Month: January 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week on a couple of cases that could completely upend the way federal agencies regulate just about anything in the US. At question is a legal doctrine called Chevron deference that allows federal agencies to interpret laws meant to protect consumers, public health, and the environment. Now, a…

New research suggests that bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed and releases 55-60% of this carbon into the atmosphere within nine years.This amount of carbon is nearly double the annual emissions from the combustion of fuel by the entire global fishing fleet of about 4 million vessels, the study suggests.The…

Oil spillage in Niger DeltaStakeholders led by the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) have visited Foropa, a fishing settlement along the Atlantic coastline in Bayelsa to assess the impact mystery spill reported on Jan. 3.The mystery spills refer to crude oil leaks from unknown sources where there are many oil firms operating…

An image of lava reaching the Icelandic town of Grindavík on Jan. 17, 2024. It was imaged by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite. (Image credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) A tiny town in Iceland stands on the brink of a lava flow, in new images visible from…

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Bottom trawling involves dragging weighted nets across the seafloorNarisaFotoSS/Shutterstoc​k Bottom trawling releases around 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, according to the first study to estimate these emissions. That is nearly 1 per cent of all global CO2 emissions, a major contribution that has been overlooked until now. Trawling involves…

Two men were searching for a fishing hole in Northwest, Indiana, spotted something shiny, and discovered a man stuck in a truck for 6 long days.The day after Christmas turned out to be a day those two men would never forget. Mario Garcia and his son-in-law Nivardo Delatorre discovered a mangled truck when out looking…

Foram cumpridos 10 mandados de busca e apreensão em São Paulo e no Ceará. Além da solicitação de bloqueio de valores, que podem chegar a meio milhão de reais.  A Polícia Federal deflagrou, na manhã desta quinta-feira,17/01, a Operação Fishing, com o intuito de desmantelar um grupo criminoso especializado em subtrair dinheiro depositado em caixas…