Exposing the human side of BP’s oil spill

Many of the chemicals present in BP oil and dispersants are known to cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, kidney damage, altered renal function, and irritation of the digestive tract. Dispersants were used after BP’s oil disaster that began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion killed 11 workers, spilling at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into […]

TEPCO admits nuclear meltdown occurred at Fukushima reactor 16 hours after quake

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after the March 11 earthquake struck a wide swath of northeastern Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami. […]

Media Silent About Plutonium Contamination of Japanese Rice

The Japanese Business Press reported on May 14 that a rice field more than 50 kilometers away from the Fukushima nuclear plant has tested for high levels of deadly plutonium. A “certain food manufacturing company” conducted the independent test that reported data different from data the Japanese government released, according to a translation of the […]

Secret Map Shows Massive Radiation Cloud Heading Toward U.S And Canada

New forecasts show a very predominate cloud of radiation that seems to blanket most of the United states in the next few days. Looking at the map you can see that the brunt of this cloud will hit the Western United States as well as Canada very hard. With steady winds flowing from japan and […]

The danger of overpopulation

The United Nations again raised its world human population projections within 90 years to reach 10.1 billion human beings on this already ecologically devastated planet. Humans add 10,000 babies net gain per hour, 240,000 per day and 80 million annually. Our species adds another 1.1 billion every 13 years. All the while, we wreak havoc […]

Your cell phone may be killing the honeybees

The world’s population of honeybees is dwindling, and for years scientists have been trying to discover the cause. Bee researcher Dr. Daniel Favre thinks he may have found the problem, and you, dear reader, might be part of it. The doctor believes that mobile phones may be a major factor in bee colony decline, leading […]

Fukushima – One Step Forward and Four Steps Back as Each Unit Challenged by New Problems

Gundersen says Fukushima’s gaseous and liquid releases continue unabated. With a meltdown at Unit 1, Unit 4 leaning and facing possible collapse, several units contaminating ground water, and area school children outside the exclusion zone receiving adult occupational radiation doses, the situation continues to worsen. TEPCO needs a cohesive plan and international support to protect […]

Toxic contamination of the Gulf environment

Many locals argue that living in close proximity to – and eating seafood from – the Gulf is risky and disagree with federal agencies’ claims that the Gulf is now safe. In response to their oil disaster last summer that released at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP admitted […]

Fukushima Reactor 1 Fuel Rods Fully Exposed, Reactor 4 In Danger Of Collapsing

Remember Fukushima? The exploded nuclear power plant that everyone was talking about two months ago and now the media has imposed a complete blackout on, because out of print/page views, means out of radioactive spewage, right? Wrong. According to the latest update from a now government funded TEPCO, “fuel rods are fully exposed in the […]

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster In Perspective

This press conference organized by Globla Research was held in the context of Helen Caldicott’s public lecture to Montreal on March 18, 2011. First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl.  It can be downloaded.(2)  They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the first time […]

How Peak Oil Solves The Climate Change Problem

Peak oilists warn that fossil fuel depletion will cause an economic collapse. Climatologists say carbon emissions will cause an environmental crisis. To a certain extent, only one of these doomsday scenarios can happen. If fossil fuel reserves are limited to the low end of the projection (see chart), then the world will automatically enter the […]

Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor ‘leaning’

A small group of evacuees have briefly been allowed inside the exclusion zone around Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. For the first time, the government gave permission for short visits so people could gather belongings and check on their properties. Meanwhile, a recent map of contamination released by Japan shows high levels of radiation well […]

Peter Gleick on peak water

Like our use of oil, our use of water has the potential to reach peak limits. EarthSky spoke with world-renowned water expert Peter Gleick, head of California’s Pacific Institute. He said: As much as 40% of the water humans use come from non-renewable resources, like northern China groundwater, or groundwater in the state of California, […]

Media Ignores Fukushima Fire

Image captures of video footage from the Fukushima nuclear plant appear to show a fire. According to Alexander Higgins and other bloggers, the Japanese shut down the webcam after the images below appeared on the internet. Lucas White Field Hixson posted the images last night, according to Higgins. There is also an animation of the […]

Population Control : Stopping Falling Population

According to a UN 2009 revised population forecast, world population will peak at around 7 billion in 2030, and begin to fall. How can that be? In 1980, world population was forecasted to be at least at 15 billion by 2050. In UNdata | record view | Total fertility rate (children per woman) by 2030, […]

Witnessing the End of an Era

In March this year (2011) the science journal Nature announced what many people already knew, that there are clear indications that the world’s Sixth Mass Extinction is already underway. The last mass extinction came some 65 million years ago when a comet or asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula, in modern-day Mexico, causing firestorms whose […]

Feeding world stirs debate

Creve Coeur-based Monsanto, the world’s largest agricultural biotech company, has for years made clear that it could benefit from a rising global population and rising food demand, particularly in developing countries. And recent spikes in food prices worldwide, combined with a protracted economic downturn, have sparked debate over whether biotechnology represents the answer to feeding […]

Can the World Feed 10 Billion People?

The world’s demographers this week increased their estimates of the world’s population through the coming century. We are now on track to hit 10 billion people by 2100. Today, humanity produces enough food to feed everyone but, because of the way we distribute it, there are still a billion hungry. One doesn’t need to be […]

Arctic ice melt ‘alarming’

Ice in Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting dramatically faster than was earlier projected and could raise global sea levels by as much as 1.6 metres by 2100, says a new study. The study released on Tuesday by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) said there is a “need for greater urgency” […]

UN forecasts global population to reach 10.1 billion by 2100

The world’s population, long expected to stabilize at just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released yesterday. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in […]

130000 acres of farmland lost for 2011

With a series of blasts that briefly illuminated the night sky like lightning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began blowing up a Mississippi River levee overnight, flooding about 200 square miles of rich farmland in an effort to bring down historic river levels and spare the city of Cairo, Illinois and other communities. The […]

Fears of Japan Fallout Are Overblown, Experts Say

The nuclear disaster in Japan has sent waves of radiation and dread around the globe, prompting so many people to buy radiation detectors and potassium iodide to fend off thyroid cancer that supplies quickly sold out. The fear is unwarranted, experts say. People in Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have reason […]

Rob Hopkins Interview:Climate Change & peak Oil

Transition Town instigator Rob Hopkins is interviewed by Adrienne Campbell in Lewes, East Sussex in the day Transition Town Lewes is unleashed. Question 3, How do Climate Change & Peak Oil inter-relate and why do they demand a certain type of response.

Ugo Bardi: The ghost of ASPO-9

ASPO, the association for the study of peak oil and gas, has been around for more than ten years by now; from when it was conceived first by Colin Campbell, at a conference in Germany in 2000. In these years, ASPO has grown from a small group of petroleum geologists to a remarkable association of […]

Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began

Bloomberg has an update on the Fukushima nuclear disaster – Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began. Weirdly this story has changed since it was first published, which initially claimed radiation readings had fallen to zero – http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero-for-first-time-since-crisis.html. Radiation readings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi station rose to the highest since an […]

Fukushima still a threat: senior officials

Two senior Japanese officials have warned that there is still a real risk of a catastrophic disaster at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Since Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami seven weeks ago an army of emergency workers has stabilised two of its six reactors but the other four remain volatile. The head of the […]

China’s population rises to 1.339 billion

China said on Thursday its population — already the world’s largest — increased by 73.9 million over the past decade to 1.339 billion in 2010, citing the results of the latest national census. The increase since the previous full nationwide 10-yearly census in 2000 was more than the population of Thailand — and greater than […]

“Massive crop losses” feared from US drought

The worst drought in more than 40 years intensified across Texas over the last week, with high winds and heat causing “massive crop losses,” with little relief in sight, according to weather experts Thursday. A report released Thursday from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed the Drought Monitor, said drought worsened along the Texas […]

Big tank may be put under nuclear plant to store tainted water

Prime Minister Naoto Kan is considering setting up a big underground tank in the compound of the radiation-spewing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to prevent contaminated water from spilling into the sea, a fishery official said Wednesday. ‘‘There is bedrock 46 meters underground. The government has found that no tainted water will seep below (the bedrock) […]

An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future

The widespread assumption that world population, now at 6.9 billion, will inevitably grow to 9 billion by midcentury is wrong. Population could peak before then and at a lower level, ameliorating environmental risks associated with climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, and food and energy insecurity. The equally widespread belief that an earlier, lower population […]

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