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Fukushima Operator TEPCO Seeks to Restart Reactors at World’s Largest Nuclear Power Station
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on July 2nd, 2013
Nature World News: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, said Tuesday it plans to ask the country's nuclear watch group for permission to restart two of its offline nuclear reactors at a different location. (Photo : Reuters)
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, said Tuesday it plans to ask the country's nuclear watch group for permission to restart two of its offline nuclear...
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Comments Off on Fukushima Operator TEPCO Seeks to Restart Reactors at World’s Largest Nuclear Power StationObama Announces New Climate Plan Which Prioritizes Limiting Carbon
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on June 27th, 2013
Nature World News: President Barack Obama has announced a broad plan to deal with the effects of the climate change, specially the rising sea level and severe weather.
The plan also seeks to put in place regulation to control carbon dioxide emission at power plants.
Comprised by 21 pages, the plan outlines a blueprint to expand production of solar and wind energy and include billion of dollars in loan to finance the development of cleaner fossil-fuel and other energy technologies.
In another development, the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Obama Announces New Climate Plan Which Prioritizes Limiting CarbonIndian River Lagoon’s Dolphins May Face Increased Risk of Choking to Death: A Study
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on June 26th, 2013
Nature World News: With Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) earning a reputation as a dolphin graveyard, researchers recently published an examination on one of the threats facing the area's dolphins.
The IRL comprises 40 percent of the Florida coastline and is the most biodiverse estuary in the United States. Moreover, it is home to a group of approximately 700 dolphins that never venture outside of lagoon.
Because of multiple single cases of asphyxiation in dolphins caused by fish lodged in the esophagus being...
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Posted by Nature World News: None Given on June 26th, 2013
Nature World News: With some 30 million people relying on it, the Colorado River is a crucial American artery that, researchers warn, could shrink by nearly half its current size by 2050.
However, estimates regarding the river are varied, with the low end falling at just 6 percent.
For this reason, researchers at the University of Washington, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies and NOAA banded together to investigate and explain the reason why these discrepancies exists and summarize...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate Change and the Colorado River: New Study Warns of “Megadroughts”Alaska Feels Record High Temps, NASA Takes Rare Overhead Photo of the State Cloudfree
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on June 25th, 2013
Nature World News: A high pressure system over Alaska enabled NASA to capture a rare satellite image of the state almost completely devoid of cloud cover, but the odd and unusually hot weather has some climate scientists concerned.
Most days, the state is awash in clouds, which obscure much of Alaska's 6,640 miles (10,690 km) of coastline and 586,000 square miles (1,518,000 square km) of land.
The image above was taken on June 17 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite and...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Alaska Feels Record High Temps, NASA Takes Rare Overhead Photo of the State CloudfreeSaving South African Rhinos Injured While Poaching
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on June 22nd, 2013
Nature World News: UK researchers are developing treatment options for rhinos injured while poaching.
Rhinos are highly valued for their horns due to high demand in Asian markets. Rhino horns are powdered to make medicines that are used to treat fever, convulsions and strokes.
Rhino poaching is a lucrative trade in South Africa where organized groups of poachers kill many rhinos every year. In 2012, about 668 rhino were killed in South Africa. 2013 saw an increase of 49 percent with 203 rhino deaths in just the...
Gulf of Mexico Faces Record-Breaking Dead Zone With Devastating Consequences
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on June 19th, 2013
Nature World News: This year may be one of the deadliest for marine life who call the Gulf of Mexico home, a number of researchers warn.
NOAA-supported models at the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium forecast that the hypoxic "dead" zone located along the shores of the gulf will stretch between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles, resulting in a biological desert.
Should this be the case, 2013 would rank in the top 10 for largest dead zones ever recorded...
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