Prince George, B.C., 9 July 2012 – The bluish haze that has settled over the City is not the result of any local pollution. It is smoke from a forest fire, but not one that is raging in B.C. and, despite what you might think, it isn’t smoke that is being pushed north from the […]
Caption by Tassia Owen7 July 2012 Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo, was once a lush tropical landscape full of some of the most sought-after timber in the world. In recent years, a combination of logging and agriculture has contributed to a rapidly changing landscape. Forests are gradually being cleared and replaced by palm oil […]
By Patrick Evans 6 July 2012 Chernobyl, Ukraine (BBC) – Much of the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is pine forest, and some of it so badly contaminated that a forest fire could create a devastating radioactive smoke cloud. Heading north from Kiev in Ukraine, you can see old ladies and their […]
By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com5 July 2012 Coral reefs along Panama’s Pacific coast completely collapsed for 2,500 years due to natural climate cycles, researchers reported in a study Thursday, adding that there’s a lesson in the data for man-made climate change: ease up on greenhouse gasses and reefs will restore themselves. “We can prevent coral reefs […]
By Risa Maeda and Linda Sieg; Editing by Robert Birsel5 July 2012 TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 3 July 2012 It’s just a bad juju after another. Water leaks, alarms going off along the power transmission lines, protesters preventing the government minister from entering the plant by land, and now this. The Reactor 3 turbine vibrates too much. From Jiji Tsushin (7/3/2012): 発電再開、５日に延期＝関電大飯３号機 Start of power generation postponed till July […]
By Laura Betz, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center11 June 2012 Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation’s newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fires taking six days to reach America’s shores. Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite’s […]
Caption by Adam Voiland29 June 2012 Up to 90 taiga wildfires burned in the Far East of Russia on June 29, 2012. According to the ITAR-TASS news agency, the fires had burned more than 2,000 hectares (8 square mile) over the course of a day. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite […]
By Deborah Zabarenko and Laura Zuckerman; Editing by Stacey Joyce28 June 2012 (Reuters) – Scorching heat, high winds and bone-dry conditions are fueling catastrophic wildfires in the U.S. West that offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring, a trio of scientists said on Thursday. “What we’re seeing is […]
By KELLY SLIVKA28 June 2012 Many see New York State’s six-million-acre Adirondack Park as a place of respite where you go to gulp down the cool air and hear loon calls echoing through the hills. The landscape is unmarred, wild. Human hands do not have to physically touch a place, though, to disturb it. Mercury […]
