Disaster Accident

Potential Hazards at Both Ends of the Lithium-Ion Life Cycle

6 mars, 2013 - 06:03
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/fuel-cells/potential-hazards-at-both-ends-of...

TMTV Originally Published by IEEE Spectrum - Battery recycling is a delicate business.

Chemical Tankers Collide in Gulf of Mexico

22 février, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://ens-newswire.com/2013/02/21/chemical-tankers-collide-in-gulf-of-mexico/

Originally Published by ENS

– An oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico was averted by the quick action of crew members aboard one of two inbound chemical tankers that collided on Wednesday, approximately 70 miles south of Galveston, Texas.

Cockermouth poets tell a watery tale

20 février, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/feb/19/cockermouth-floods-2009-...

Originally Published by The Guardian

– More than 80 ways of looking in verse at floods, torrents, waterspouts, seas, rain – and a faraway desert.

After Assault From the Heavens, Russians Search for Clues and Count Blessings

17 février, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80435&src=eorss-iotd

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

– Russians are still coming to terms with what NASA scientists say was a 7,000-ton chunk of space rock that hurtled out of the sky at 40,000 miles an hour, exploding over the Ural Mountains, spraying debris for miles around and, amazingly, killing no one.

CLIMATE CHANGE: In the Arab world, building fridges to live in an oven

13 février, 2013 - 08:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96974/CLIMATE-CHANGE-In-the-Arab-world-building-f...
DOHA 05 December 2012 (IRIN) - In the last three decades, 50 million people in the Arab world have been affected by natural disasters, many of them extreme climate events, according to a new report by the World Bank. The report projects the horrific scenario of temperatures regularly rising to over 50 degrees Celsius by the turn of the century, which experts fear could lead to countless more disasters.

February Blizzard Strikes U.S. Northeast

13 février, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Earthzine/~3/yckwBI5v6pw/view.php

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

– This time-lapse animation shows the merging of two storm fronts into a potent, hurricane-force blizzard in February 2013.

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