Blogging the End of the World™
PARIS (AFP) 30 December 2010 – Some 250 billion microscopic pieces of plastic are floating in the Mediterranean, creating a biological hazard that reverberates up the food chain, according to research supported by green campaigners. The estimate comes from French and Belgian marine biologists who analysed water samples taken in July off France, northern Italy […]
By Torsten BlackwoodThu Dec 30, 3:22 am ET BUNDABERG, Australia (AFP) – Hundreds of people fled worsening floods in Australia’s rural northeast Thursday as officials warned the disaster may last for weeks, prompting fears over food shortages and disease outbreaks. The latest evacuees, including 100 residents air-lifted from one town, join over 1,000 moved earlier, […]
By Tom Whipple Wednesday, December 29 2010 01:32:34 PM Wall Street is getting nervous. As oil prices continue to creep up and as more evidence accumulates that the age of ever-growing energy production and economic growth is coming to an end, a specter is haunting the great investment banks and brokerage houses of New York. […]
29 December 2010 North-eastern Australia’s worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region. There have so far been five flood related deaths in the last month. Rural towns west of Brisbane have been cut off, and crops have been damaged. The overall cost from flood damage is expected to exceed one […]
By Staff WritersDec 26, 2010 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 26, 2010 – The US Senate’s move to toughen laws on shark finning is unlikely to have much impact in Hong Kong, dubbed the “Grand Central Station” of the controversial trade, environmentalists say. The new legislation passed last week is aimed at protecting the ancient fish […]
BBC29 December 2010 Last updated at 04:18 ET A glaciologist is warning that the Greenland ice sheet is “retreating and thinning extensively” after a year of record-breaking high temperatures. Dr Alun Hubbard on Aberystwyth University says its future is “grim” but disputes claims by other experts that it could collapse within 50 years. He maintains […]
By David SwansonTuesday December 28, 2010 The fall and decline of an empire can take many years, but certain “benchmarks” (as imperial courts have been known to call them) can measure the progress in one year alone. Take, for example, the year 2010. This year opened with the United States Supreme Court claiming further power […]
Historically, the Rivers and Smith Inlet sockeye salmon stock formed one of the most valuable salmon fisheries in British Columbia, however it declined precipitously in the early 1990s. This decline is the result of poor marine survival during the migration through this ecozone and into the Gulf of Alaska; however the specific cause and location […]
ABC Radio AustraliaUpdated December 28, 2010 21:19:33 Listen: Windows Media All this week, we’re talking to some of the region’s top thinkers and looking back at the year 2010 to get a sense of what sort of a year it’s been for politics and people in some of the countries around the Asia Pacific – […]
WBIR.com Dec 22, 2010 This morning marks exactly two years since the disaster at the TVA plant in Kingston. That’s when an ash pond broke and dumped nearly a billion gallons of sludge on Roane County. That night was very cold. It was 12 degrees when the slide hit. Unforgettably, there was a man who […]
