Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Fukushima Forever
September 21st, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO. The announcement that the Japanese government will step in is also not reassuring since it was the Japanese government that failed to […]
Teach People About Food Atrocities with an App?
September 16th, 2013Via: Chipotle Mexican Grill – Scarecrow The Game: Related: The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation Research Credit: ottilie
Fukushima: Tritium Levels Up 15X Over Three Days
September 12th, 2013Via: Reuters: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said levels of tritium – considered one of the least harmful radioactive elements – spiked more than 15 times in groundwater near a leaked tank at the facility over three days this week. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tritium levels in water taken from […]
Fukushima: Japanese Government to Build Ice Wall in Desperate Attempt to Contain Leaks of Contaminated Water
September 3rd, 2013For a moment, let’s just assume that this will work. I doubt that it will work, but let’s pretend that will. What happens to all of the frozen slop when the grid goes down during the next disaster and the “ice wall” thaws out? Have a nice day! Via: AP: The Japanese government announced Tuesday […]
Fukushima Radiation Levels 18 Times Higher than Previously Admitted
September 2nd, 2013This is definitely one for your Not The Onion file folder. Via: BBC: Radiation levels around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned. Last week the plant’s operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground. It now says readings taken near the […]
Bayou Corne: The Biggest Ongoing Disaster In The U.S. You Haven’t Heard Of
August 26th, 2013Via: Mother Jones: What could possibly go wrong when miners, frackers, and drillers reshape the geology beneath our feet? Talk to the evacuees of Bayou Corne, Louisiana.
Fukushima: Radioactive Groundwater Nears Pacific
August 23rd, 2013Via: AP: Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific. Now, 2 1/2 years later, experts fear it is about to reach the ocean and greatly worsen what is […]
Fukushima Leak Is ‘Much Worse Than We Were Led To Believe’
August 22nd, 2013Via: BBC: A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated. Mycle Schneider is an independent consultant who has previously advised the French and German governments. He says water is leaking out all over the site and there are no […]
Genetically Modified Crops Pass Benefits to Weeds
August 21st, 2013Via: Nature: A genetic-modification technique used widely to make crops herbicide resistant has been shown to confer advantages on a weedy form of rice, even in the absence of the herbicide. The finding suggests that the effects of such modification have the potential to extend beyond farms and into the wild. … Making weedy rice […]
Japan Nuclear Agency Seeks Fukushima Alert Level Upgrade
August 21st, 2013Via: BBC: Japan’s nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale. Highly radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank into the ground at the plant on Monday. It was first classified as a level […]
