On August 26, 2024, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada’s decision to impose a 100 percent tariff on imported Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) starting October 1, 2024. Alongside a 25% tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum imports effective October … Continue reading
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Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
‘Cancer Alley’ is the dark nickname given to an 85-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River between the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. The parishes (Louisiana’s equivalent of counties) along this stretch, known as the River … Continue reading
The Reality of the Widespread Implementation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a groundbreaking technology that refers to the process of producing energy by harnessing the temperature differences between ocean surface waters and deep ocean waters. This new source of energy production has the potential … Continue reading
The Impacts of Coral Bleaching on Caribbean Fishing Communities due to the impending threat of El Niño
On the 8th of June 2023, anguish was felt throughout the entirety of The Caribbean. The El Niño conditions had developed in the tropical Pacific, but why does this affect regions in the Atlantic Ocean?
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) … Continue reading