Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Nanoparticles Cause Brain Injury in Fish
September 21st, 2011Via: Science Daily: Scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown, for the first time in an animal, that nanoparticles have a detrimental effect on the brain and other parts of the central nervous system. They subjected rainbow trout to titanium oxide nanoparticles which are widely used as a whitening agent in many products including […]
Japanese Government to Invite Foreigners Who Have Large Facebook and Twitter Networks to Tohoku So That They Can Tell Their Followers “Japan Is Safe”
September 19th, 2011Do they get to bring their own dosimeters? Via: EX-SKF: Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have started to make preparations for inviting people from overseas who disseminate information via the social media such as Facebook and Twitter, as part of the countermeasures against “baseless rumors” that have damaged sales of Japanese agricultural products and tourism […]
U.K. Researchers to Test “Artificial Volcano” for Geoengineering the Climate
September 15th, 2011Via: Scientific American: Next month, researchers in the U.K. will start to pump water nearly a kilometer up into the atmosphere, by way of a suspended hose. The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported […]
The Urban Farming Guys
September 3rd, 2011Via: The Urban Farming Guys: We took the seeds in our pockets and every square foot we owned and went about like mad scientists testing out innovative ideas from all around world and making them work in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the US. Everything from urban fish farming to alternate energy. Now […]
And Now… Monsanto Corn Falls to Illinois Bugs
September 3rd, 2011Horror movie or silly video game? Nope, just more innovation from Monsanto. Via: Bloomberg: Monsanto Co. (MON)’s insect-killing corn is toppling over in northwestern Illinois fields, a sign that rootworms outside of Iowa may have developed resistance to the genetically modified crop, according to one scientist. Michael Gray, an agricultural entomologist at the University of […]
Lasers Could Be Used to Start or Stop Rainfall
September 1st, 2011Via: Guardian: Ever since ancient farmers called on the gods to send rain to save their harvests, humans have longed to have the weather at their command. That dream has now received a boost after researchers used a powerful laser to produce water droplets in the air, a step that could ultimately help trigger rainfall. […]
Monsanto ‘Technology’ Breeding Superweeds and Pesticide Resistant Root Worms
August 30th, 2011This week is Environmental Terrorist Organizations. Via: Mother Jones: Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered plants that can survive our very own […]
Japan: Nuclear Plant Worker Dies of Acute Leukemia
August 30th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Kyodo: A worker in his 40s who had been engaged in recovery work at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has died of acute leukemia, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday. Tokyo Electric said the worker’s death is not linked with his work at the plant, citing results of […]
4 Million People Without Power in Northeastern U.S.
August 28th, 2011Via: CNN: Trees toppled and streets flooded Sunday morning as Irene lashed some of the biggest cities in the Northeast with wind gusts and torrential rains. Even as Irene weakened to a tropical storm, authorities in the region warned that its impact was not waning. “We’re not out of the woods yet. Irene remains a […]
Irene: Utilities Bracing for Widespread Power Outages
August 26th, 2011Via: AP: Hurricane Irene’s strong winds and heavy rains threaten to deliver long-lasting power outages to millions of customers along the East Coast, utility officials and weather forecasters say. An unusually large number of people may be affected by Irene because it is forecast to stay just offshore — and thus retain much of its […]
