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Bakersfield, California’s Air Pollution

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Agriculture, Cities, General, Particulates, Pollution, Weather

For the third year in a row, Bakersfield, California ranks as the nation’s second smoggiest city in America. Coming in just behind Los Angeles, Bakersfield is also the second most ozone-polluted cities. But, that’s not all. Bakersfield has now moved into first place as the city with the most fine particulate pollution. According to an annual American Lung Association (ALA) report, which ranks America’s cities with the unhealthiest air, Bakersfield was third behind Pittsburgh and Los Angeles last year.

August 19th, 2009 | Category: Agriculture, Cities, General, Particulates, Pollution, Weather | 2 comments

Eastern Europe Cyanide Spill

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Copper, Cyanide, Lead, Mining, Oceans, Pollution, Rivers, Water

photo credit: Bálint Fejér, via Creative Commons
On January 30, 2000, a toxic chemical spill destroyed wildlife, devastated fish stocks and threatened the water supplies of nearly 2.5 million people in central Eastern Europe.
Romania’s Somes River, Hungary’s Tisza River and Yugoslavia’s Danube River, which is Europe’s largest waterway, were each catastrophically polluted. The toxic spill eventually [...]

July 29th, 2009 | Category: Copper, Cyanide, Lead, Mining, Oceans, Pollution, Rivers, Water | Comments are closed

Northern Snakehead Fish Invasion

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Fishing, Invasive Species, Lakes, Rivers, Transformation, Water

If snakeheads become established in a specific body of water, they can disrupt the ecosystem’s predator-prey balance. This can be catastrophic for native species.
Additionally, when a new species is introduced to an already established body of water, there is always the potential of the species bringing new diseases and parasites along with it. And, it does not appear that only large populations of snakeheads create environmental problems for American waterways. Even just one snakehead poses a threat because of its voracious feeding behavior.

July 13th, 2009 | Category: Fishing, Invasive Species, Lakes, Rivers, Transformation, Water | 9 comments

Secondhand Pill

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Cities, General, Pollution, Water

Because of this massive use of synthetic contraceptives, there is a substantial percentage of the worldwide human population who excretes significant quantities of synthetic, carcinogenic and largely nonbiodegradable female sex steroid drugs into the environment every day.

June 15th, 2009 | Category: Cities, General, Pollution, Water | 2 comments

The Dust Bowl

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Abandonment, Agriculture, Cities, Climate Change, Desertification, Disasters, Displacement, General, Particulates, Transformation, Weather

In the 1920s, farmers succeeded in conquering The Great Prairie Plains of the Midwest. The plains were then transformed into the “amber waves of grain” we know today. However, this transformation came with a heavy price.
In fact, the agricultural triumph over The Plains was the tipping point that changed a typical La Nina-type drought cycle [...]

May 12th, 2009 | Category: Abandonment, Agriculture, Cities, Climate Change, Desertification, Disasters, Displacement, General, Particulates, Transformation, Weather | 3 comments
 
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