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 [...]

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 | 34 comments

Lake Mead Drought

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Aquifer, Climate Change, Dams, Desertification, Lakes, Rivers, Transformation, Water, Weather

For the past decade Lake Mead has been battling the worst 10-year drought in recorded history along the Colorado River, which feeds the 110-mile-long reservoir. Since 1999, Lake Mead has dropped about 1 percent a year. It is estimated that by 2012, the lake’s surface could fall below the existing pipe that delivers 40 percent of Las Vegas’s water.

July 6th, 2009 | Category: Aquifer, Climate Change, Dams, Desertification, Lakes, Rivers, Transformation, Water, Weather | One comment

Columbus, Indiana 2008 Flood of the Century

Suzanne Kanehl posted this in Cities, Disasters, Flood, Rivers, Water, Weather

From the evening of June 6 to the morning of June 7 2008, Central Indiana was pounded by severe thunderstorms and heavy rain. Amounts of nearly 11 inches were recorded in some areas. This rain quickly led to record-breaking flooding in some areas during the week after. These storms were produced when strong winds above [...]

August 11th, 2008 | Category: Cities, Disasters, Flood, Rivers, Water, Weather | Leave a comment

China Quake Forms New Lakes

Automatt posted this in Disasters, Displacement, Lakes, Rivers, Transformation, Water

Landslides caused by the Sichuan earthquake have blocked rivers and formed new, possibly unstable, lakes. Satellite images taken by the Taiwan’s National Space Organisation (NSPO) show one such lake forming in Beichuan County, one of the areas worst hit by the quake. [via BBC]

May 26th, 2008 | Category: Disasters, Displacement, Lakes, Rivers, Transformation, Water | Leave a comment
 
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