Fukushima City at EveryTrail By arevamirpal::laprimavera 16 March 2012 Professor Yukio Hayakawa was armed with 4 different radiation survey meters. One of the reasons he went to Fukushima was apparently to test the survey meters and compare the readings. The entire walk took 7 hours yesterday, says Hayakawa in his tweet, nothing compared to mountain […]
[cf. Polar bears ill from accumulated environmental toxins] By John Size, CTV News 18 March 2012 Arctic sea ice that’s been melting at a dramatic rate in the last few decades is releasing a chemical soup that could poison the food chain with mercury and other dangerous chemicals, a new study suggests. The NASA-led research […]
By Tom Arup 17 March 2012 URBAN air pollution will become the top cause of environment-related deaths globally by mid-century unless action is taken, one of the world’s peak economic groups says. In a study of the global environmental outlook to 2050, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warns there may be 3.6 […]
We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton…) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION. Since we do not […]
By Darren Osborne, ABC16 March 2012 The increasing amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere over the last 65 years is due to nitrogen-based fertilisers, according to a new study. An international team of scientists, led by University of California-Berkeley researcher Dr Sunyoung Park, made the finding after studying air collected at the Cape Grim […]
By Tara Patel13 March 2012 Water pollution from agriculture is costing billions of dollars a year in developed countries and is expected to increase in China and India as farmers race to increase food production, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said. “Pollution from farm pesticides and fertilizers is often diffuse, making it hard […]
Paris (AFP) 7 March 2012 – Water management needs urgent reform if the world is to head off serious deterioration in the quality and quantity of water available. At the release of the OECD’s Meeting the Water Reform Challenge, OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría warned that ,“Without major policy changes, we risk high costs to economic […]
By Alan Boyle9 March 2012 Satellite images tracked the catastrophic impact of Japan’s magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami on the Fukushima nuclear complex and other key sites, and now they’re tracking the reconstruction. To mark Sunday’s anniversary of the disaster, DigitalGlobe is releasing pictures showing “before, during and after” views of the devastation. You can see […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 9 March 2012 Whatever this substance is, the number is extremely high. About this “black dust” in Minami Soma, see my past posts, here, here, here.Minami Soma City’s Assemblyman Ooyama reports on his blog (3/8/2012): 試料：ID:080 鹿島区ジサ原CCs-134 1,498,000 ± 1,586 Bq/kgCs-137 1,932,900 ± 2,481 Bq/kgTOTAL 3,430,900± 2,945 Bq/kg It seems to be part […]
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent7 March 2012 It’s what an insurance company might call “a write-off” – a place that seems beyond salvation, and certainly too expensive to fix. I’d never thought of land that way. You smash up a car, and then it’s compacted into a square and maybe even recycled. […]
