Climate Update
Rechercher dans les archives Une revue de presse hebdomadaire sur tous les aspects de la crise climatique en Suisse et dans le monde entier. Les articles peuvent être filtrés par thème et mots-clés. Chaque semaine, nous recommandons quelques articles particulièrement intéressants.
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CAUSES
Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs
Satellite imagery shows the worst sites worldwide for oil slicks and methane emissions. Report authors expect pollution will only increase as the Trump administration opens more waters to drilling.
IMPACTS
Ölkatastrophe im Schwarzen Meer löst Delfinsterben aus
Zwei russische Öltanker stiessen in einem Sturm zusammen. Nun droht im Schwarzen Meer eine Umweltkatastrophe.
DROIT & LITIGE
Court of Appeal rules in favour of Nigerian communities over alleged pollution by oil giant Shell
The Court of Appeal has granted a landmark appeal in the claim of two Nigerian communities whose environment has been devastated by oil pollution, allegedly caused by Shell plc’s Nigerian subsidiary SPDC.
ANTI-CLIMAT
BP und Deepwater-Horizon: «Alles nur halb so schlimm»
Der Ölmulti finanzierte Studien, um die Auswirkungen des Öllecks auf das Meeresleben herunterzuspielen. Dies zeigen neue Dokumente.
IMPACTS
Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group
‘Opaque’ recording system means recorded volume of everyday oil pollution over the past decade should be increased by 43%, according to Oceana report
IMPACTS
Can the world stop a massive oil spill in the middle of a war zone?
If the race to stop a spill in the Red Sea fails, it would be one of the worst in history.
IMPACTS
* TAIFUN * Tote und Verletzte in Taiwan – Öltanker vor Philippinen gesunken
Auf den Philippinen sind laut lokalen Behörden im Zuge des schweren Tropensturms «Gaemi» über 30 Menschen bei Erdrutschen und Sturzfluten ums Leben gekommen.
IMPACTS
Shell accused of trying to wash hands of Nigerian oil spill mess
Shell’s oil spills have ruined farms and fisheries and locals want compensation before it sells up
IMPACTS
* FOSSILENERGIE * Öl-Katastrophe vor Jemen abgewendet – «Wir haben eine tickende Zeitbombe entschärft»
Im Roten Meer ist unter Leitung der Vereinten Nationen eine beispiellose Umweltkatastrophe abgewendet worden.
IMPACTS
Nigeria: Shell geht, die Ölverschmutzung bleibt
Vor zwei Jahren kündigte Shell an, die Onshore-Ölförderung in Nigeria nach mehr als 60 Jahren einzustellen. Seit 1958 bohrt der Öl-Multi an der Mündung des Niger nach Öl.
They cleaned up BP’s massive oil spill. Now they’re sick – and want justice
After 18 rounds of chemotherapy, Samuel Castleberry is tired. If it were up to him, he’d still be working his trucking job. The 59-year-old was making a decent living and felt fit. But in June 2020, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which has already spread to his liver.
IMPACTS
North Sea oil spills a wildlife threat – activists
Thousands of tonnes of oil have spilled routinely into UK waters from oil and gas production threatening marine life like porpoises and orcas, according to data shown exclusively to BBC News. The spills took place over five years and some of them hit areas meant to protect wildlife, the data shows.
IMPACTS
Oil spill at sea: who will pay for Peru’s worst environmental disaster?
More than a month after Peru’s worst ever environmental disaster on its coastline there are few signs of reckoning for Repsol, the Spanish energy company that manages the refinery where more than 10,000 barrels of crude oil spewed into the Pacific Ocean after a routine tanker discharge went awry.
IMPACTS
Le golfe de Thaïlande touché par une marée noire
Près d’une semaine après le début de la fuite de pétrole, la marine thaïlandaise et des scientifiques restaient mobilisés lundi 31 janvier pour nettoyer les dégâts occasionnés par une marée noire dans le golfe de Thaïlande.
IMPACTS
Peru says oil spill caused by Tonga waves is an ‘ecological disaster’
A dead bird lies on a beach during a clean-up, following an oil spill caused by abnormal waves, triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption half a world away, in Tonga, in Ventanilla, Peru, January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
MITIGATION & ADAPT.
The Nigerian woman cleaning up a land soaked in oil
It is the rarest of stories. A fix for an environmental disaster that is actually working. Oil spill after oil spill has turned the Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria, into one of the most polluted places on Earth.