(Daily Mail) 8 March 2011 – They are known as the ocean’s gentle giants, but an alarming rise in manta and mobula ray hunting could threaten the very existence of the species. From India to Ecuador, manta and mobula fishing has become big business for fisheries who are selling their gills to be used in […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
DigitalGlobe has released a new satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan taken at 10:20AM local time on March 18, 2011. The most significant difference in the new image is the lack of any visible steam above the damaged reactor building for unit 3. In both the March 16 and March 17 […]
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.comMarch 17, 2011 Indonesian environmental groups launched a urgent plea urging the country’s two largest pulp and paper companies not to clear 800,000 hectares of forest and peatland in their concessions in Sumatra. Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian NGOs, released maps showing that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) […]
DigitalGlobe has released a new commercial satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan taken at 10:55AM local time on March 17, 2011. Steam continues to vent out of the top of the Unit 3 reactor building. Steam also appears to be continuing to vent out of the side of the Unit 2 […]
HATSUSHIMA – Earthquake recorded at Hatsushima observatory 1 on March 11 around 05:47 (UTC). To hear the low frequency sounds the recording has been sped up 16 times. Listening to the Deep Ocean Environment via Gizmodo Technorati Tags: ocean,Asia,infrastructure failure
DigitalGlobe has released a new satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear site in Japan taken at 9:35AM local time on March 16, 2011. Damage to the Unit 1 reactor building from a previous explosion can still be seen. Damage to the Unit 3 reactor building from an explosion can be seen as well. Steam […]
By ALAN McLEAN, MATTHEW ERICSON and ARCHIE TSE [Visit the site and move the slider to compare satellite images from before and after the disaster.] Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami Japan tsunami – before and after pictures Technorati Tags: Asia,flood,pollution,infrastructure failure
