Blogging the End of the World™
By Eric NiilerMarch 20, 2011 Sven Thatje has been predicting an invasion of deep-water crabs into shallow Antarctic waters for the past several years. But the biologist and his colleagues got their first look at the march of the seafloor predators while riding on an icebreaker across frozen Antarctic seas this winter. The ship towed […]
22 Mar 2011 (BusinessGreen) – Water scarcity could undermine the rapidly growing industrial sectors of China and India, while Europe remains far from immune to water shortage threats, according to new research published to support World Water Day. A quarter of the world’s largest companies are thought to be at risk from water shortages already, […]
Caption by Michon Scott and Mike Carlowicz20 March 2011 A swath of agricultural fields lies between the Japanese city of Sendai and Sendai Bay, and the area was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami on March 11, 2011. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comMarch 21, 2011 Conservation workers have found hundreds of oiled northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) after a cargo vessel wrecked on Nightingale Island, apart of the UK’s Tristan da Cunha archipelago. Northern rockhopper penguins are listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. According to a press release by BirdLife International, the […]
By Jason G. Goldman 22 March 2011 On Friday, March 11, Japan was rocked by an earthquake. People were displaced, a nuclear reactor was in trouble, and the world watched as a tsunami flooded Japan, threatened the islands of the Pacific, and ultimately hit the western coasts of North and South America. Chris Rowan pointed […]
A new pattern of antibiotic resistance that is spreading around the globe may soon leave us defenseless against a frighteningly wide range of dangerous bacterial infections In early summer 2008 Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University in Wales got an e-mail from Christian Giske, an acquaintance who is a physician on the faculty of Sweden’s Karolinska […]
By Timothy B. Hurst August 26, 2010 We hear all kinds of stats thrown around about how much coal-fired electricity generation China has added during its recent period of explosive economic development. The most commonly repeated – and my personal “favorite” – is that China is completing the construction of new coal-fired power plants at […]
Pictures of polar bears on melting ice caps make little difference to climate campaigns because people do not care about global warming until it happens on their doorstep, a survey has found. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent 21 Mar 2011 Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Environmental Psychology at Cardiff University, showed for the first time that […]
By David KirbyFrom the April 2011 issue; published online March 18, 2011 “There is no place called away.” It is a statement worthy of Gertrude Stein, but University of Washington atmospheric chemist Dan Jaffe says it with conviction: None of the contamination we pump into the air just disappears. It might get diluted, blended, or […]
Caption by Michon ScottMarch 18, 2011 On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the northeast coast of Japan and triggered a tsunami that devastated coastal communities. One of the hardest hit was the city of Rikuzentakata. At the end of a narrow inlet, the city of roughly 8,000 households lost 75 percent […]
