by Germán Orizaola and Pablo Burraco,The Conversation
The accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute exposure to high doses of radiation was severefor the environment and the human population
View original post 758 more words
“Climate change is the shadow of this recent cavalcade of industriousness, since it results from the burning of fossil fuels, the main enablers of modern civilization. Nevertheless, rapidly increasing population and consumption levels are inherently unsustainable and are bringing about catastrophic environmental impacts on their own,even if we disregard the effects of carbon emissions. The accelerating depletion of resources, increasing loads of chemical pollution, and the hastening loss of wild nature are trends leading us toward ecological collapse, with economic and social collapse no doubt trailing close behind. Ditching fossil fuels will turn these trends around only if we also deal with the issues of population and consumption.“
“This is not a feel-good message, but the longer we postpone grappling with power in this larger sense, the less successful we’re likely to be in coming to terms…
View original post 4 more words
Jing Pan
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/president-biden-just-warned-nuclear-140000881.html
Sun, October 9, 2022 at 7:00 AM·5 min read
Investors often watch the markets and the economy. But in this day and age, you might also want to pay attention to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine — because the consequences could be dire.
After Russian officials spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons, U.S. President Joe Biden warned that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” hasn’t been this high in 60 years.
“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” he said at a Democratic fundraiser on Thursday.
“He is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological and chemical weapons, because his military is, you…
View original post 807 more words
Mountain bikers and hunters are butting heads in Colorado over wildlife, access, and public lands
Oct 6, 2022
Outside’s long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors.Sign up today.
In April, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, a hunting education and advocacy organization, circulated a press release offering a $500 reward “for reports or information leading to a conviction of those responsible for illegal trail construction on public lands.” In other words, the national nonprofit placed what amounted to a bounty on mountain bikers building illegal trails.
The Colorado chapter of BHA sent the press release directly to two publications: Boulder’sDaily Cameranewspaper and theMountain Ear, which services Nederland, a town 18 miles up Boulder Canyon. The bounty technically applies to the entire state of Colorado, but the memo indicated that it was targeted at…
View original post 1,353 more words
By
10/7/2022
Listen to article1 minute
roibu ofiStockphoto.com
Bird flu was discovered in a backyard flock in the Albuquerque area, making New Mexico the 42nd state where the viral disease has been confirmed this year, said theAgriculture Departmenton Thursday. More than47 millionbirds in domestic flocks, mostly chickens and turkeys, have died or were culled in efforts to stop the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza since early February.
By reducing the size of the U.S. laying flock, bird flu has driven up egg prices. The price of turkey breast meat has also been affected, according to analysts.
Losses topped 47 million birds this week, with outbreaks that included 159,500 game birds on a farm in central Nebraska. There were three large outbreaks in California: a turkey farm in Stanislaus County with…
View original post 22 more words
CHICAGO, Oct 7 (Reuters) – A highly lethal form of avian flu infected a commercial flock of breeding chickens in Arkansas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday, widening an outbreak of the disease in the key southern producing region.
Nationwide, more than 47 million birds have been killed by avian flu or culled to control its spread this year in the nation’s worst outbreak since a record 50 million birds were wiped out in 2015.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue
Report an ad
Top states for raising broiler chickens for meat, such as Georgia and Alabama, had largely escaped infections in commercial flocks before the case in Arkansas.
Arkansas produced more than 1 billion broiler chickens last year, making it the third biggest producing state, U.S. government data show.
The disease hit a commercial broiler breeder chicken flock in Madison County, Arkansas, in the northwest corner of…
View original post 107 more words
Brian Whipkey
Pennsylvania Outdoors Columnist
AD
0:18
https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.538.0_en.html#goog_182593035
Men from each side of Pennsylvania are joining forces in an effort to help youth learn to enjoy the outdoors
Ray Taylor, 72, of Forest City, in Susquehanna County, created the“Pa Youth Deer Hunters” Facebook groupand Jim Liebert, 58, of Indiana Township, in Allegheny County, operates thePA Hunters Toolbox (pahunterstoolbox.com)website.
The two are partnering to provide information and opportunities for families to better understand and appreciate hunting.
Taylor started the Facebook group because of what he noticed while hunting with his 11-year-old grandson, Sammy Skarupa.
“I hunt with him daily, that’s how I started as a kid,” he said, recalling shooting a woodchuck at age 12 while hunting with his grandfather. “That was everything to me,” he said about times in the woods with his grandfather.
Changes may be coming:Antlerless deer license legislation movement stops Game…
View original post 917 more words
by Bill TrotterOctober 7, 2022Updated 6 mins ago
Donald Trump Jr., the son of the former president, shot a bull moose during the first week of the state’s annual moose hunting season while visiting Maine last week.
Craig Corsi, who operates Grove Hill Outfitters…
View original post 165 more words
Published onOctober 7, 2022October 7, 2022inWyoming outdoors/News/wildlife/Hunting
***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***
By Mark Heinz, outdoors reporter
Mark@CowboyStateDaily.com
A Wyoming bull elk that was shot on public land Monday, but made it on to private property before dying a slow death, was left to rot, the hunter who shot the bull claimed.
Josh Sunberg, an Iowa resident who frequently hunts in Wyoming, said he went back to the kill site later this week to see if the bull’s carcass was still there, and it was.
“By that time the meat would have been spoiled already,” Sunberg said in a text message to Cowboy State Daily on Friday.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department declined to comment further on the matter, agency spokeswoman Sara DiRienzo said in an email to Cowboy State Daily on Friday.
Wanton Waste Of Game…
View original post 279 more words
by Emilie KylerSaturday, October 8th 2022
MSPAC perform aerial hoist rescue for injured hunter in Ellicott City (Phot Credit: Maryland State Police Aviation Command)
Ellicott City, Md. (WBFF) —Troopers from the Maryland State Police Aviation Command performed an aerial hoist rescue early Friday morning in Howard County.
Police said the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services requested MSPAC at approximately 8 a.m. for a hunter who had fallen 20 to 30 feet from a tree in a remote and wooded area of Cascade Falls Trail.
ALSO READ |City sends North Ave. sinkhole victims letter saying they’ll be billed for demolition
The hunter was suffering multiple rib fractures and a possible pelvic fracture, police say, and an ATV was not able to reach them. Due to the severity of the injuries and limited ground accessibility, police sent an aviation crew.
Video from our partnersBrought to…
View original post 86 more words
