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New Antibiotics Could Come from the Arctic | H2O Radio
WEBIn the last 100 years, antibiotics have drastically changed medicine, extending the average human life by 23 years, but there has also been a gradual decline in the discovery and development of new antibiotics since about the middle of the last century. A group of scientists warned earlier this year that there’s a crisis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which makes it imperative to find new ...
What Caused a 650-Foot Tsunami? - H2O Radio
WEBSep 15, 2024 · An international team of scientists, including seismologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography has concluded that a mountaintop in eastern Greenland collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami about (200 meters) 650 feet tall. The giant wave rocked back and forth inside the narrow …
Red to Grow, Blue to Flow | H2O Radio
WEBThis latest incident, which dumped 14,000 barrels into Mill Creek, three miles east of Washington, Kansas, was larger than all of the 22 previous spills on the Keystone pipeline combined since it began operating in 2010. The EPA said the spill has been contained and that TC Energy, the pipeline’s owner, has built an earthen dam about four miles downstream to prevent the oil from moving into ...
Everything Everywhere All at Once - H2O Radio
WEBThe approval of the Willow project has some people challenging the idea that Joe Biden is the “environmental president.” This past week, the administration took some steps that may help him reclaim that title. On March 21, 2023, in an effort to protect federal land, the Biden administration announced the establishment of two new monuments—the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada and ...
Did Climate Change Sink a Superyacht? | H2O Radio
WEBAug 25, 2024 · Seven people died last week when a $40 million superyacht, the Bayesian, sank after being hit by a violent storm and a waterspout off the coast of Sicily.A fisherman who was on shore and saw the storm told the Guardian that, at about 4 a.m., a mini-tornado arrived. It swept chairs and tables out to the harbor, and a …
Spot On—Getting the Ground Truth About Severe Weather
WEBJun 16, 2023 · By Frani Halperin, Executive Producer. When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of lightning and thunder. But his fear gave way to fascination, and eventually, weather became a hobby because back ...
A River Sued a City—and Won - H2O Radio
WEBLast week, a court in Ecuador ruled that the rights of a river had been violated by pollution coming from the country’s capital city. Rio Machángara begins in the Andes and runs through Quito, where 2.5 million people live. The court decided that the city had breached the rights of the river by failing to treat 98 percent of the wastewater ...
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