Sheen Seen Emanating from BP Thunderhorse Platform in US Gulf

A band of silvery sheen was spotted emanating from BP’s Thunderhorse platform Tuesday in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, though the company said that it has taken action to prevent further discharges, according to a government filing. A two-foot-wide band of sheen stretching 30 feet from the platform, which is located in deep water south […]

First Measurements of Leakage from Fukushima Reactor

The first estimate of the amount of radiation that leaked from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in the wake of the devastating tsunami have been released by atmospheric chemists from the University of California, San Diego. Their estimates, which were published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy […]

Cassandras

The “base case” or “standard run” of the first edition (1972) of “The Limits to Growth”. Note how the start of the decline of the industrial and agricultural world production occurred around the start of the second decade of the 21st century What is most impressive in the recent world events is not so much […]

Nuclear Expert: Radioactive Rain-Outs Will Continue For a Year – Even In Western U.S. and Canada – Because Japanese Are Burning Radioactive Materials

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says in a new interview that the Japanese are burning radioactive materials. The radioactivity originated from Fukushima, but various prefectures are burning radioactive materials in their terroritories. Gundersen says that this radioactivity ends up not only in neighboring prefectures, but in Hawaii, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and California. He notes that […]

U.K North sea oil spill

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has said it is working to stop a leak at one of its North Sea oil platforms. The leak was found near the Gannet Alpha platform, 180 km (113 miles) from Aberdeen, Scotland. Shell would not say how much oil had been released so far, merely describing it as “not […]

Earth at seven billion

In an era of high anxiety, few issues rattled people in the 1960s and 1970s more than the Earth’s seemingly runaway population growth. The sense of imminent overcrowding doom was chillingly articulated by Paul Ehrlich, the Stanford University biologist whose 1968 book, The Population Bomb, became an unlikely bestseller, propelled in part by the academic’s […]

Polar Scientist Charts Melting Caused by Climate Change

Expects accelerated thawing to continue unless greenhouse-gas emissions are reduced. Michael Gooseff follows water to the end of the earth. The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing. He expects polar warming and melting to continue at an accelerating pace if no […]

Former Planned Parenthood exec praises China’s ‘one-child’ policy

On Tuesday, a former Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood World Population in Los Angeles praised China’s “one child” policy in a letter to the editor of the Napa Valley Register Newspaper. Offering his support for the Obama administration’s recent decision to cover birth control and drugs that can cause abortion, Norman Fleishman condemned the […]

Conocophillips ups estimate of China oil spill

ConocoPhillips China, a subsidiary of the Houston-based oil company ConocoPhillips , said on Friday that as much as 2,500 barrels of oil and mud leaked from an oilfield in China’s northern Bohai Bay. A recent survey at the C platform of Penglai 19-3 oil field identified more oil-based drilling mud on the sea floor than […]

Hydromimicry: Water as a model for technology and management

Abstract The concept of hydromimicry is related to the better known one of biomimicry, which is the process of applying biological designs or processes to human solutions. By analogy, hydromimicry is based on emulating water’s natural patterns, rhythms, and behaviors in the design of human products, technologies, and management strategies. Although the primary focus is […]

The Missing Truth in the BP Oil Disaster

More than a year after a private company operating in public waters retched 170 million gallons of crude and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico, creating an environmental catastrophe, we still lack reliable statistics on the BP oil disaster’s impact on the health of residents. I recently spent several days […]

Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes?

Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater into tap water? Desalinization of ocean water has been a dream and goal of scientist for decades, but the project takes on […]

Arctic ‘tipping point’ may not be reached

Scientists say current concerns over a tipping point in the disappearance of Arctic sea ice may be misplaced. Danish researchers analysed ancient pieces of driftwood in north Greenland which they say is an accurate way to measure the extent of ancient ice loss. Writing in the journal Science, the team found evidence that ice levels […]

Comparing Nuclear Events at Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island

Radiation leaks from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s earthquake-stricken reactors in northeastern Japan represent the worst nuclear power accident since the meltdown at Chernobyl, Ukraine, almost 25 years ago, scientists say. Helicopters poured 30 metric tons of water today on pools used to cool spent fuel rods. No change in radiation was reported after four runs […]

Colleen Carroll Campbell: The real population bomb

In 1968, Stanford biologist Paul R. Erlich opened his bestselling book, “The Population Bomb,” with this declaration: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can […]

The Rolling Urgency Paradox

We have only ten years to act on climate! Four years ago we only had ten years to act! Ten years ago we only had ten years to act! Twenty years ago, the same! This is very poor messaging, even though in a sense it is true. Let me try to explain how this could […]

Record Radiation Levels at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Record levels of radiation have been recorded at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant reactor, just months after the nuclear accident resulting from the earthquake and tsunami in March. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported that Geiger counters – a hand-held device used to measure radiation – registered their highest possible reading at the site […]

Probing the role of the sun in an era of global warming

Some skeptics have suggested the real culprit behind rising temperatures is increased solar activity. But a wide variety of data and experiments still provide no solid evidence to refute the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are the major reason the planet is heating up. Anyone who doubts that the Sun has a profound impact […]

Tepco Says Highest Radiation Yet Is Detected at Fukushima Dai-Ichi

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it detected the highest radiation to date, more than 10 sieverts per hour, within the grounds of its crippled Fukushima Dai- Ichi nuclear power plant, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility told reporters in Tokyo. Tokyo Electric is investigating the cause, Matsumoto said today. Bloomberg

UN: Global Population To Hit 10 Billion

The world’s population is likely to reach 10.1 billion people by the end of the century up from 7 billion this year. It will reach 9.3 billion along the way–probably in 2050. There is nothing astonishing about the number, at least not for those who have watched population growth in China, India, and other developing […]

World Population In 2050 To Explode To 9 Billion, Africa Contributes 49%

The world population is expected to reach nine billion in 2050, experts said. For the next fifty years in 2100, it is expected to climb to another billion, making it to ten billion. This is based on a review article by Professor David Bloom, which was highlighted by the Harvard School of Public Health press […]

Data Shows All of Earth’s Systems in Rapid Decline

Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and other species that provide Earth’s life support system increased tenfold, it would not be enough without dealing with the big issues of the 21st century: population, overconsumption and inefficient […]

BP Disaster a Year Later, Healthcare Crisis Worsens

When news of the disastrous BP oil well explosion reached the residents of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana last April, Mayor Tim Kerner did the only thing he could think of to stop the oil from destroying his community. He encouraged everyone in his town to join him on the water, working day and night throughout the […]

Oil still leaking at 2 platforms on NE China sea

Remote satellite sensing and a survey made by a patrol boat of the sea area on Wednesday and Thursday, both conducted by the China State Oceanic Administration (SOA), identified several oil belts in an area of 4.6 square kilometers to the east of the Penglai 19-3 oilfield, though ConocoPhilips’s oil-cleaning efforts continue. The surveillance has […]

Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

Calgary based journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk delivers a powerful and revealing presentation on what is really going on with the Alberta Tar Sands. In his talk he discusses the back story, the present and the fate of all oil-addicted “Petro-States”. This is Canada’s largest and most environmentally destructive mega-project ever and if we don’t […]

EPA Unveils Air-Quality Rules for ‘Fracking’

The Obama administration proposed Thursday the first national air standards for oil and natural-gas wells that are drilled using a controversial practice known as hydraulic fracturing. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was proposing new rules to reduce the amount of air toxins and smog-forming gases that are released into the air when oil and […]

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hold In Global Warming

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models […]

Were the Japanese Engineers Who Built Fukushima Incompetent?

A news item in the June 2, 2011 issue of Nature, (page 10) which may be the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, reports that 2010 carbon emissions have reached a new record level, 30.9 billion metric tons per year, roughly 1,000 tons per second after the world’s miraculous “economic recovery.” Um, um, um… […]

India: Awareness on population control needed

Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat, district administration, district health and family welfare and Government Wenlock Hospital organized World Population Day at the Regional Advanced Paediatric Care Centre here on Tuesday. Delivering the inaugural address, deputy commissioner N S Channappa Gowda said awareness should be created among people in villages to control the population growth. While the […]

Growing Human Population Could Lead to Soylent Green Future

The 1973 Film Soylent Green predicts a future world in the year 2022 where the stark landscape has been cleared of vegetation, temperatures are sweltering, mass extinction of flora and fauna means there’s no fresh food and the masses inhabiting overpopulated cities are fed energy concentrate wafers by the Soylent Corporation. The new Soylent Green […]

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