Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Gulf of Mexico: Continuous Oil Plume Over 35KM in Length, at Approximately 1100M Depth
August 20th, 2010See Scientific proof that the Deepwater oil plume is over 20 miles long, for an image of the water column at various depths. Via: Science: The Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest offshore oil spill in history. We present results from a subsurface hydrocarbon survey using an autonomous underwater vehicle and a ship-cabled sampler. Our […]
Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Ecological Disaster
August 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Long before BP’s blowout menaced the Gulf of Mexico, an oil industry-related coastal crisis of another kind began unfolding all over the Mississippi River coastal delta. Dredging for navigation, oil and gas drilling and pipeline construction has ripped apart the estuary’s fragile system of fresh and saltwater marshes. Between 1901, when drilling began […]
Big Picture Gallery: Landslides Strike Zhouqu County, China
August 18th, 2010Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: At midnight on Sunday, August 8th, a temporary lake caused by a recent landslide broke loose above the town of Zhouqu, in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China. The outflow slid down the valley as a wall of mud, wiping out houses and muli-story buildings, and killing at least 1,144 […]
Gulf Oil Spreading East on Sea Floor
August 17th, 2010Florida Oil Spill Law: Full Time Coverage of Gulf of Mexico Situation: Florida Oil Spill Law Via: CNN: Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected and at levels toxic to marine life, researchers reported Monday. Initial findings from a new […]
Radioactive Smoke from Fires in Chernobyl Fallout Zone
August 13th, 2010Via: Independent: Radiation levels near Chernobyl could rise and pose long-term health dangers as deadly forest fires spread to land contaminated by the world’s largest nuclear-reactor disaster, Russian environmentalists said yesterday.
NASA: Future Strategic Issues: Detonate Seabed Methane to “Produce Tactical/Strategic Level Tidal Waves Against Littoral Regions”
August 11th, 2010Here’s a 1999 New Zealand Herald article about the development of a tsunami bomb in the 1940s: Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal. An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves at […]
Big Picture Gallery: Severe Flooding in Pakistan
August 9th, 2010Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: It is only the start of the monsoon season, but already Pakistan is experiencing some of the worst flooding it has seen in over 80 years. Entire villages have been washed away, an early estimate of over 1,600 deaths so far and over 2 million displaced or otherwise affected. […]
Pakistan Floods Affect 12 Million
August 6th, 2010Via: Al Jazeera: About 12 million people have now been affected by Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years, disaster officials have said, raising previous estimates by three times. Nadeem Ahmed, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, said that the figure only applied to the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and central Punjab provinces, with figures from […]
Gulf Loop Current Stalls Due to BP Incident?
August 4th, 2010Via: Pure Energy Systems News: Oceanographic satellite data now shows that as of July 28, the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico has stalled as a consequence of the BP oil spill disaster. This according to Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, an Italian theoretical physicist, and major complex and chaotic systems analyst at the Frascati National […]
Russian Wheat Harvest Down Sharply Due to Drought and Fires
August 4th, 2010Via: Kansas City Star: Drought and raging wildfires have destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia and sent wheat prices soaring around the world. The fear that Russia, a major wheat producer, will have to cut exports by at least 30 percent is good news for U.S. farmers, who now are getting more money […]
