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The action in Kårstø:eight kayaks and three motor boats prevent the oil tankers from operating

Ultimately, the U.S. government limited fossil fuel development on a large chunk of federal lands in Alaska.Future oil and gas drilling will be in particular prohibited in over 5 million hectares of the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve, the largest expanse of public land in the nation.The measure is part of a broader Biden administration plan to protect sensitive ecosystems and wildlife.A move that is certainly also, and perhaps above all, political.The decision, with a nod to the key electorate of young people sensitive to ecological issues, comes not by chance as the engines of the presidential campaign heat up.In any case, good news for the Arctic.At the same time, the US Interior also announced that it will block the construction of a controversial road infrastructure, crucial for the operation of a copper and zinc mine in northern Alaska but of high impact on indigenous communities and wildlife habitats.Both decisions pose several political and legal risks for the Democratic admi...

Over the last 50 years, oil spills from tankers at sea have decreased by more than 90%.From the peaks of the 1970s, a period in which cases of large oil spills at sea occurred up to once every almost three days, problems relating to oil disasters have in fact decreased drastically, so much so that in 2023 there were just a case of a large spill.Furthermore, the 2023 data is not a mere isolated case, but is part of a general trend of containment of the phenomenon which has been going on for decades and which since the end of the early 2000s has never seen the number of averages and large spills reach double figures.This result was made possible by international policies and scientific progress, which led to the implementation of oil plants and cargo ships which made transport and storage systems more efficient, making them also safer. Data relating to oil spills on board oil vessels are provided by International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF), which publishes a report on the...

The United Nations climate summit ended a day late.An agreement has been reached for the first time on the need to abandon fossil fuels

The 197 countries gathered at the UN climate conference in Dubai and the EU delegation welcomed the Global stocktake with applause after long mediation