This aerial survey photograph from 2008 is of the fly-ash sludge spill in Kingston, Tennessee. The photo is courtesy of Flickr user SkyTruth.
39 More Toxic Coal Ash Sites Found to Contaminate US Water Supply With Arsenic & Heavy Metals
- “A site at Hatfield’s Ferry, PA had contamination of arsenic 341 times higher than the federal standard.”
World’s Largest Solar Plant Nears Approval in California Desert
- New solar power plant could power 800,000 homes.
- “The facility will replace fossil fuel-powered generating plants that would have pumped two million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.”
El Niños Are Growing Stronger, NASA/NOAA Study Finds
- “These results suggest climate change may already be affecting El Niño by shifting the center of action from the eastern to the central Pacific,”
- “A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting.”
E-waste recycling a ‘health and environmental hazard’
- “Scientists are concerned that recycling of electronic waste from computers, cell phones and other goods might be creating significant health and environmental hazards.”
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