Blogging the End of the World™
By Farron Cousins18 April 2011 Emails obtained by Greenpeace last Friday have revealed that BP was actively trying to manipulate studies designed to assess the damage from last year’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. In the wake of the disaster, BP created a $500 million fund to study the effects of the oil […]
By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press 20 Apr 2011 FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) – Workers battling the crisis at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant suffer from insomnia, show signs of dehydration and high blood pressure and are at risk of developing depression or heart trouble, a doctor who met with them said Wednesday. The crews have been fighting […]
Fairewinds Associates Inc.http://www.fairewinds.com Hi, I’m Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates, and it’s Wednesday, April 6th. In my previous update I talked about the possibility of an inadvertent criticality occurring at Fukushima [Unit] 1. That was based on four things. It was based on a neutron beam being detected thirteen times; it was based on the […]
Contact: Nicki Chadwick, Media Relations Officer, IUCN Office, t +41 22 999 0229, m +41 79 528 3486, nicki.chadwick@iucn.org;19 April 2011 More than 40 species of marine fish currently found in the Mediterranean could disappear in the next few years. According to a study for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ on the status […]
By Times-Picayune Staff Monday, April 18, 2011 One year ago Wednesday the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and starting a months-long spilling of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Here is what other media outlets are saying about it: One Year Later: Assessing the Lasting Impact of the Gulf Spill (Yale Environment […]
By Jim Bai and Tom Miles; Editing by Michael Urquhart18 April 2011 BEIJING (Reuters) – Central China’s Hubei province has joined a growing list of regions facing coal shortages, with a warning on Monday that it is very likely to start rationing power this month if coal supplies remain tight and low water stocks continue […]
By Jim Forsyth; Editing by Jerry Norton18 April 2011 SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry has requested a Major Disaster Declaration for the entire state, as brush fires which have burned more than 1.5 million acres continued on Monday. The fires have been whipped by 60-mile-an-hour wind gusts and fueled by brush dried out […]
By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer17 April 2011 In the high latitudes, climate change projections must take a new factor into account: Ice. In the Arctic, the loss of sea ice is likely to have dramatic repercussions, including greater erosion, which can present problems for the people and economic activity in this region, according to […]
By Kerry Sheridan 17 April 2011 RACELAND, Louisiana (AFP) – Jamie Simon worked on a barge in the oily waters for six months following the BP spill last year, cooking for the cleanup workers, washing their clothes and tidying up after them. One year later, the 32-year-old said she still suffers from a range of […]
Dallas, April 18 (CNN) — Texas authorities have made an arrest in connection with one of hundreds of blazes scorching the state in what a Forest Service official called the “perfect storm for wildfires.” … Firefighters are battling some of the driest conditions Texas has seen in nearly a century. April Saginor, a spokeswoman with […]
