitas, California responded to reports of the catastrophe near Grandview Beach. According to Encinitas Fire Chief Mike Stein, the collapse left 20 yards of debris on the beach and visitors were “recreating right underneath the bluffs” when the event […]
The Canadian Senate passed legislation that would ban the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity throughout the country, according to the CBC. The newly passed bill — dubbed the “Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act” — will make it illegal to import, export keep or breed whales, dolphins and porpoises. It will […]
On Saturday, a luxury outing turned into a terrifying ordeal after passengers had to be rescued by helicopter from a malfunctioning cruise ship. According to reports, the Viking Sky cruise ship lost power to its engines due to inclement weather. The vessel, as well as its more than 1,300 passengers and crew members, were stranded off […]
A Philippines museum says that this past Saturday they found 88 pounds of plastic inside the stomach of a dead beaked whale. The 15-foot long creature was discovered off the coast of the country’s Mabini, Compostela Valley: A young Cuvier’s beaked whale washed up in the Philippines with a gut as hard as a […]
