The picturesque ocean of New Jersey is set to feature hundreds of turbines that will provide millions with ‘clean energy’ – but it could be deadly for marine life.
Residents, lawmakers and activists are fighting against such projects, claiming companies blasting the seafloor with sonar are behind dozens of whales and dolphins in the past year.
Approximately 16 whales have died, and 72 were found stranded, along with 53 beached dolphins along the coast from December 2022, a New Jersey
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LONDON — Walking up a narrow gangplank, a small group of asylum seekers boarded the floating barge moored off England’s south coast. It would be their home for the foreseeable future.
Their arrival Monday was being closely monitored — and amplified — at the highest levels of the U.K. government.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on holiday in California, posted a video claiming he was “ending the farce of illegal
Wind power developers proposed four new projects off the New Jersey Shore on Friday, a surge that would more than double the number of wind farms built off its coast if they are approved by regulators.
At least two of them are more than twice as far out to sea than others that have drawn the ire of residents who don’t want to see windmills on the horizon. These two would not be visible from the beach, the companies proposing
Maine will procure at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040 under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, enough to power about half of the state’s electricity load.
Incentives to ensure wind power developers steer clear of lucrative lobster fishing grounds are included in the law, which puts Maine on a path to catch up with other states that already have offshore wind projects. The law sets a timeline for requests for offshore
A heady mix of contradictions is going on here in the Cayman Islands. Offshore diving and offshore banking. Dazzling sunsets and financial assets. Delicious shellfish and dubious shell companies.
Tucked in the westernmost corner of the Caribbean, I wonder what the Caymans, one of the world’s most notorious tax havens, offers civilians like me as I ruefully pay £30 for a ten-minute taxi ride and almost as much for a glass of wine.
It’s expensive, but it’s rapidly gaining status
Offshore wind farms often come under fire for the damage they wreak on marine habitats, but scientists say they could help ecosystems by growing coral.
Experts at Danish sustainable energy company Ørsted plan to create coral colonies on the steel foundations of four offshore wind turbines off the coast of Taiwan.
Together with Taiwanese partners, the company will test the concept, dubbed ‘ReCoral’, in the tropical waters near Taiwan’s Penghu Islands starting next month.
Relatively stable water temperatures at offshore
Die geheimen Banken der Schweiz halten bis zu 213 Milliarden US-Dollar an russischem Vermögen, schätzt der Verband der Finanzindustrie des Landes, da die Sanktionen gegen Russland einen seltenen Einblick in Schweizer Tresore gewähren.
Die Schweizerische Bankiervereinigung (SBVg) schätzt, dass die Banken zwischen 150 und 200 Milliarden Schweizer Franken (144 bis 193 Milliarden Euro) an russischen Kundengeldern auf Offshore-Konten halten.
Dies deutet darauf hin, dass das Ausmaß der Geschäfte wohlhabender Russen mit Banken in der Schweiz, dem weltweit größten Zentrum für
The secret offshore wealth of more than 300 world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest ever leaks of financial data.
Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the documents show how 35 current and former world leaders – including associates of Vladimir Putin – used accounts in tax havens to accrue huge amounts of wealth and carry out transactions.
The files consist of 12 million documents from 14 financial services companies in countries including the British Virgin
