Mossy sends in: Searching for radioactive waste in the depths of the Atlantic

So apparently, during the cold war, everyone was just deep-sixing their radioactive waste in the ocean.

Although the practice is now banned, between 1946 and 1993, 14 European countries - including France and the UK - carried out dumping operations at more than 80 locations in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific.

In the northeast Atlantic, home to the most concentrated stretch of this radioactive marine waste, some 200,000 barrels lie at a depth of 4,000 metres. On June 15, a team of scientists from the CNRS (France's National Centre for Scientific Research), Ifremer (the French national institute for ocean science and technology) and the French oceanographic fleet, will set sail from the Brittany port of Brest in a bid to locate the barrels.

Just so's we're clear:

"This is not a mission to assess whether the releases were well or badly done," warned Escartin. "It's an opportunity to look at what was done in the past, without passing judgment, to carry out scientific studies. Afterwards, of course, we'll have to conduct a complete inventory, because we need one."

I feel like I'm getting in trouble.

How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home.

A headline like that can go one of two ways:
1. These clear and simple data visualizations will bring the climate crisis home to you, personally, and you're going to feel deep despair after you contemplate these grim truths that are so well presented.
2. You, dear reader, already understand the climate crisis, so let's have a meta-conversation about how best to bring it home to the uninformed masses.

I was worried this link would be the former, but it's actually the latter! Hooray! Not stressful to read. And I generally like thinking about how best to present data and information, so I found it interesting.

(via E. Messily)