Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Thousands of U.S. Cattle Buried, Dumped at Kansas Landfill
July 26th, 2022What was this? Via: Reuters: Top U.S. cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows, documents seen by Reuters show. Other cattle were buried in unlined graves, a feeding company said. Neither is a […]
Heat Stress Kills Estimated 10,000 Head of Kansas Feedlot Cattle
June 15th, 2022Via: Progressive Farmer: The current heat wave blazing through Kansas feedlots has killed an estimated 10,000 head of fat cattle. Final death numbers continue to come in, but that early estimate was shared with DTN by livestock experts, who put the geographical center point for those deaths at Ulysses, Kansas. … Large losses in feedlots […]
Spring Wheat Hits 14-Year High On World War 3 & Weather Woes
May 9th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: A combination of delayed plantings in Northern U.S. Plains and Canada due to soggy weather, a dry spell in Western Europe, chaos in Ukraine, and severe weather in India, have disrupted global wheat markets, sending prices in Minneapolis to the highest levels since 2008. Spring wheat is used to make bagels, pizza crust, […]
Lake Mead’s Water Intake Pipe Exposed For First-Time
April 29th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: The top of the first water intake pipe at Lake Mead is now visible as the lake’s plummeting water level hit a new record low. “It’s official – the top of Intake No. 1 is now visible and the low lake level pumping station is now operational,” tweeted Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). […]
EPA Ignores Own Science, Plans to Reapprove Deadly Neonicotinoid Pesticides
April 12th, 2022Via: The Defender: Recent coverage by The Guardian of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) plan — to extend the registration of several demonstrably harmful neonicotinoid insecticides — compels Beyond Pesticides to identify, once again, the agency’s failures to enact its core mission. That mission is “to protect human health and the environment,” and to […]
Scientists Find Microplastics in Blood for First Time
March 26th, 2022Via: PhysOrg: Scientists have discovered microplastics in human blood for the first time, warning that the ubiquitous particles could also be making their way into organs. The tiny pieces of mostly invisible plastic have already been found almost everywhere else on Earth, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains as well as in the […]
Ukraine: Fire Breaks Out at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant After Shelling
March 3rd, 2022Update: Fire Extinguished [???] Via: Reuters: Russian forces seized the largest nuclear power plant in Europe after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday. Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia plant had spread alarm across world capitals, before authorities said […]
Can Startup’s New Drilling Technology Unlock Limitless Geothermal Power?
March 1st, 2022Via: Interesting Engineering: Quaise Energy plans to use millimeter-wave drilling systems that can reach depths where geothermal energy is virtually unlimited. The firm will drill with microwaves in order to go deeper than ever before. On its website, Quaise Emergy describes the technology as follows: “Our gyrotron-powered drilling platform vaporizes boreholes through rock and provides […]
Chernobyl: Hostage Situation [???]
February 26th, 2022Update: Russia Reportedly Takes Hostages at Chernobyl Nuclear Site Via: News: Ninety-two members of the Chernobyl power plant operational personnel were being held hostage, the Ukrainian ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova said during a press conference in Washington, D.C. — According to Jen… Via: Fox: Staffers at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear site in northern […]
Russian and Ukrainian Forces Fighting Near Destroyed Chernobyl Nuclear Plant [???]
February 24th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: The potential is rising for greater fallout from the war across Europe, as intense fighting is being reported centered in the Chernobyl area. Ukrainian authorities are sounding the alarm over potentially disastrous scenarios which could ensue in areas of the Chernobyl containment zone, which includes an expansive region surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power […]
