More propaganda: Climate “experts” to announce global climate time bomb will go off by 2040
By Andrei Ozharovsky | Bellona The upcoming fifth climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is believed to reveal new, and gruesome, scientific data: Natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to global climate change will escalate in the 2040s, causing ever more devastating effects on the planet. The “climate time bomb” is set [...]
Read More →Experts say Oklahoma tornado’s power dwarfed Hiroshima bomb
ANI The amount of energy the killer tornado that hit US state of Oklahoma had dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 for wind speed and breadth and severity of damage. Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and [...]
Read More →Huge sinkhole in China kills five
The Peninsula Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong, local authorities said Tuesday. The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, that five people had [...]
Read More →New Rice Contamination Reported in China
AP | The Epoch Times Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country’s largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal. The mills in Hunan province’s Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and recall their products after samples showed [...]
Read More →Oklahoma Tornado Death Toll Lowered
VOA Officials in Oklahoma have revised to 24 the number of bodies recovered after a tornado devastated the town of Moore, in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma. Earlier, 51 people were reported killed. Officials attributed the higher number to counting bodies twice in the chaos following the storm that struck late Monday. They said [...]
Read More →Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming ‘not as likely’
Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.
Read More →Pavlof Volcano ash cloud shows Alaska’s threat to air travel
Ash billowing from Pavlof Volcano is not high enough to affect international air travel, but Pavlof is just one of a string of active Alaska volcanoes that sits beneath the flight corridor between the US and Asia.
Read More →Natural disasters uprooted more than 32 million people in 2012
By Chillymanjaro | The Watchers 32,4 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to natural disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes, according to a report released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre on May 13, 2013. According to the report, 98% of those uprooted were displaced by climate- and weather-related events. Climate change is believed [...]
Read More →H1N1 discovered in marine mammals
UC Davis | eScience Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published today, May 15, in the journal PLOS ONE. It is the first report of that flu strain in [...]
Read More →America’s first hemp crop in 60 years was planted this week in Colorado
By Michael Graham Richard | Tree Hugger Hemp, the THC-free cousin of cannabis, has recently been made legal in Colorado, but the feds still don’t approve, even though the selling of hemp products is perfectly legal (about $500 million worth are imported from other countries every year). What’s a would-be hemp farmer to do when faced with [...]
Read More →Explosions and Earthquakes Still Rocking Mexico’s Popocatépetl
By Erik Klemetti | Wired The high alert at Mexico’s Popocatépetl remains in place as the restless Mexican volcano still shows signs that new magma is at the surface, meaning a larger explosion could occur if pressures builds under the summit crater. Over the last day, the volcano has produced 22 separate explosions (see above) or “exhalations” of ash, as [...]
Read More →Ancient billion-year-old water pocket discovered beneath Canadian mine may reveal how life formed
By Tibi Puiu | ZME Science Buried deep at some 2.4 kilometers beneath the surface, in the vicinity of an underground mine near Ontario, Canada, scientists have stumbled across what may actually be the oldest water on Earth. Isolated for more than a billion years, the water pocket holds invaluable clues that may hint how ancient life formed, [...]
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