5 April 2011 (Asahi Shimbun) – The government on Sunday acknowledged for the first time that it would take several months before radioactive materials stopped leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan for the Fukushima crisis, told reporters: “We cannot allow radiation to […]
TOKYO, April 4 (Kyodo) — Tokyo Electric Power Co. began disposing of a total of 10,000 tons of water containing low-level radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean on Monday from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to make room to store more highly polluted water filling the No. 2 reactor turbine building, as the […]
Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near the crippled reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Radioactive water leaking into ocean in Japan TOKYO, April 2 (Kyodo) – Water with high levels of radiation has been confirmed to have seeped into the sea from the No. 2 reactor […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and WILLIAM J. BROADPublished: March 28, 2011 The announcement by Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy that high levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in seawater near the crippled nuclear reactors raises the prospect that radiation could enter the food chain. Cesium 137 levels were 20 times the normal level […]
Hundreds of shards reveal the threat to wildlife from debris floating in our seas By Adam Sherwin24 March 2011 This collection of hundreds of coloured, jagged shards could be a work of abstract art. But the objects in the photograph to the right are the contents of the stomach of a sea turtle that lost […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
The switch from El Niño to La Niña across the South Pacific has brought cooler than average temperatures to eastern Australia for 2010. The President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Prof. Neville Nicholls has described the current La Niña as ‘super strong’—either strongest or second strongest on record, with the highest December Southern […]
By Michael RicciardiMarch 3, 2011 Over the past decade, the Arctic’s annual “bloom” of phytoplankton has been arriving earlier each year. The trend in earlier blooms of this crucial, primary producer of the Arctic’s food web is occurring largely along coastal and ice edge areas within the Arctic circle, with the exception of large patches […]
