Environmental Groups Call on Norway to Stop Deep-sea Mining Plans
program, the first step in the opening process.Environmentalists, however, said it was too early to conduct such a program."We know less about the deep sea than about the moon's surface," Silje Ask Lundberg, the head of Norway's oldest environmental organization Naturvernforbund (Friends of the Earth Norway) said."Mining on the seabed can destroy species and habitats that have an important role for both the sea and the planet."Steinar Loeve Ellefmo, an associate professor who heads a study program on deep-sea mining at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said
Shell Steps Closer to Arctic Drilling
of these animals to drilling operations, and the subsistence hunting activities of several Native villages. With this authorization, Shell only requires one more drilling permit from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to begin drilling in the Chukchi Sea in less than a month. Friends of the Earth Climate Campaigner Marissa Knodel issued the following response: Today’s authorization takes us one step closer to letting Shell turn the pristine American Arctic Ocean into an oil and gas sacrifice zone. Apparently the Obama administration finds nothing wrong with risking the health
Sunscreen Ingredients Might Harm Marine Life
small fish, which feed dolphins and other sea life, to whales. “A large percentage of sunscreens available to consumers contain nanoparticles, which means these ingredients are washed into oceans when we swim or shower,” said Ian Illuminato, Health and environment campaigner with Friends of the Earth. “These tiny ingredients are can also potentially toxic to humans and are rapidly entering food and consumer products without safety assessment or labels.” The study indicates that these tiny particles of titanium dioxide are a major oxidizing agent entering our coastal waters
February 2024
