Look At What We Are Doing To Our Earth. Pollution. Pollution. Eye in the sky finds poisoned sites - Environment. A detailed map of invisible mining deposits which have poisoned parts of Britain for centuries can now be produced, thanks to a revolutionary new space scanner that has been developed in Edinburgh. Dangerous waste products from lead and copper extraction pose a serious health risk, particularly as there has been no way to identify sites which may have been poisoned by medieval or Bronze Age workings. But now archaeologists can pinpoint their location, thanks to the Endeavour space shuttle, which completes nine days of mapping the Earth's surface tonight. It has been fitted with a unique radar device that will enable scientists to construct a three-dimensional model of the Earth's inhabited terrain, providing a unique view of modern and ancient civilisations around the globe. A problem with one of the shuttle's thrusters had threatened to cut short the project, causing the six astronauts to scrimp on fuel.
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Marine Conservation,Biosphere conservation. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Water Changes Everything. Freshwater Crisis: Looming Shortages. Fracking in USA. Pennsylvania cattle quarantined from gas fracking contamination. Natural gas drilling operations in Dimock, Pa. (Helen Slottje, Shaleshock.org via Flickr)Via ProPublica: Agriculture officials have quarantined 28 beef cattle on a Pennsylvania farm after wastewater from a nearby gas well leaked into a field and came in contact with the animals.The state Department of Agriculture said the action was its first livestock quarantine related to pollution from natural gas drilling. Although the quarantine was ordered in May, it was announced Thursday. A mere taste of what’s to come from natural-gas fracking in the Marcellus Shale, folks.
With fracking, or hydraulic fracturing of rock formations to extract natural gas, we’re setting ourselves up for an environmental disaster of epic proportions — and much of it the result of an inability to develop rural economies. Residents in upstate New York and central Pennsylvania are desperate for income, and the gas companies are happy to write checks for mineral rights. Nightmare scenarios abound. NY Times on Poison Water, Fish and Animals for Fort Chipewyan | Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands. Study Finds Carcinogens in Water Near Alberta Oil Sands Projects By IAN AUSTEN Published: November 9, 2007 OTTAWA, Nov. 7 — High levels of carcinogens and toxic substances have been found in fish, water and sediment downstream from Alberta’s huge oil sands projects, according to a new study. The 75-page report, written by Kevin P. Timoney, an ecologist with Treeline Environmental Research, was commissioned by the local health authority of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, where many residents say they believe the oil sands developments to the south are damaging their health.
Oil sands developments are generally vast open-pit mines that recover a form of tar mixed with sand. That tar, which is formally known as bitumen, is later separated and processed to produce oil. Most of the oil from the Alberta developments is sent to the United States. Earlier studies by the province of Alberta had dismissed health concerns. Mrs. Like Dr. Most disturbing, said Dr. Dr. Fracking hell. Nick Harvey reports on the movement against the destructive hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ sites springing up across the UK. How cool would it be if you could set your tap water alight? Think of what you’d save on heating bills alone… This is one of the wonderful things that the hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ process can bring to your local community – along with river contamination, air pollution and minor earthquakes.
The process involves drilling big holes in the countryside and then pumping large quantities of water and toxic chemicals down into the rocks below. This breaks the rocks apart, releasing the shale gas trapped inside that can then be used as a fossil fuel. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot, which is why communities living close to drilling sites have been a little reluctant to embrace the idea. A protest camp took place over the weekend at Hesketh Bank near Southport, just a few kilometres from the most recent drilling site in the UK.
Double whammy. Water Scarcity Could Affect Billions: Is This the Biggest Crisis of All? Glug-glug: Not normally a sound of foreboding. But mankind's most serious challenge in the 21st century might not be war or hunger or disease or even the collapse of civic order, a UN report says; it may be the lack of fresh water. Population growth, pollution and climate change, all accelerating, are likely to combine to produce a drastic decline in water supply in the coming decades, according to the World Water Development Report, published today. And of course that supply is already problematic for up to a third of the world's population. At present 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water and 2.4 billion lack access to proper sanitation, nearly all of them in the developing countries. Faced with "inertia at the leadership level and a world population not fully aware of the scale of the problem", the global water crisis will reach unprecedented heights in the years ahead, the report says, with growing per capita scarcity in many parts of the developing world.
Water Resources and Population Pressures in the Ganges River Basin, Haroun Er Rashid. Water and war. Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun? Commentators have referred to water as "blue gold", implying that water will be the object of the next resource wars. A peaceful future can only be secured if governments agree to share water resources, argues Tara Lohan. 24th April 09 - Tara Lohan, The Nation It has often been said that water is "blue gold" and the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water "will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous. " The British nonprofit International Alert released a report identifying forty-six countries where water and climate stresses could ignite violent conflict by 2025, prompting the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to affirm, "The consequences for humanity are grave.
Water scarcity threatens economic and social gains and is a potent fuel for wars and conflict. " Will these challenges result in an all-out "water war"? Further Resources: America's Breadbasket Aquifer Running Dry; Massive Agriculture Collapse Inevitable by Mike Adams. By Mike Adams Natural News Recently by Mike Adams: 8000 IUs of Vitamin D Daily Necessary to Raise Blood Levels of 'Miracle' Anti-Cancer Nutrient, Declares Groundbreaking New Research It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas.
It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry. See the map of this aquifer here. Without the Ogallala Aquifer, America's heartland food production collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals.
This problem with all this is that the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers. Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. It's not a problem that's unique to America, by the way. March 15, 2011. National Geographic Freshwater 101: Groundwater. Groundwater is the water that seeps into the earth and is stored in aquifers—areas of soil, sand, and rock that are capable of holding liquid. The water sits in between particles or in cracks and fissures. These saturated underground areas—some replenished by rain and snow, others not—can be found close to the Earth’s surface or hundreds of feet underground. When you pass a natural spring spilling water from a mysterious source, that source is often groundwater. This underground H20 also makes its way into lakes and rivers and is often tapped by wells for drinking and irrigation supply. Nearly 50 percent of people living in the U.S. get their drinking water from groundwater.
Threats to this underground source increase as population and development accelerate. Taxed by political, economic, and development pressures, some groundwater sources are now facing depletion. Fast Facts. Billions of litres of tainted tar sands water leaking: Report | Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands. Report Warns Oil Sands Investors of Toxic Waste Water's Financial Risk | Environment. March 16, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. This postfirst appeared on SolveClimate. A new report from RiskMetrics Group, a financial research firm, warns investors that some leading oil sands companies may be particularly exposed to financial risk from toxic waste water liabilities. The report attempts to quantify the true cost of cleaning up billions of barrels of contaminated water resulting from the mining and refining operations of leading producers of oil sands crude.
For example, for Suncor, currently the largest producer in the oil sands, water remediation could cost almost $2 million a week, or $104 million a year, according to RiskMetrics. In contrast, the super majors, like Exxon and Chevron, can easily absorb the clean-up costs because of their enormous size and diversified holdings. "Many investors were really glad to see the report," Yulia Reuter, the author, told SolveClimate. Super Majors Have an Advantage. River metals linked to tar sand extraction. Tar sands mining linked to stream pollution. Response: No, Greens must not cosy up to capitalism. They must resist it. In your interview with Mark Lynas he describes his conversion to "an environmental movement that is happy with capitalism", and urges greens to join him (Have the greens lost their way?
, 2 July). "Is the green movement a leftwing, anti-capitalist movement? " your article asks. "Mark Lynas believes it is, and that those who style themselves as greens should be marginalised and allowed to die off so that they can be replaced by a new breed of market-friendly environmentalists like him. " Is this really the future of the green movement? If so, it's one of defeat. Along with human overpopulation, the principal driver of the accelerating eco-crisis – anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity crash, destruction and degradation of wild habitat, and a virtual holocaust of animal species – is precisely capitalism. Lynas also condemns anti-nuclear protesters as "just as bad for the climate as textbook eco-villains like the big oil companies".