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Original post by Lorraine Chow for Ecowatch Last week, a pipe owned by offshore oil and gas operator LLOG Exploration Company, LLC spilled up to 393,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, reminding many observers of the Deepwater Horizon explosion seven years ago that spewed approximately 210 million gallons of crude into familiar territory. Now, a report from Bloomberg suggests that the LLOG spill […]

Original post on Inhabitat Did you know that cigarettes take twelve years to decompose on average? That’s a big problem, as they are the most littered item on Earth – every year, approximately 4.5 trillion cigarettes are discarded with little regard for the environment. The new startup Crowded Cities has a plan to rid streets of this type of pollution – and

Original post on Premium Times The ‎federal government said it has ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, and the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a decision that would soon be forwarded to the appropriate authorities. The Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibril, said this at the 11th meeting of the National

Original post on Futurism On Thursday, October 19, Amazon launched their largest wind farm yet. Located in Scurry County, the Amazon Wind Farm Texas houses more than 100 turbines that will add 1 million megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy to the local grid, enough to power over 90,000 American homes for a year, according to the official

Original post on DW Under the motto “we’re sick of it!”, people in Berlin will hit the streets by the thousands on Saturday (01.16.2016) to protest for a transformation in agricultural systems. A broad coalition of more than 50 environmental, consumer, animal and farming groups have called for the demonstration, which coincides with the opening

Hey you! Do you cringe when you see heaps of refuse along the roads and want to do something about it? Are you bubbling with green ideas you want to share? Do you love to tweet it, like it, post it, gram it? We are presently looking for Sustyvibers who live in Lagos, Abuja or

I grew up in Lagos Mainland and it’s a place where everything seems to happen really quickly and traffic congestion is now a culture that most of its inhabitants have come to terms with. It gets more interesting in areas such as parts of Lagos Island where residents literally extend their living rooms to the

Original post on DW A study by the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) concludes that the total number of birds in Germany has been declining dramatically in recent years. In the past twelve years an estimated 12.7 million pairs of breeding birds have disappeared. That’s roughly 15 percent of the total bird population. The study

  Mass production of plastics, which began just six decades ago, has accelerated so rapidly that it has created 8.3 billion metric tons—most of it in disposable products that end up as trash. If that seems like an incomprehensible quantity, it is. Even the scientists who set out to conduct the world’s first tally of

Original post on The Independent  The scourge of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans must be tackled, Sir David Attenborough said as he launched the second series of Blue Planet II. More than eight million tonnes of plastic reaches the sea every year. There will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050, and 99