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Hypoxia

Increasing Pollution, Dwindling Options

Donald Carr | Posted 11.19.2012 | Green
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Farming, Algae Bloom, Hypoxia, Water Pollution, Corn, Gulf of Mexico, Dead Zone, Regulation, Conservation, Industrial Agriculture, Fertilizer, Agricultural Pollution, Agriculture, Pollution, Green News
Donald Carr

Industrial agriculture, not manufacturing, gas drilling or mining, is the largest contributor to America's water pollution problem.

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Stealth Fighter Jet Chokes Another Pilot

AP | AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 09.09.2012 | Politics
Read More: Bad-News, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hypoxia, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Tyndall Air Force Base, Air Force, Oxygen Deprivation, Video, Military, Holloman Air Force Base, Stealth Fighter, Stealth Fighter Jet Flaw, F-22 Raptor, Nellis Air Force Base, Leon Panetta, Ap, Politics News

HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Air National Guard said Tuesday one of its pilots briefly experienced an oxygen deficit while flying an F-22 stealth figh...

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Defense Chief Restricts Flights Of Stealth Fighter That's Been Choking Pilots

Wired | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Pentagon, Nasa, Military, Hypoxia, Stealth Fighter, John Kirby, Adam Kinzinger, George Little, F-22 Raptor, Aviation, Navy, Air Force, Leon Panetta, Politics News

For five years, America’s most expensive fighter jets have been poisoning their pilots and crew. On Tuesday, the Defense Secretary finally stepped i...

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Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011 | Home
Read More: Aplastic Anemia, Bone Marrow Transplant, Hypoxia, Fukushima, Health Risks, Tokyo Electric Power, Nuclear Power, Fukushima-Dai-Ichi-Plant, Decomissioning, Nagasaki, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Immune System, Radiation, Chromosomes, Anemia, Leukemia, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Hiroshima, Spent Fuel Rods, Nuclear Proliferation, Joel Rauch M.D., Health Care, Three Mile Island, Home News
Alexia Parks

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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Dead Zones, Now in More Frightening Detail!

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Sewage, Agricultural Runoff, Hypoxia, Oceans, Ocean Dead Zones, Industrial Agriculture, Eutrophication, Dead Zone, Green News
Peter Hanlon

2011-03-10-hypoxia.jpg A new interactive map of oceanic dead zones charts hundreds of areas across the globe where sewage and fertilizer runoff have created areas virtually uninhabitable for most marine life.

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Weathering the Oil Spill: Tar Balls, Streamers, and Eddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Hypoxia, Bp, Dead Zone, Science, Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill, Oil Spill Tar Balls, Lindsey Graham, Policy, BP America, Barack Obama, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Politics, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenco, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Deepwater Horizon, Oil, Environment, Offshore Energy, Noaa, Climate Bill, Loop Current, Subsurface Plume, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Today's oil spill news is dominated by Obama's Oval Office speech, but the highlight for me was a quiet update by the head of NOAA yesterday.

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Water: The Circle Game or Up the Down Staircase

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Peak Water, Hypoxia, Gulf of California, Ecosystem Services, Peak Oil, Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico, M. King Hubbert, Ecosystems, Wetlands, Colorado River, Peter Gleick, Ogallala Aquifer, Mississippi River, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with www.thegreengrok.com.We've all heard about peak oil, but is there such a thing as peak water? The concept of peak production in a res...

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The Dead Zone Diet

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Biotechnology, Agribiz, Monsanto, Hypoxia, Claire Cummings, Fish, Frances Moore Lappé, Sustainability, Industrial Agriculture, Dead Zones, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Steak or salmon? Enjoy your dithering while you can, folks. It's Agribiz vs. Aquabiz, and at the moment, the farmers are beating the waders off of the fishermen.

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