Category: Environment
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Can the world’s warming oceans be saved? | DW News
A major new report shows that owing to climate change, the world’s oceans continued to get warmer last year, making them the hottest they’ve ever been, and they’re still heating up. An international team of experts has examined data compiled by a Chinese institute to work out changes in ocean temperatures over decades. Researchers say…
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Michael Phelps Explains How Much Water You’re WASTING | Exclusive Interview
US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has collaborated with Colgate to ensure that everyone is learning how to save water. He shows us that we waste up to 4 gallons of water each time we brush with the faucet on.
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Swimmer Lewis Pugh To Take Frigid Antarctica Plunge For Climate Awareness | NBC News NOW
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is training for the hardest swim of his life, a kilometer across a lake on the Antarctic ice sheet. in order to raise awareness for climate change.
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The oceans absorbed an unfathomable amount of heat this decade
The quantity of heat the oceans have absorbed in the last decade is difficult to describe, if not imagine. The ocean’s heat content is measured in the most standard unit of energy, joules (using a 100-watt lightbulb for three hours eats up 1,080,000 joules). Between 2010 and 2019, the seas absorbed roughly 110,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy. To help…
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Venice’s St Mark’s Square turned into swimming pool as floodwater takes over city
A man gets some swimming laps in at St. Mark’s square while Venice experiences some of its worst flooding in over 50 years. Veuer’s Justin Kircher has the story.
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Students swim in plastic-filled swimming pool | The Straits Times
Students at international school GEMS World Academy (Singapore) learnt about the plague of plastic in the oceans by literally swimming in rubbish earlier this week.
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UK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars
Because we live on a divergent Hellworld timeline where everything is too comically absurd to be real except for the fact that it is, the BBC published an article about the need for asthmatics like me to step up our roles in fighting climate change. This is just the very beginning of it: Many people with asthma…
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Whales Have Been Spotted Swimming in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the First Time
While conducting research for the Ocean Cleanup’s Aerial Expedition, scientists spotted whales swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time. In a new study published in the journal Marine Biodiversity, researchers shared their findings from the survey and documented the sightings. “It is well known that ocean plastics pose a threat to marine mammals, with many…
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Clean Enough for a Swim?
Paris has prohibited swimming in the Seine since 1923, although the ban is enforced only haphazardly. Today, the river is heavily polluted and swimmers face health hazards from chemical waste and bacterial infections. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised the Seine will be clean enough to host open-water swimming events in the 2024 Olympics. Will the…