Archive for the 'Environment' Category
PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
January 20th, 2010Via: NextGov:
As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts.
On Monday, Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation [...]
Can You Do This With Your Tap Water?
January 19th, 2010Via: GaslandMovie:
CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER? from JOSHFOX on Vimeo.
When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area—the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States’ natural gas drilling boom. [...]
Record Electricity Demand in Florida as People Try to Stay Warm
January 11th, 2010Via: Florida Today:
Demand for electricity across the bitterly cold Sunshine State has shattered Florida Power and Light’s all-time record.
“This morning, we set a new all-time record peak load on the electrical system, with customers drawing more than 23,500 megawatt-hours of power,” said Sarah Marmion, FPL spokeswoman. “This breaks FPL’s previous peak record, which occurred on [...]
Britain: Freezing Weather Affecting Food Supplies
January 10th, 2010Via: Guardian:
Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce.
Gordon Brown, who will chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee early this week to discuss the freeze, was today forced to reassure the country [...]
Freezing Weather-Related Death Toll Rises to 22 in Britain
January 8th, 2010But first, we flashback to 2000: Independent: Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past:
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, [...]
2.4 Million Pounds of Plastic Pollution Enter the World’s Oceans Every Hour
January 6th, 2010Plasticalypse.
Via: Chris Jordan:
This new series looks at mass phenomena that occur on a global scale. Similarly to the first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. But this time the statistics are global in scale, rather [...]
Soviet Era Gas Drilling Mishap Resulted in Giant Pit That Has Been Burning Since 1971
December 28th, 2009Here’s one for your Cap and Trade file folder:
More: Derweze
Commercial Farms Emerging from Detroit Ruins
December 27th, 2009I’d love to know how Hantz Farms plans on building soil structure and providing soil nutrients on this scale.
Since they’re doing this in decentralized cells, maybe they can designate a property to serve as a composting facility that can generate large amounts of black gold with shorter turn around times and then distribute it, hub [...]
China: Clean Green Apocalypse
December 27th, 2009Via: New York Times:
Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast.
Just one problem: These elements come almost entirely from China, from some [...]
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due to Core Flux
December 26th, 2009Via: National Geographic:
Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet’s core, new research says.
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field’s movements by tracking how Earth’s magnetic field has [...]
