Category: 03 Environmental Degradation

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Sepp Hasslberger: Nuclear Waste Piped Into Atlantic Ocean

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Not only is radioactive water from Fukushima poisoning the Pacific, they are doing it in the Atlantic ocean as well…

Plutonium being pumped into Atlantic ocean through miles of underwater pipes — Nuclear waste left lying on beach…

The dumping of nuclear waste in the sea was banned worldwide in 1993, yet the nuclear industry has come up with other ways. They no longer dump the barrels at sea; they build kilometers of underwater pipes through which the radioactive effluent now flows freely into the sea. One of these pipes is situated in Normandy [near] the French reprocessing plant in La Hague… The advantage for the nuclear industry? No more bad press… disposal via waste pipes remains hidden from the public eye, quite literally.

Video and transcript.

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Mini-Me: 120,000 Antelope Drop Dead

03 Environmental Degradation
Who? Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

Why have 121,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan suddenly dropped dead?

Just three weeks ago, there were thought to be about 300,000 saiga roaming the Kazakh steppes. Now, nearly 121,000 carcasses have been discovered. 

An estimated 300,000 saiga roamed across the Kazakh steppes on May 11, when the first dead antelope was discovered. By May 27, nearly 121,000 carcasses had been found in three huge areas of their usual habitat, Agriculture Ministry officials said.

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Antechinus: Low-balling Methane Pollution

03 Environmental Degradation
Antechinus
Antechinus

Widely-Used Tool Can Lowball Methane Pollution Rates, Scientists Report, With Huge Implications for Climate Policy

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The problem, the research team reported, is that under some circumstances, the sampler can fail to shift from its low sensor to high one, giving false low readings even when concentrations reached potentially explosive levels. For example, the researchers discovered that in methane concentrations as high as 73 percent, two Bacharach Hi-Flow samplers both failed, reporting that levels were between 1 and 6 percent.

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SchwartzReport: DNA of Poor Deteriorating — PBI: Is This Mass Genocide Against the Poor?

01 Poverty, 03 Environmental Degradation, 06 Genocide, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Some days, when I do SR by the time I am through  I just feel that with the level of stupidity and greed that pervades our culture we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't. This is one of those stories.

Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA Of The Urban Poor

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SchwartzReport: Drought Impacts Trees & Food

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

One aspect of climate change that people are simply not fully comprehending is the massive changes in the natural environment that are going to come with it. This report about California is just one example of what I mean. The massive restructuring of natural systems is going to be very challenging to our civilization.

Drought kills 12 million trees in California's national forests

It isn't just trees. Climate change is going to disrupt the food system, which is going to disrupt us in significant ways.  Once again I urge you to grow food and encourage and facilitate local food production. Communities that do that will have an easier time going through this inevitable transition.  And that is the reality. This restructuring is going to happen, because climate change is already happening, as this report and the tree story make clear.

California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System