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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

Wilkins Ice Shelf Breaks from Charcot Island

Automatt posted this in Climate Change, Oceans, Transformation, Water

The Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used to have an ice bridge connecting it to nearby Charcot Island, until that ice bridge collapsed in early April, 2009.

May 5th, 2009 | Category: Climate Change, Oceans, Transformation, Water | One comment

Global Overfishing

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Fishing, Industrial, Oceans, Transformation, Water

Photo credit: Armando Estudiante via Creative Commons
A tragedy of the commons is a type of social trap that involves a conflict over resources between an individual’s interests and that of the common good. In this situation, a group of people work toward short-term individual gains, which, in the end, leads to a loss for [...]

March 20th, 2007 | Category: Fishing, Industrial, Oceans, Transformation, Water | 5 comments

Tire Reef

Nicki Harper, Ph.D. posted this in Automobiles, Oceans, Pollution, Water

 Photo credit:Matthew Hoelscher
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Let’s make an artificial reef from old tires and let corals establish themselves, creating a new marine habitat. At the same time, we’ll free up space in our landfills.
Ray McAllister, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, organized the project, with U.S. Army Corps of [...]

February 21st, 2007 | Category: Automobiles, Oceans, Pollution, Water | 8 comments

Bleaching the Great Barrier Reef

Laurie Fosner posted this in Climate Change, Oceans, Water

In Australia, summer has officially ended, but not without leaving its mark. Queensland and New South Wales saw their hottest summer on record in 2006. As a result of the hot weather, the temperature of the ocean has risen.
One might be tempted to think that’s a good thing. After all, who wouldn’t enjoy a leisurely [...]

June 8th, 2006 | Category: Climate Change, Oceans, Water | 2 comments
 
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