NO JOKE Despite the graphic, this is a real issue….. New Yorker Magazine: FEMA projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million[...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
September 13th, 2015 - 1:58 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
Seattle Threatened by Catastrophic Cascadia Earthquake
August 23rd, 2015 - 8:20 am § in Environment, Misc.
Seals Like Wind Farms!
Tagged Seals Revel Hangouts Near Wind Farms … Bad News for Salmon! (click to enlarge) Seals tagged with GPS reporters have revealed that at least some of them really, really like to hang around wind farms and pipelines. A study published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 21[...]
August 11th, 2015 - 1:32 pm § in Environment, Misc.
When you take out more water than nature puts in this is what you get
This used to be a river. Click here for story.[...]
August 11th, 2015 - 1:15 pm § in Environment, Misc.
America’s toxic mining legacy
The Animus River spill — an accidental release of polluted mining site wastewater into a tributary of the Colorado River, has focused renewed attention on America’s toxic mining legacy. Under the 1872 Mining Act, anyone can stake a claim on federal land and mine the minerals there by pay[...]
August 10th, 2015 - 3:22 am § in Environment
Crazy Scientists
? Oxygen Tests (1957) Crazy scientist demonstrates power of liquid oxygen – the stuff we breathe.[...]
July 23rd, 2015 - 8:03 am § in Environment, Misc.
Fishy solution: sun cream that is a load of old cods
Portuguese find another use for cod fish Portugal’s Escola Superior de Biotecnologia have developed a sunscreen made from cod bones. The product, essentially powdered cod bones, can be incorporated into sun cream to gives good UV protection, [...]
July 8th, 2015 - 1:35 am § in America, Environment
The Perils of Pot
A diver counts young salmon and steelhead in a tributary to the South Fork Eel River in Humboldt County in 2013. Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say. | [...]
June 29th, 2015 - 8:06 am § in Environment, Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Court Says Obama Can Not Block CO2
Court Blocks Limits on Power Plants, in a Blow to Obama By ADAM LIPTAK NY Times The ruling stops in its tracks the administration’s initiatives for controlling greenhouse gas emissions.[...]