Blogging the End of the World™
[The Unit 3 spent fuel pool is completely wrecked and radiation levels are very high, lending support to Arnie Gundersen’s theory that a prompt criticality event occurred.] Uploaded by alphaspheric on May 10, 2011 Its a mess – after seeing the relatively intact SFP4, 3 is destroyed! So, where are the fuel rods? Status of […]
By Brandon Keim10 May 2011 An activist prankster group called Coal is Killing Kids has struck with a hoax website lampooning the coal industry’s resistance to federal pollution reforms. And science is on their side. The target of their “Coal Cares” site, supposedly offering free Justin Bieber and Dora the Explorer inhalers to children living […]
By Robert Burns, Texas AgriLife10 May 2011 Crop and forage production has “pretty much shut down” due to severe to exceptional drought conditions, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service statewide crop expert. “If you look at the U.S. drought monitor, about 26 percent of the state of Texas is an exceptional drought,” said Dr. Travis […]
By JAKE WHITTENBERG, KING 5 News10 May 2011 WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. – Our La Niña winter is starting to show its affect on area crops. Berry farmers in Whatcom and Skagit Counties are struggling to deal with unusually cold and wet weather. Some berry farmers report being about three weeks behind on their harvest. “We […]
YICHANG, May 7 (Xinhua) – The Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, is expected to increase its water discharges over three days in a bid to fight the severe drought that has ravaged Central China’s Hubei province and some southern provinces since February. The discharge speed of the dam will accelerate to 7,000 […]
BY HISAE SATO STAFF WRITER8 May 2011 The first map of ground surface contamination within 80 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows radiation levels higher in some municipalities than those in the mandatory relocation zone around the Chernobyl plant. The map, released May 6, was compiled from data from a […]
By WILLIAM NEUMAN12 April 2011 When prices for corn and soybeans surged last fall, Bill Hammitt, a farmer in the fertile hill country of western Iowa, began to see the bulldozers come out, clearing steep hillsides of trees and pastureland to make way for more acres of the state’s staple crops. Now, as spring planting […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 8 May 2011 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – Tarballs linger on Alabama’s uninhabited beaches, clustering around the edges of sand dunes and sticking to seashells and driftwood. The public beaches of Orange Beach, Gulf Shores and Dauphin Island received deep cleanings over the winter and are still monitored daily. But the more […]
May 9 (Reuters) – U.S. home values fell in the first quarter at the fastest rate since late 2008, real estate data firm Zillow said on Monday, suggesting that a bottom will not be seen until 2012 at the earliest. Zillow said its home value index fell 3 percent in the first three months of […]
Exceedance of critical loads for eutrophication by nitrogen deposition in 2010 under current European legislation (courtesy of CCE, 2008). Nitrogen deposition remains a threat to biodiversity across large areas of Europe (CCE, 2008). This concern is reflected in the incorporation of an indicator for nitrogen deposition under the Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators 2010 (SEBI, 2010) […]
