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POPSIndian Engineer 'builds' new glaciers via Cakebelly (Amplify) cakebelly says: “So far, Mr Norphel’s glaciers have been able to each store up to one million cubic feet of ice, which in turn can irrigate 200 hectares of farm land. For farmers, that can make the difference between crop failure and a bumper crop of more than 1,000 tons of wheat. The “iceman” says he has seen the effects of global warming on farmland as snows have become thinner on the ground and ice rivers have melted away never to return. His own work has now been recognised by the Indian government, which has given him £16,000 to build five new glaciers. But time is his enemy, he told The Hindustan Times. “I’m planning to train villagers with instruction CDs that I have made, so that I can pass on the knowledge before I die,” he said. “
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POPSThe Dust Storm Saga We here are still engulfed by dust and smoke from fires. The dust carried all the way to the very top of queensland and across the ocean to kiwi land. People here have no idea how much is dust and how much smoke. There is a difference though our skies are a white haze - so the sun looks like the moon and I wrote to friends and said, "I feel like I am on the moon looking at the moon's moon." Strange is an understatement. The second photo is one I took today we are almost into a whole week of the dust, haze storm. Personally, I have not been too affected by it. This article from BBC is interesting though. We had floods earlier this year that flooded 60% of Queensland. A good friend here, has a husband who works in a mine inland. The Environmental Protection Agency called for it to be closed down because the tailings dam was overflowing into the main water catchment for the town and all the towns further downstream. It had a pH of 2.
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POPSNKorea intentionally caused flood: Seoul minister "The incident threatens to damage cross-border relations which had lately been improving. Asked if the discharge was intentional or a mistake, Unification Minister Hyun In-Taek told parliament: "I think the North did it intentionally." Hyun was the first South Korean official publicly to assert that the release of the water was intentional."
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POPSGiant Dams: Mutli-Threats to Humans and Planet
Hydropower dams may play a role in creating and releasing methane but the greater danger has not yet been investigated or evaluated. What's that? What effect(s) does the disruption and rapid change of the larger natural system cause? Multiple dams on the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers aided river transportation and controlled some annual flooding beginning in the 1930s. The result(s)? The Mississippi Delta not only stopped growing, it has begun to disappear. The natural barrier that helped to protect New Orleans from storm surges undermined - literally. Redistribution of soil along all the rivers - history and greater reliance on fertilizers and pesticides. There is now a 70 mile dead zone at the end of the Mississippi that is growing each year. The Three Gorges Dam complex in China - its impact(s)? Flyways of migratory birds disrupted/altered. A role in the spread of Avian Flu? Who's got a bandage for my foot, I think we shot ourselves again!
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POPSOutside: reflections on a neighborhood Written by an Iraq veteran I know who's having what sounds like a fairly typical rough adjustment to being back (and a typical struggle to get necessary care for service-related injuries from the VA). Long, but well worth reading. More: There's nothing so comfortable as a prejudice confirmed, even if it takes machinations and deprivation to bring that about. Another one is pain. T's uncle was hurt in an industrial accident that broke his hip, pelvis, both legs, and some vertebrae. The bones never set right, or were not set right, perhaps, by an indifferent physician, who looked at his record or heard from R himself about busts and brawls and concluded that the man would merely injure himself again, as 'they' always do. It's hard to conceive of a future when you do have a past. So R gets a vast amount of Vicodan per month, only some of which he uses, because his preferred anesthetic is liquid. When someone is creative, we view that as a tragedy.…
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POPSMajor pre-Columbian sites found in Puerto Rico more (at source): The plaza may contain other artifacts dating from 600 A.D. to 1500 A.D., including piles of refuse from daily life, Rivera said. "I have visited many sites and have never seen a plaza of that magnitude and of those dimensions and with such elaborate petroglyphs," said Miguel Rodriguez, member of the government's archaeological council and director of a graduate school in Puerto Rico that specializes in history and humanities. He is not involved in the excavation project. Archeologists have known since 1985 that the area contained indigenous artifacts. But their extent and significance only became clear this month when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on removing them so the land could be used for a dam project.
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