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12 Jun 2013:
Bird-Mimicking Mobile Apps
Harmful to Species, UK Groups Say
Wildlife officials in the UK are urging people not to use mobile phone apps that mimic bird songs in nature reserves, warning that the devices
can harm some sensitive species
, particularly during breeding season.
Icon for Chirp! app
The increasingly popular apps, which use recordings of bird calls to lure the birds closer for photographs or better viewing, can distract birds from critical tasks, such as feeding their young, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT), a conservation group that oversees 42 reserves,
is discouraging the use of the mobile apps at its reserves
, calling it an intentional disturbance of sensitive species such as the Nightjar, a nocturnal bird that has experienced a recent recovery in the area. "I'm sure visitors would be devastated if they realized the possible disturbance they were causing to wildlife," said Chris Thain, a manager at DWT's Brownsea Island reserve.
30 May 2013:
Nuclear Power Has Prevented
1.84 Million Premature Deaths, Study Says
The use of nuclear power from 1971 to 2009
prevented more than 1.8 million premature deaths
related to air pollution and 64 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, a new study says. Using historical production data and estimates of mortality per unit of electricity generated, scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University calculated that replacing nuclear energy sources with fossil fuel-burning sources during that period would have caused about 1.84 million premature deaths. By midcentury, they project, nuclear power could prevent an additional 420,000 to 7 million deaths, depending on which fossil fuels it replaces, and 80 to 240 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. "By contrast, we assess that large-scale expansion of unconstrained natural gas use would not mitigate the climate problem and would cause far more deaths than the expansion of nuclear power," said Pushker A. Kharecha, who, along with NASA's James Hansen, co-authored the study
published in the journal
Environmental Science & Technology
. The study calculated that nuclear power plant accidents caused about 4,900 deaths during the same period.
28 May 2013:
Electricity Availability Growth
Must Double to Achieve Global Access
The rate of expansion of access to electricity
will have to double over the next 17 years
if the world's population is to achieve 100 percent access to modern energy, a new report says. While about 1.7 billion people became connected to electricity sources worldwide between 1990 and 2010, that increase barely outpaced population growth during that period, according to Sustainable Energy for All, a group lead by the World Bank and the United Nations. More than 1.2 billion people still do not have access to electricity, and 2.8 billion still rely on burning wood or other biomass for household fuel, a source of pollution that causes about 4 million premature deaths annually. Achieving universal access to modern energy will require investments of $45 billion annually, which is five times the current levels. If combined with an expansion of renewable energy sources and improved efficiencies, however, achieving this growth in energy access would increase CO2 emissions by less than 1 percent, the report says.
23 May 2013:
China Poised to Launch
Much-Anticipated Carbon-Trading Project
China has revealed details of a carbon cap-and-trade pilot project that will be launched next month, a much-anticipated market attempt to rein in carbon dioxide emissions by the world's biggest emitter. The first phase of the program, which will be implemented in the southern city of Shenzhen,
will cover 638 companies
that produce 38 percent of the city's carbon emissions, according to the city branch of the government's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The system will impose caps on the companies' CO2 emissions and establish a market for the buying and selling of emissions permits. Eventually, the program will be expanded to include the transportation, manufacturing, and construction sectors, the
reports. By 2014, the experimental scheme will be expanded into six other designated cities and provinces, including Beijing and Shanghai. Earlier this week, the Chinese newspaper
21st Century Business Herald
reported that the NDRC is contemplating a nationwide system to control CO2 emissions by 2020.
21 May 2013:
Large Majority of Americans
Believe Global Warming Should be a Priority
Roughly 70 percent of Americans say global warming should be a priority for President Obama and Congress and 61 percent support requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax that would be used to help reduce the national debt,
according to a new survey
by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. In a national survey conducted in April, 87 percent of respondents said that the president and Congress should make developing clean sources of energy a priority, 68 percent favored regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and 71 percent supported providing tax rebates for people who buy solar panels and energy-efficient vehicles. Seventy percent said global warming should be at least a "medium" priority, while 28 percent said it should be a low priority. The poll showed that 7 in 10 Americans support funding more research into green energy sources.
16 May 2013:
Scientist's U.S. Road Trip
Reveals Unexpected Methane Emissions
Methane measurements collected during a scientist's road trip across the U.S. indicate that local emissions of the potent greenhouse gas
are higher than previously known in many regions
. Using a gas chromatograph mounted to the roof of a rented camper, Ira Leifer of the University of California, Santa Barbara, collected air samples from Florida to California, finding the highest methane concentrations in areas with significant refinery activity — such as Houston, Texas — and in a region of central California with oil and gas production. He found that methane concentrations exceeded the levels estimated by the U.S. Department of Energy, particularly in areas near industrial fossil fuel extraction sites. The results point to the importance of targeting these "fugitive" methane emissions in parallel with efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Leifer's findings were published in the journal
Atmospheric Environment
13 May 2013:
Project Looks to Quantify
Power Emissions Through Crowdsourcing
A team of scientists is enlisting public support to help produce a more comprehensive inventory of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants globally,
urging citizens to identify power plants in their communities
with a new digital app. While data from some of the
Google Earth
world's industrialized regions — including the U.S. and Europe — are already widely available, researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) say specific information on carbon emissions from most parts of the world is difficult to obtain. "It turns out that we know far less about fossil fuels than we thought we did," Kevin Gurney, an emissions modeler at ASU and co-leader of the so-called Ventus Project,
. "We could use some help." Using a simple Google Earth application, the technology enables users to upload exact coordinates of local power plants, and, if possible, information on the type of fuels used or the quantity of CO2 emissions. Organizers hope that the crowdsourcing initiative will fill data gaps on the world's roughly 30,000 power plants.
10 May 2013:
U.S. Web Tool Aims to Bolster
Research on Climate and Health Links
The Obama Administration this week
introduced an online tool
to improve research into the link between climate change and human health and promote innovative responses to future threats. As climate change triggers more extreme weather events and temperature shifts, it is becoming increasingly important to determine how these changes will affect respiratory illnesses, infectious diseases, allergies, and other human ailments, said Tom Armstrong, executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Writing
on the department's blog
, Armstrong said the so-called
Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health
, or MATCH, will provide an accessible portal of metadata from more than 9,000 health, environment and climate science data sets. "MATCH will help researchers and public health officials integrate the latest information from across environmental and health disciplines in order to inform more effective responses to climate and health threats," he said.
09 May 2013:
Third Coal Export Proposal
Falls By Wayside in Pacific Northwest
A large U.S. pipeline developer has dropped plans to build a $200-million coal export facility in northern Oregon, the third major terminal proposal to be shelved or canceled in the Pacific Northwest. Officials at Houston-based Kinder Morgan say the Columbia River site could not optimally accommodate the 30 million tons of coal that were expected to run through the site annually, largely for markets in Asia. While the company said the decision had nothing to do with public opposition to transporting massive amounts of coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to the coast, critics of the plan say growing protests affected the decision. "If that site didn't meet their physical constraints, they would have known that… years ago when they proposed this," Brett VandenHeuvel, director of the group Columbia Riverkeeper,
told the
Los Angeles Times
. Thousands of residents have signed petitions to block the project, citing concerns that the coal trains would cause pollution from coal dust and create traffic congestion. Three other coal export projects — two in Washington and one in Oregon —
are still on the table
01 May 2013:
Program Targeting Diesel
Emissions Will Be Cut by 70 Percent
A federal program that has cleaned up or removed 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines from U.S. roads is scheduled to be
cut by 70 percent under President Barack Obama's latest budget.
The program eliminated 230,000 tons of soot and smog-causing pollutants, slashed more than two million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and saved 205 million gallons of fuel. But the program's budget has faced steady cuts in recent years, falling from $50 million in fiscal year 2011, to $20 million in 2013, to a proposed $6 million in fiscal year 2014. The diesel cleanup program has succeeded in removing only a fraction of the 11 million dirty, pre-2006 diesel vehicles on the road. But environmentalists say that the program has been successful in helping clean the air in low-income communities that often are situated near ports, highways, and other areas with high diesel traffic.
23 Apr 2013:
Conservation of Forests
Can Prevent Malaria Spread, Study Says
The conservation of woodlands and biodiversity
can actually help prevent the spread of malaria
in tropical forests, a new study says. Using a mathematical model of different conditions in a forest region of southeastern Brazil, scientists found that the circulation of the parasite
Plasmodium vivax
— which is associated with 80 million to 300 million malaria cases worldwide — is likely to decrease in less developed forests where populations of non-malarial mosquitoes and warm-blooded animals are abundant. While no malaria cases have been reported in 30 years within the biodiverse study area, located in the Atlantic Forest, researchers say a primary malaria mosquito is found nearby. According to their study, published
in the journal
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
, the findings suggest that malarial and non-malarial mosquito populations are likely to compete for blood feeding, and that the animals act as "dead-end reservoirs" of the malaria parasite. "These aspects of biodiversity that can hinder malaria transmission are services provided by the forest ecosystem," Gabriel Zorello, an epidemiologist at the University of Sao Paulo and lead researcher of the study, told ScieDev.Net.
18 Apr 2013:
Reducing Short-Lived Pollutants
Could Slow Sea Level Rise, Study Says
Reducing the emissions of four critical pollutants in the coming decades could at least temporarily
slow the rate of global warming and reduce projected sea level rise by as much as 50 percent
, according to a new study. Building on previous research that found that reducing the emissions of four short-lived pollutants — tropospheric ozone, hydrofluorocarbons, black carbon, and methane — could slow the rate of global warming by 50 percent, the new study projects that sea-level rise could, in turn, be reduced by 24 to 50 percent by 2100, depending on the level of emissions cuts. Unlike carbon dioxide, which persists in the atmosphere for centuries, these four pollutants remain in the atmosphere anywhere from a week to a decade, so altering their atmospheric concentrations can have a more immediate effect on the global climate, scientists say. "Society can significantly reduce the threat to coastal cities if it moves quickly on a handful of pollutants," said Aixue Hu, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and lead author of the study
published in the journal
Nature Climate Change
02 Apr 2013:
Air Pollution Linked to
1.2 Million Chinese Deaths in 2010
Air pollution contributed to the premature deaths of more than 1.2 million people in China in 2010, or about 40 percent of early deaths worldwide caused by dirty air, according to a newly released analysis. The findings, based on data from a study on the distribution and causes of death globally, categorized "ambient particulate matter pollution" as the fourth-leading factor in premature deaths in China, behind dietary risks, high blood pressure, and smoking. Worldwide, air pollution was the seventh-leading cause of premature death, contributing to 3.2 million deaths, according to the study. While the study was
published in
The Lancet
, a UK-based medical journal, the summary of China statistics was reported at a forum in Beijing,
New York Times
. The findings come as public outrage grows in China as residents of many cities endure choking air far in excess of safe levels.
27 Mar 2013:
Natural Gas Extraction
Causing More Earthquakes in Netherlands
Extraction of natural gas from the deep soil in a region of the Netherlands has triggered an increase in minor earthquakes, similar to seismic effects that have raised concerns about drilling operations, including hydraulic fracturing, in other countries. While the extraction of gas has occurred for decades in the northern Netherlands, including in the province of Groningen, quakes have become more frequent in the last few years,
New York Times
. The region experienced as few as 20 quakes a year before 2011, but there were 18 during the first six weeks of 2013, with some strong enough to cause significant property damage. According to Chiel Seinen, a spokesman for a local gas consortium known as NAM, natural gas extraction has created at least 1,800 faults in the region's subsoil, although he said the controversial drilling technique known as fracking is not used in the Dutch region. A new study by Columbia University's Earth Institute found that a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that occurred in Oklahoma in 2011
may have been the largest quake yet
that can be linked to the injection of wastewater as part of an energy extraction project.
22 Mar 2013:
Expansion of Chinese City Poses
Environmental and Safety Risks, Critics Say
An ambitious plan to expand the western Chinese city of Lanzhou into a regional industrial hub is raising concerns over what critics call lax government oversight of the environmental and safety impacts, including worries that it will siphon huge amounts of water from
an already parched region
and devastate nearby mountains. Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, is a city of 3.6 million and a gateway to Tibet and the Xinjiang region. It is known as one of the most polluted cities in China, and now the government is working to expand the city's footprint by at least 70 percent,
according to Caixin Online
. That expansion involves the flattening of mountaintops, and the additional 1 million people and increased industrial activity will draw water from the already polluted and over-stressed Yellow River. Opponents of the plan say buildings will also be constructed on loose soil that will be vulnerable to collapse. "It was a rash decision to begin construction on the new city before receiving environmental approvals or seeking opinions from the Lanzhou public," said Zhao Zhong, a local activist.
18 Mar 2013:
New Chinese Premier
Vows To Tackle Pollution With 'Iron Fist'
China's new premier, Li Keqiang,
has vowed aggressive government action
to curb the rampant pollution that has provoked growing public outrage, saying the country would phase out "backward production
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Smog covers Beijing in January
facilities" that have contributed to dangerous health conditions in numerous regions. Speaking at his first press conference, Li said the government would set deadlines to address the public health controversy, exemplified by choking air pollution over Beijing that has kept air quality
at dangerous levels
since the beginning of the year. Chronic air pollution problems in major metropolitan areas, coupled with a recent episode in which more than
12,000 rotting pig carcasses
were discovered in a river that provides Shanghai's drinking water, have triggered growing public protest. While Li offered few specific solutions, he promised "vigorous" efforts to tackle pollution. "We need to face the situation and punish offenders with no mercy and enforce the law with an iron fist," he said. "We shouldn't pursue economic growth at the expense of the environment."
Interview: An Advocate for
Environmental Justice at EPA
Matthew Tejada brings on-the-ground experience to his new job as director of the Office of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tejada, 33, took over his EPA post
Matthew Tejada
this month after leading Air Alliance Houston, where he helped organize communities along the Texas Gulf Coast to fight air pollution from chemical plants, oil refineries, and the shipping industry. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Tejada explains how he sees his role at the EPA as an advocate for environmental justice, a concept that first emerged in the 1980s and focuses on the pollution burdens often placed on poor and minority neighborhoods. Tejada tells
why he thinks his work as a community advocate will help in his new job, why it is important for environmental organizations to build coalitions with grassroots groups, and how he sees "similarities across environmental justice communities, whether they're in Puerto Rico or in Kansas."
Read the interview
07 Mar 2013:
Shale Gas Boom Drives
Surge in Propane-Fueled Vehicles
The U.S. satellite TV provider DISH Network Corporation has announced it
will introduce 200 propane-fueled vans
to its fleet in 2013, another sign that propane, like natural gas, is offering an increasingly cost-effective transportation fuel alternative to gasoline and diesel. While there are already more than 13 million propane-fueled vehicles worldwide, propane historically has been considered a niche fuel because of high production costs. But driven by the surge in domestic shale oil and gas production, the wholesale cost of propane is now only about 85 cents per gallon — about half of 2011 costs. And while the vehicles cost about 10 percent more than diesel-fueled trucks, propane-fueled trucks ultimately can save $50,000 in fuel costs over the life of a vehicle, according to Reuters. In addition, DISH officials say their new propane-fueled vans
will reduce the fleet's overall emissions of carbon dioxide by 12.5 million pounds
over the lifetime of the vehicles. According to Pike Research, sales of natural gas-fueled vehicles
are projected to increase 10 percent annually
through 2019 while propane-fueled vehicles are expected to climb 8 percent per year.
26 Feb 2013:
Major U.S. Utility Will Close
Three Coal-Burning Plants in Midwest
One of the U.S.'s largest electric utilities
has agreed to close three coal-fired power plants
in the Midwest, the latest sign of how the U.S.'s electricity supply is shifting away from coal to natural gas and renewable energy. American Electric Power (AEP) will shut down the three plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky by 2015 — retiring a total of 2,011 megawatts of coal-burning capacity — and replace some of the power generation with wind and solar investments in Indiana and Michigan. According to the agreement, which settles a lawsuit originally filed in 1999 over the environmental costs of pollution that drifts east from the plants, the Ohio-based company will also spend $5 billion to install pollution-control technologies at its aging coal-burning plants in the eastern U.S. and cut its annual sulfur dioxide emissions from 828,000 tons to 174,000 tons within 12 years. With the latest shut-downs, utilities have now closed or announced the closing of 142 coal-burning plants
since 2010.
25 Feb 2013:
Labor Capacity To Fall as World
Gets Warmer, More Humid, U.S. Study Says
Increasingly warm and humid conditions that are predicted in the coming decades
could slash worker productivity 10 percent worldwide
by mid-century and could eliminate worker capacity altogether in some regions during the hottest months, a new U.S. study predicts. In an analysis of labor capacity based on existing military and industrial heat stress standards, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that the amount of work that people can do in some regions has already dropped by 10 percent over the last six decades and that the lost labor capacity could double by 2050 based on global warming projections. According to their analysis, published
in the journal
Nature Climate Change
, a temperature increase of 6 degrees C (11 degrees F) would "eliminate all labor capacity in the hottest months in many areas," including the U.S.'s lower Mississippi Valley. "This planet will start experiencing heat stress that's unlike anything experienced today," Ronald Stouffer, co-author of the study,
told Reuters
. According to the study, temperature increases must be limited to less than 3 degrees C (5 F) to maintain labor capacity in all areas during the hottest months.
21 Feb 2013:
Chinese Air Pollution Triggers
Steep Rise in Nitrogen Deposition
A spike in Chinese air pollution over the last three decades has caused a 60 percent increase in the levels of nitrogen pollutants that ultimately
end up back on the nation's land and in its water
, a new study has found. In an analysis of 270 monitoring sites across the country, researchers found that the annual deposition of nitrogen, as measured in precipitation, had increased from 13.2 kilograms per hectare in 1980 to about 21.1 kilograms per hectare in 2010. Scientists say so-called nitrogen deposition occurs when nitrogen in the atmosphere is washed back to the planet's surface by rain and snow in the form of pollutants such as nitrates and ammonium. Elevated nitrogen levels
can trigger harmful ecological effects,
from soil acidification to feeding algae blooms. According to the study,
published in
, leaves of herbaceous and woody plants absorbed 33 percent more nitrogen in 2010 than in 1980, while rice, wheat, and maize crops on unfertilized fields had a 16 percent increase. The spike in pollution levels has been driven by an increase in industrial emissions, agricultural uses, and transportation.
18 Feb 2013:
BPA Levels Found in Humans
Unlikely to Pose Health Risk, Study Says
A new U.S. analysis suggests that concentrations of bisphenol A (BPA) in the blood of the general public
are significantly lower than levels shown to cause toxicity
or mimic estrogen in animal studies. In an analysis of 150 BPA exposure studies — covering more than 30,000 individuals in 19 countries — toxicologist Justin Teeguarden of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that BPA levels were consistently lower than levels believed to cause biological effects. According to the study, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, these findings suggest that animal studies may not be a good indicator of the human health effects of BPA, a synthetic chemical found in thousands of everyday products, from plastic bottles to cash register receipts. "At these exposure levels, exposure to BPA can't be compared to giving a baby the massive dose of estrogens found in a birth control pill, a comparison made by others," Teeguarden said.
30 Jan 2013:
Satellite Analysis Shows
Gulf Oil Spills Typically Underestimated
An analysis of satellite images has revealed that small oil spills that have become common in the Gulf of Mexico
are often much larger than reported
, U.S. scientists say. Using technology that calculates the size of oil slicks based on differences in the texture of water surface, as captured in publicly available satellite photos, a team of oceanographers at Florida State University (FSU) estimated that known human-caused spills in the Gulf were typically about 13 times larger than reported to the U.S. Coast Guard's National Response Center. The spills are typically the result of minor drilling mishaps or fuel discharges from ships. "There is very consistent underreporting of the magnitude of [oil] releases," Ian MacDonald, a FSU scientist and team leader, told
. While these relatively minor oil spills may not cause significant environmental damage, the cumulative damage is not known since officials are unaware of the true extent of the spills, said John Amos, president of SkyTruth, a nonprofit organization that participated in the study.
29 Jan 2013:
Continued Beijing Air Pollution
Triggers Online Call for Clean Air Act
As Beijing residents continue to endure choking air pollution that far exceeds safe levels, an online poll
has found overwhelming support for new clean air legislation
. Ten hours after real estate mogul Pan Shiyi
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Haze over Beijing, January 2013
posted the poll on the popular social media platform Sina Weibo, 99 percent of respondents (more than 32,000 people) agreed that the government should enact a Clean Air Act, with many users offering specific measures to curb pollution, including car-free days, stricter auto emissions standards, and public health protections. The dangerous cloud of pollution that has hung over Beijing for about a month now covers roughly 1.3 million square kilometers, according to the government-run Xinhua news agency. In Beijing this week, visibility fell to 500 meters, and some city natives called it the "worst fog ever,"
according to
China Daily
28 Jan 2013:
Megacities Alter Weather
Across Long Distances, Study Says
Heat generated in major metropolitan areas is altering the character of the jet stream and other atmospheric systems, at times affecting the weather
thousands of miles away
, a new study says. Writing
in the journal
Nature Climate Change
, a team of scientists reports that so-called "waste heat" produced from buildings, cars, and other sources is altering weather patterns and increasing winter temperatures across large areas of North America and northern Asia by as much as 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F). In parts of Europe, however, the changes to atmospheric circulation are causing temperatures to fall by as much as 1 degree C., the study found. "Although much of this waste heat is concentrated in large cities, it can change atmospheric patterns in a way that raises or lowers temperatures across considerable distances," said Aixue Hu, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and one of the lead authors of the study. According to the study, this phenomenon is different than the so-called "heat island effect," in which cities are warmer than surrounding areas as a result of heat collected and re-radiated by pavement, buildings, and other urban features.
23 Jan 2013:
BPA Alternative Also Disrupts
Development At Low Doses, Study Says
A synthetic chemical developed as an alternative to the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA), and now widely used in many products,
also disrupts human development at low doses
, according to a new study. Created after research indicated
potential health risks associated with BPA
— a component of polycarbonate plastics found in everything from plastic bottles to cash register receipts — bisphenol S (BPS) was found in the study to disrupt cellular responses to the hormone estrogen, altering biochemical pathways that affect cell growth and hormone release, according to researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. And like BPA, BPS triggers these effects at extremely low doses, the researchers found. According to UTMB's Cheryl Watson, lead author of the study
published in
Environmental Health Perspectives
, BPS is active at doses in the range of parts per trillion or quadrillion.
Interview: Charting a New Course
For America and the Environment
magazine once called him the "ultimate insider," and indeed Gus Speth has had a long career as an establishment environmentalist. And so it might be
Gus Speth
surprising that his latest book,
America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy
, offers a bleak picture of what U.S. environmentalism has accomplished and calls for an overhaul of the nation's political economy. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Speth, now a professor at Vermont Law School, discusses the evolution of his own thinking on how to address environmental problems and his frustration with continued inaction on climate change. He also talks about the links he sees between economic fairness and environmental health; why he is encouraged by new movements and lifestyles emerging in local communities; and why he rejects what he calls America's "growth fetish." "The first thing about growth is it doesn't deliver," Speth says, "and it detracts us and deflects us from investing in the things that really do need to grow — like jobs, like education, like green energy technology."
Read the interview
21 Jan 2013:
NASA Map Shows Air Pollution
Across Asia and the Middle East
New satellite data released by NASA provide dramatic visual evidence of the dangerous air quality reported from cities across Asia and the Middle East this month.
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Nitrogen dioxide levels, January 2013
Based on data collected from its satellite-based Ozone Monitoring Instrument,
a map released by NASA scientists
illustrates high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) — shown in orange — over several major cities, including Istanbul, Tehran and New Delhi, during the first week of January. Satellite measurements of nitrogen dioxide concentrations are a good indicator of air quality since NO2 is produced by the same fossil fuel-burning processes that also send sulfur dioxide and aerosols into the atmosphere, such as from vehicles, industrial sites, and power plants. The high concentrations of NO2 shown in the NASA map, based on measurements from Jan. 1 to 8,
coincided with reports
from several cities of hazy skies, unhealthy air quality, and elevated cases of lung ailments.
16 Jan 2013:
Insecticides Pose Threat
To Bee Populations, Report Says
European scientists have found that imidacloprid, the world's most widely used insecticide,
poses "unacceptable" risks to bee populations
, a finding that some groups hope will result in a ban on the chemical. Asked to assess the health risks of imidacloprid and two other neonicotinoids — clothianidin and thiamethoxam — as seed treatment or as granules, the
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded
that the chemicals should be used only on crops that are "not attractive to honeybees" because of possible risk of exposure through nectar and pollen. Some researchers have said the neonicotinoids make bees more vulnerable to pathogens and
could be a factor in so-called "colony collapse disorder
," a phenomenon that has decimated honeybee populations for several years. A spokesman for Bayer, which manufactures imidacloprid, told the
that the EFSA report does not alter existing risk assessments and warned against bans based on "an over-interpretation of the precautionary principle."
10 Jan 2013:
Up to 50 Percent of Food
Is Wasted Worldwide, Report Says
As much as
half of the food produced globally is wasted
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A helicopter flew into a crane on a 600ft tower block in central London today and cartwheeled on to the street in a hail of wreckage and blazing aviation fuel.
Two people died and 15 were injured after the copter's rotor blades hit the crane cab. Debris crashed down on Wandsworth Road, 20 yards from Vauxhall station as thousands of commuters made their way to work.
Cars were set on fire as the fuel poured down a road and there were reports of people shouting for help. A motorcyclist was unable to brake in time and rode into the flames.
Witness Craig Marchland said: "People were screaming. It was madness, absolute madness. There was smoke to the eyeballs. The explosion was like a bomb. There were three cars on fire. One was completely disintegrated, you couldn't see it at all."
Another said of the helicopter: "There was a loud crack and it came spinning out of control towards us. Nobody would have got out of there alive."
Commander Neil Basu of the Met Police said: "It was something of a miracle that this was not many, many times worse." There were dozens of trains in the area each packed with upwards of 800 passengers. Dense smoke drifted across the tracks and train drivers hit the brakes because they could not see.
Vauxhall Tube and rail stations were evacuated over Vauxhall Bridge to Pimlico. Traffic along the whole of Millbank and both sides of the river was jammed and commuters were forced to make their way to work on foot. No pedestrians were allowed across Vauxhall Bridge.
The twin-engine Agusta 109, which was not carrying any passengers, clipped the crane at just before 8am. The two dead were the pilot and a person on the ground who is thought to have been struck with blazing debris.
The pilot was named this afternoon as Captain Pete Barnes, 50, who is believed to be married with children. He had over 25 years' experience and was working for Surrey-based firm Rotormotion which carried VIP guests and has also worked flying helicopter on films including James Bond and Saving Private Ryan.
Firemen rescued one man from a burning car which was hit by debris near a Sainsbury's in Wandsworth Road near Vauxhall Bridge.
Four people were taken to hospital by ambulance crews, one was reported by police as critically injured and three were said to be suffering minor injuries. Five others walked into hospital with minor injuries and the ambulance service said they were treating four people at the scene for shock.
The helicopter was on a scheduled flight from its base in Redhill in Surrey to Elstree to undertake a chartered flight. A spokesman for the London Heliport at Battersea said it had received a request from Heathrow air traffic control to accept the helicopter, whose pilot had asked to be diverted due to bad weather.
The spokesman said they did not have any contact with the pilot.
The aircraft was following the line of the Thames when it hit the crane on the 51-storey The Tower, One St George Wharf, one of Europe's tallest residential blocks.
One witness reported the aircraft "rocking and shaking from side to side" before it crashed. One said the wreckage narrowly missed a commuter train as it crashed to the ground.
Eyewitness Michael Gavin was standing at Vauxhall station facing the tower block when he heard a loud bang. He told BBC News: "The top of the crane was obscured by fog so I didn't see the impact. But I heard a bang and saw the body of the helicopter falling to the ground along with pieces of the crane and then a large plume of smoke afterwards."
Another said: "I heard a helicopter and looked up but didn't think anything of it as we see a lot round here. But then it hit the crane and there was a massive bang. It was making a terrible noise and then got lower and lower before crashing. It was really frightening and terrible to see. It was like something out of a film."
Another witness said: "A motorbike drove straight into the flames because he had nowhere to go. It is a scene I will never forget." London Fire Brigade station manager Bruce Grain, one of the first firefighters at the scene, said it "was absolute chaos" but he said the fire was put out within 20 minutes.
Eight fire engines, four fire rescue units and around 80 firefighters attended the scene.
Fire crews were examining the crane at the St George's Wharf development which they said was "in a precarious position". They were also working with specialist contractors to ensure the safety of the crane which was damaged.
Peter Cowup, assistant commissioner at London Fire Brigade, said: "At the moment there's no imminent risk of that crane collapsing." The helicopter is believed to be an AgustaWestland AW109, a lightweight, twin-engine helicopter with eight seats. Records for the helicopter thought to be involved in the crash — G-CRST — show that it was built in 1997 and has twin engines made by Pratt & Whitney of the USA. It has been registered with leasing company Castle Air of Liskeard, Cornwall, since February 2011.
Construction workers who were working on the site of the crane told how they were immediately evacuated from the site minutes after they got to work at around 8.05am. Chris Yates, an independent aviation expert, told Sky News: "Helicopters are not supposed to come within 500 feet of any structure."
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Got lazy and let an IPA ferment up to 76F (WLP007). Overall taste is OK, but the alcohol/phenols after-taste ruins it. Should I dump it or will aging eliminate or mellow the higher alcohols? Also, if I should age it, should I store at room temp or keep it cold? How long to age? It is currently in a keg, carbonated, and in my keezer. Some stats:
It was in primary for 2weeks, transferred to secondary with dry hops for 1 week at 68, then chilled in fridge for 2 weeks.
I'm going to hand this over to father time and call this one a long-term research project! The beer also has a considerable cloudiness to it so I'll see if that settles out as well. Wish my beer luck...
See if it ages out at all, you can always dry hop in the keg 6 months from now to bring it back to life!


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Flea beetles on greens
Thinking ahead to spring plantings, I'm trying to figure out a way to control flea beetles on arugula, spinach and bok choy. These green grow well in our cool spring weather but were ruined by flea beetles last year. Row cover didn't seem to help much because the eggs overwinter in the soil.
Wondering if anyone has used Surround (the clay coating)to control flea beetle damage. I know it is used with fruiting crops like tomatoes so it would probably work on the greens. But I'm concerned that it will be hard to clean the leaves. Has anyone ever tried this?
its hard to clean the leaves. but its probably good at the early stages of the plant way before harvest time.
from what i read about flea beetles (a big problem here) is that they overwinter as adults in garden debris and at the edges of the woods.when the temps are in the 50's or more on a consistent basis they become active.
row covers work well if they cover without any holes or places for the beetles to get in. i've done this with eggplant. spinosad is supposed to help but it didn't for me.
if i were transplanting flea beetle susceptible plants i would put surround on them. but when there is new growth the surround would have to be applied again. the problem with that is if some of those leaves are your product you will be spending a bit of time washing the surround off. it doesn't just come off like dirt.
What I have done with 100% success is a combination of row covers and sticky traps made from vessels like 16 oz water or pop bottles filed with water, capped and than covered with tangle Foot. Place a bottle every 3' to 4' in the row and within 18 hours you should be FB free.
This work because the bottles warm up during the day and than at night when the air temp drops the FB jump on the traps seeking warmth and stick. You will sometimes get a good guy or two as well.
It's really hard to wash all the Surround off of crops so it looks like your leaves are covered with pesticide residue to the Organic buying public.


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Deer and beans
The deer are terrible here. They have ate the tops out of everything except my tomatoes, corn, and my BJBB's. A little light bulb appeared over my head... LOL
The tomatoes are in cages, the BJBB's are on a fence trellis. I guess they don't like corn, or maybe it was because the corn was next to the BJBB's.
My thought was, maybe they are scared of the cages and the trellis? I have always planted bush type green beans and I'm planning on switching to runners next year so they will be easier to pick.
Do you think they might not mess with them with a trellis?
Also one row of butter peas planted next to the toms wasn't messed with, but the next row over never stood a chance. On the other side of the toms I had my blue lakes and they kept them trimmed back.
I have tried electric fence, fishing line fence, ETC and they still get in.
Have you tried hanging 'Dial' soap around, just opening one end of the package but leaving it on the soap, this way it will catch some rain and the scent stays stronger. The best time to start this regime is before the rut season starts in the fall or so I was told and, use 'Dial' not 'Irish Spring' or any other deodorant soap. Apparently this worked really well for a commercial rose grower, I haven't had a need to try this I don't have a deer problem touch wood, just passing this tidbit along :).
They got half a bed of cowpeas last night. My own fault. I failed to set up the Scarecrow sprinkler early enough. The Scarecrow works. I have had four of them for two years now and when they are on, the deer stay away.
Interesting thought about the trellis, but I can say that one year, the deer ate my pole beans on a trellis. They neatly cropped them from about a foot off the ground up to about four or five feet high. Grrr.
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Same here, one year deer ate the beans from the trellis, now I cover most everything with bird netting, including kale, karrots,
kohlrabi bush beans etc. Never had a deer stand on top, they would eat under the ends sometimes where the netting doesn't cover all.
Cut the bottom off of 20 oz drink bottles, drill a hole in the top, run string or wire thru the hole, tie to an old sock, soak with cheap, loud smelling perfume, hang several around the perimeter, pull the bottle down to cover the sock so the rain won't wash the perfume off. Lived at a deer hunting camp one year, had a garden, peas, beans, tomatoes etc., did this, had deer tracks all around the garden plot but no damage and no tracks in the garden. Try it !!!
Deer love to eat ears of corn. Occasionally, they will eat the top of the stalk also. Add squirrels, fox, raccoon, black bear, and woodpeckers(birds) to your list of corn predators. I suggest you plan a line of defense for your corn also. Tomatoes need protection too.
There's a pecking order for the food grown in your garden...the animals and bugs feed first and then you get the leftovers if there's anything left :-(
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Hi their as my name suggests, i am addicted to desert roses. Just ordered my 1st one off ebay today. But thats not the topic for today.
I want to grow a gardenia indoors year-round. I want to use a combination of mostly artificial lighting, but there is a eastern facing window that has the full influence of direct sunlight and this window will be about about 10 inches from where the plant will be. I am experienced with saltwater aquariums so i do have a bit of experience when dealing with lighting, i will be using standard fluorescent this time, but my question is, keeping in mind i want flowers, how many watts?
so far i was thinking either a 24 inch fixture around 60 watts t5ho, or preferably a desktop 27 watt standard fluorescent if i can cuz i already have that.
Some background on this location and my experience
I keep my indoor bougainvallea in this room, very close to the proposed gardenia spot. I've been babying it since i got it, hoping it will flower for me, Its been growing like a weed, no artificial lighting for this baby. I have had it since last October. No flowers yet. I water it daily, not that i want to, but if i forget to water it for 48 hours the leaves start dropping and also after 36 hours the leaves are pointing straight down. thank goodness i very rarely forget to water. I have setup a daily routine of misting my succulent cuttings experiment from the garden 6x/day they seem to have rooted now, thus im onto my gardenia experiment. I also have 2 different varieties of orchids here, both have flowered and produced baby orchids for me, 1 is a very difficult strain of orchid, you cant buy this kind at Home Depot, but i have had much success. This room is very humid. I have 8 fish tanks in this room, which is a very small room, which give off enough humidity that i don't actually water my orchids. Haven't watered them in 3 years, trust me there fine. they just kind of do there own thing. I have 6 pothos plants which im growing hydroponically, just hanging right off the back of the tanks, they help manage the water quality in my aquariums by eating the fish poop as fertilizer, the big plus, i dont water em :). and an aeonium decorum that just kind of sits their, had it for years, doesnt do much, then again its in a dark corner with no light.
Now if your thinking i am this successful and flawless think again. I have killed many a plant, including a gardenia once, about 8 months ago in the fall. got the nastiest spider mite problem i have ever seen in my entire life. It ended up infecting over 20 of my plants, killed nearly half, including a 80$ jade bonsai :(. I have also killed a money tree from neglect which eventually led to root rot, a geranium which caught the mites from the original gardenia. I also killed my old mother pothos, from who'me all my current pothos's originated from via cuttings. She was nearly 20 feet long when she passed from what started off as a 2 week vacation, which then led to my cat knocking it over and ripping it to shreds. Not to worry, all plants have now been cat-proofed. That's my story.
You could give us pictures. :)
I'd like to see one of your bougainvilla. I've had no luck growing those indoors.
what type of gardenia are you hoping to get for that spot? How many hours of direct sunlight will it get?
I've got quite a few gardenias growing indoors. And most under growlights (16hours a day).
The spider mites? ... best to set up a spray routine - neem oil with water, once or twice a week over the leaves are a great preventative to bigger issues once you start putting a large quantity of plants in close proximity to each other. Do you have any fans running to circulate the air in that tiny room? or is it just high humidity only?
Pictures please. :)
and welcome.
Hi again
I can post pictures hopefully today. But i cant at the moment. I don't use my computer that much, it would certainly help if i could access this website with my phone, does this forum perchance have an app or a mobile website?
direct sunlight, well pretty much all morning my room is blasted to hell and back with sunlight. but in the evening its all pretty mild. I know that gardenias prefer morning sun, so i hope this is a good thing.
I would say, and im not exactly sure so i am really lowballing here, but it must be at least 6 hours. up to and as much as 10 hours of direct sunlight can be expected for this spot, but no more. It always starts way before i wake up, so i never really know, but its always very early in the morning and stops at about noon but is dwindling by about 10am.
Now back to the gardenia, the biggest thing is scent. The more of that precious gardenia smell the merrier. I hadnt thought about the idea that there might be different varieties, i only know of 2 gardenia types, the ones which flower those huge rose-like, scented flowers, and the ones which have a smaller, more traditional flower with much less petals, but still lots of scent. I suppose whichever is easier to keep. It should be noted i cant have a huge gardenia bush in here, so smaller is better although i am much more than willing to do lots of trimming and pruning to compact growth.
Not much circulation, I have 3 fans though, 1 small usb powered, 1 big tower, and a dyson bladeless only like inches from this spot so i can use them if need be.
ok, so what is that first plant you posted?
I have the hardy gardenia, and after the first round of blooming, I haven't been able to convince it to keep its buds for a second bloom. I have a lot better luck with blooms on the african gardenia - it's quite a bloom powerhouse - every other week, it gives me a few blossoms. (and I'm sure she'd do even better if I were more regular with fertilizing).
There's a ton of options though - Tahitian gardenia, dwarf gardenia (I'm not having much luck with that one, currently), the african, the butterfly, and a whole lot of others. - you can see the variety from looking at the logees website. (I'd bought most of mine there - they come small, but extremely healthy - and it's up to the shopper to grow them big.)
That plant in the picture is the aeoneum decorum
it is not a rare plant in general, BUT this 1 is very rare. I am told it has some sort of mutation going on with its stem, which in turn has caused it to give the plant the look of intense age, and also the stem if you havent noticed is like an angled sheet of thick paper, its 1/16 inch thick and 10 inches across. Here's the fun part - I got it for free at Lowe's, it was in very poor shape and a customer turn in, only 1 there.
Ok, its official - I will get the African Gardenia
But i need to know something real quick - Is it absolutely necessary to water this gardenia using acidic water? And if so, my tap is realtively hard, do i need to do anything to it or can i leave it as-is? My tapwater ph is slightly above neutral, its about 7.2. Btw i have pretty good water here, its supposed to be the best in the area.
I just found a 60 watt clamp fluorescent light I just set it up and for now its over the bougainvillea, but in the future i want it to help the gardenia with acclimation considering it will be very stressed going across the united states in a pitch black box.
You will love the African. You don't have to stress over the acid... Water is good. Just fertilize regularly, and every so often do a flush for accumulated salts. When you repot, make sure that you make a mix that doesn't drown her. She likes lots of light. I have mine under 16+ hours lights, but back row(indirect) south window, too. (24w, t5 ho flourescent) . Mike Meyer told me that a little vinegar helps in the water. But I haven't had need to use that yet.
I ordered more plants from logees, yesterday too. It takes them a while to package and ship, but the plants are always beautiful on arrival. You'll get a tracking number when it ships.
That plant is cool, and to think you found it at lowes. I need to visit lowes more regularly. But the one time I went to mine, I hadn't been impressed.
This is one of my pothos's growing hydroponically. This was a tiny cutting with only 1 leaf less than 4 months ago. This has been my most successful cutting so far. However, it appears to be getting too much light in the front because the front leaves are very pale, probably the plant trying to reduce the amount of light the leaves absorb, while the leaves in the back of the plant are a dark green, the difference in colored leaves for 1 plant is quite dramatic.
I just started another experiment today. I just found out that my parents have an overgrown Jasmine vine growing in their yard, I googled how to root jasmine cuttings and here i am with 10 cuttings 9 are in 2 different water vases, 1 in soil. We will see what happens and if they will root. I didnt use rooting hormone but i have done this before with my pothos, and having over a 90% success rate with cuttings for the pothos in water, i thought i'd give this a try. My succulents only took about 5-6 days to root in soil, my pothos took an average of 10 days to root in water, about how long you think it would take a healthy, blooming bunch of jasmine cuttings to root in water?
Im thinking 2 weeks just because water always seems to take longer and jasmine is much more finicky indoors than pothos.
I just added a humidifier to this room. I realized my bougainvillea leaves are getting brown tips. I guess the tanks werent giving off as much humidity as i thought. I also bought a second grow light and im still the leading bidder for that 23 year old adenium on ebay. If all goes well it will be in my posesion by next Friday :). The African Gardenia shipped this morning and should be here by this Saturday. Can't wait. Im buying the soil and pot for it today, im gonnna use a mix of sand, perlite, and common cactus soil for the adenium.
You don't have to throw out the cuttings. Wash the leaves with a light solution of dish soap and water. and then put the stems in water and watch to see if you see any more infestation over the course of the next few days.
Be careful, my dear - it's very easy to go from owning a few plants to hoarding... Last year at this time, I had 5 plants ... now I have about 50 of them. :)
How easy it happens...
Hi i have just read online that a big problem with gardenias is bud blast, which is when the flower buds drop because of a lack of difference in temperature between day and night. is this something i need to pay attention to with the african gardenia, because unfortunetly my room has little to no difference in temp at night and day.
uh... I wouldn't know the answer to this. As it warms up, I can't imagine that there's much temp fluctuation in the south for gardenias - and yet they're southern plants, and bloom regularly down there.
Adenium guy, you seem to worry alot - you need a relaxation pill - you already bought the plant - let it arrive and enjoy it. What will be will be. If you notice bud drop - then we'll worry. Until it happens - no stress over what hasn't happened.
I have been incredibly surprised with this bougainvillea vine over the past week. Its growing much faster than i could have ever anticipated. I would not be surprised at all at this rate if i get flower buds in the next 5-10 days. I've never seen such growth in such a short time on any houseplant. In the last 5 days its gotten over 18 inches longer, grown over 40 more leaves, all of which are now a vibrant glossy green. Keeping in mind this is a small plant and its only in a 5 inch pot. I dont even recognize the pictures i took and posted on here from Saturday. Think of those pics above only completely covered from head to tail in leaves.
Hi, i have 1 quick concern about this african gardenia plant. So im reading that it is in fact not a true gardenia, but is a distant relative. This is not too much of a concern but i have now read multiple accounts from reviewers on the internet that the scent is nothing like a true gardenia? Since you have had yours flower, can you comment on this? I dont need identical scent, but if its not, what does it remind you of? How strong is the scent?
Your logees order came a lot faster than mine did . :( I evidently didn't pay attention for the order - a check box that said "don't mail all at once - for when an item was backordered" ... and, my package is in the mail now.
It should arrive between tonight and tomorrow, I think.
It looks healthy but the soil is constantly reading wet, and has for three weeks. Prior to that I was watering at least a gallon and a half of water once a week. The soil seems too wet to me? So I decided to wait until the meter went down at least half way. Still waiting. Should I repot? Water it anyway?
I bought my gardenia a year ago June. It has bloomed at least once. I have changed my feeding and watering over the year and a half based on what seemed to be happening and what I have read on this site.
My gardenia is a year and a half old. After reading much about the care of gardenias on this site I changed my watering habit. previously I watered it once a week with 1 1/2 gallons of water. In testing the soil, I see that it is very wet. So I decided to wait until the meter was at least down halfway. That was three weeks ago, Now I don't know what to do. Repot it? go ahead and water it? or wait? Here is a picture. It is in a south facing window under a grow light for 14 hours a day.


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What is the difference? I would think Whole hops would be better. However I have no idea.
"Whole hops" are just the cones. Some people call them "Whole Leaf" which is really a misnomer (named wrong). When used in a recipe it is common to use 10% more WH than pellet quantities unless the recipe specifies whole hops. Whole hop shelf life is shorter than pellets. All hops should be stored in a vacuum sealed bag in the freezer.
Pellets are pulverized whole hops. They are used per the recipe. Pellet shelf life is usually longer under the right conditions as they are formed tighter and have less of their surface exposed to the air.
Hop Cakes...that's a new one on me...let me know what kind of frosting you use... Actually, I think you mean "plugs". These are whole hops that usually come in pre-weighed 1/2 oz form. See "whole hops".
So i guess their is no taste difference? Just packaging and concetration levels?
How come you do not use a bag? So, the Lupulin, when pulverized releases what to make it better?
the pulverization of the hop material in the pelletization process reduces the material to mere flecks of vegetal matter thus increasing the surface area in the wort (supposedly). The rupturing of the lupulin glands provides for an easier breakdown of the oils (Alpha and Beta Acids) that are the compounds that provide the bittering, flavoring, and fragrance to our beers. the actual plant material is nothing more than a "wrapper" so to speak.
Pelletized hops calculate as a 10% increase in utilization, that is how much of the oils are extracted into the wort but at a cost to total available. It's suggested taht the processing causes a 10% or greater loss in total oils due to the rigorous manner in which they are handled in teh machinery.
Given the compact nature of the pellets, they are less suceptible to oxidative staling in that less surface are is available in packaging. the down side is that it takes a little more effort in the brewhouse to separate the material after boiling and the pellets don;t provide the break filtering aid that whole hops do.
Some suggest that whole hops provide for a smoother, fresher contribution to the wort in all respects but that is purely subjective. While they are less processed if you have ever seen what they go through to get to the bag you'd understand how much is still lost to the factory.
Whole hops come at a cost to storage space and to wort absorption. All that vegetal material can really soak up some wort in the kettle. The bags tend to take up a ton of room in the freezer too, even if you used a vacuum sealer. It's feasible to compare that the freezer space a few ounces of whole hops takes up, one could store nearly a pound of pellets.
Plugs (or cakes as you've put) are just a means to find a middle ground between the two. Some systems aren't designed to handle pellet filtering.
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