Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, Michael Creed, has announced the Clean Oceans Initiative and has called for the participation of the entire Irish trawl fishing fleet in the scheme by 31st December 2019. Creed wishes to have all Irish trawlers at every pier and every port actively participate in collecting, reducing and reusing […]

The founder of Reboot Innovation, a creative studio dedicated to sustainability, argues that designers should not be focusing solely on recyclable packaging but instead on systems that encourage the public to “reuse and refill” old containers. From “single-use” being announced as Collins Dictionary’s word-of-the-year, through to nationwide public support for government action to reduce plastic waste, […]

Movements to eliminate single-use plastics are sweeping the globe. The first thing you notice when you enter Natural Weigh, Chloe and Rob Masefield’s small shop in the Welsh town of Crickhowell, is the enticing smell of food. Then you see that people have brought their own containers and bottles and are filling them with rice, […]

Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, according to a new research which shows that earlier claims of a slowdown or “hiatus” in global warming over the past 15 years were unfounded. Ocean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 per cent of the excess […]

You probably had a lovely shower this morning before you sat down to read the paper. Imagine if, when you turned the tap, the water that came out stank. That’s life for people in Menindee and surrounding areas right now. Politicians from every state and federal parliament should be at Menindee to experience the stench […]

HONOLULU – U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has announced she’s running for president in 2020. The Hawaii Congresswoman made the announcement Friday on CNN after months of speculation that she’d launch a bid for the White House. “I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” Gabbard told CNN’s […]

HONOLULU – Three B-2 Spirit bombers and more than 200 Air Force personnel have been deployed to the islands from Missouri. “This training is crucial to maintaining our regional interoperability,” said Lt. Col. Joshua Dorr, 393rd Bomb Squadron director of operation, in a news release. “It affords us the opportunity to work with our allies […]

OCEAN NOT OUR GARBAGE COLLECTOR Re: Plastic and a hard place, letter, Jan. 5 I couldn’t stop laughing at another scintillating letter from Jill Young. What a great sense of humour. On the serious side, Jill makes a good point that Ottawa garbage doesn’t end up in the oceans. If there are eight million tons of […]

Conservation officials in New York are hoping to locate an “exotic,” non-native species of the elk family that has reportedly been spotted in the central part of the state and may have potential to infect the native white-tailed deer population with a deadly disease. The  New York Department of Environmental Conservation has purportedly received multiple trail camera […]

No longer able to export as much waste, companies seek new solutions TOKYO — Japanese companies are pouring investment into plastic recycling facilities to handle the rise in bottles and used home electronics remaining in the country following China’s near-total ban on imports of plastic waste. Established businesses are joining the field. Suntory Holdings helped develop a technology that reduces […]