By Geoff Brumfiel, with additional reporting by David Cyranoski and Rina Nozawa25 October 2011 The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the globe to estimate the scale and fate of emissions from […]
Contact: Senior Scientist Christian Sonne, csh@dmu.dk, Department of Bioscience and National Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University Tel.: +45 3078 3172 / +45 8715 870413 October 2011 New doctoral thesis documents that industrial chemicals are transported from the industrialised world to the Arctic via air and sea currents. Here, the cocktail of environmental toxins […]
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, October 18 (Reuters) – At last, victims of Japan’s nuclear crisis can claim compensation. And they are angry. They are furious at the red tape they have to wade through just to receive basic help and in despair they still cannot get on with their lives seven months after the huge quake and […]
By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent, BBC News 19 October 2011 It is a picture that seems at first to be quite beautiful. Only as the eye lingers do you fully realise its shocking context. This image of brown pelicans smothered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has earned Daniel Beltrá the title of Veolia […]
October 20 (NZN) – With a new booster pump in place, salvage experts will remain on board the stricken vessel Rena overnight to keep extracting oil from the ship. The operation hit a hiccup earlier on Thursday when the original booster pump’s circuits blew. Salvage unit manager Bruce Anderson says the setback didn’t stop the […]
Tokyo Metropolitan Soil Testing Results(released 2011/8/8) Over 60,000 Bq/kg of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 detected in Tokyo! As our first work of our Nationwide Soil Testing Project, we tested soil samples from 132 areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki. Our results show how much radioactive particles fell over the […]
Caption by Holli Riebeek14 October 2011 The green scum shown in this image is the worst algae bloom Lake Erie has experienced in decades. Such blooms were common in the lake’s shallow western basin in the 1950s and 60s. Phosphorus from farms, sewage, and industry fertilized the waters so that huge algae blooms developed year […]
By Tom Levitt30 September 2011 The popularity of tropical shrimp – often marketed as scampi, giant shrimp, gambas or tiger prawns – is having a devastating impact on local communities in Bangladesh, reveals a new investigation produced in conjunction with the Ecologist’s film partner. Sales of frozen prawns have soared in recent years, eaten deep-fried, […]
By Derek Cheng, James Ihaka, Jamie Morton, and Paul Harper 18 October 2011 Salvage workers are bracing for the death of the “creaking, groaning” MV Rena, now sitting precariously on Astrolabe Reef and expected to flood more oil into the sea. The same pancake-sized blobs of oil that have blotted the Western Bay of Plenty […]
By HIROKO TABUCHI14 October 2011 TOKYO – Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Like Japan’s central government, local officials said there was […]
