Blogging the End of the World™
By Sabrina Mao and David Stanway; Editing by Nick Macfie19 June 2011 ZHUJI, China (Reuters) – Torrential rain across southern and eastern China which has killed more than 100 people and triggered the evacuation of half a million has left large areas of farmland devastated as food prices surge, state media said on Sunday. Weeks […]
By Michael Marshall19 June 2011 The UN is failing to accurately measure the global climate benefits of preserving forests. As well as providing homes for many species, trees store carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the planet. With this in mind, the UN set up the REDD programme (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera18 June 2011 According to TEPCO’s handout for the press for June 18, TEPCO stopped the entire water processing system manually when the surface radiation at the “skid” for removing oil and technetium exceeded 4 millisievert/hour, the limit set for replacing the zeolite cylinders (which TEPCO calls “vessel”) inside the skid. That “skid” contains […]
June 18 (Asahi Shimbun) – The Asahi Shimbun has obtained TEPCO documents that provide a timeline of events from 2:46 p.m. on March 11 when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck, and includes the explosions that occurred at the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors until March 15. Despite the orders of Masao Yoshida, […]
By Shigeru Sato, Sachiko Sakamaki, and Tsuyoshi Inajima13 Jun 2011 Makoto Tonami starts his workday by slipping on a white surgical face mask and then drives around with a borrowed Geiger counter, taking radiation readings. Three months ago, he was sorting garbage claims in Minami Soma, a city north of the Fukushima nuclear plant. “It’s […]
By FishOutofWater, for Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs16 June 2011 […] A map of citizen-measured radiation levels shows radioactivity is distributed in a complex pattern reflecting the mountainous terrain and the shifting winds across a broad area of Japan north of Tokyo, which is in the center of the of bottom of the map. Radiation limits […]
By Hideyuki Sano18 June 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – A rise in radiation halted the clean-up of radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushimi nuclear power station on Saturday hours after it got under way, a fresh setback to efforts to restore control over the quake-stricken plant. The power plant has been leaking radiation into the atmosphere ever […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera17 June 2011 More on the news that TEPCO halted the system due to higher than expected radiation level in the cesium absorption subsystem by Kurion: The radiation limit of 4 millisieverts/hour was reached in 5 hours, instead of one month as anticipated. New information from Jiji News Japanese (12:47PM JST 6/18/2011): The radiation […]
By www.mongabay.comJune 17, 2011 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continued to rise as Brazil’s Congress weighed a bill that would weaken the country’s Forest Code, according to new analysis by Imazon. Imazon’s near-real time deforestation tracking system found that 165 square kilometers (103 square miles) of forest was cleared last month, a 72 percent rise […]
By Nancy Gaarder, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER17 June 2011 FORT CALHOUN, Neb. — Despite the stunning sight of the Fort Calhoun nuclear reactor surrounded by water and the weeks of flooding that lie ahead, the plant is in a safe cold shutdown and can remain so indefinitely, the reactor’s owners and federal regulators say. “We think […]
