Iran Sends Multiple Warships to Int’l Waters
The Iranian Navy on Wednesday sent the country’s its ever-largest flotilla of warships, consisting of four warships, to the high seas to safeguard maritime routes used by Iranian vessels operating in the international waters, specially in the Gulf of Aden. The 43rd fleet of warships, consisting of logistic Lavan warship, Falakhan and Khanjar warships, equipped with missile-launchers, troop-carrier Konarak warship and the...
Fukushima And The Oceans: What Do We Know Five Years On?
A major international review of the state of the oceans five years after the Fukushima disaster shows that radiation levels are decreasing rapidly except in the harbor area close to the nuclear plant itself where ongoing releases remain a concern. At the same time, the review’s lead author expresses concern at the lack of ongoing support to continue the radiation assessment, which he says is vital to understand how the risks are...
Fashion ‘Detox’ Catwalks: Towards Sustainable Textile Production
When you see a beautiful shirt on a fashion model or in a shop window, you ask yourself: shall I buy it? Can I afford it? But before deciding, there is another question to be answered: How much damage to the environment did the company cause in manufacturing the clothing? The textile industry has a background of polluting water and causing deforestation when producing and using fabrics and leather. But over the last years, many...
Israel cuts water supplies to West Bank during Ramadan
The Israeli water company Mekorot has closed the valves which supply major areas of the northern West Bank since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, giving priority to Israeli colonies while service to Palestinian cities, towns and villages is routinely reduced or cut off. Mekorot, Israel’s national water company cut off water supplies to the entire governorate of Jenin, several Nablus villages, the city of Salfit and surrounding...
Lake Baikal may disappear like Aral Sea
If Mongolia goes ahead with plans to build three hydro-electric dams on the Selenga river which 80 provides percent of the water flowing into Lake Baikal, that body of water is at risk of “an ecological catastrophe” that over time could lead to its disappearance just as the Aral Sea in Central Asia already has, according to Russian government experts. Svetlana Subbotina and Angelina Galanina write in today’s “Izvestiya” that this was...
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