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Friday, June 4, 2010
From the Inbox - Don't let Mitsubishi destory a national treasure
From the Inbox - Obama faces dangers of offshore drilling
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NRDC president Frances Beinecke applauds President Obama's announcement that he is extending the moratorium on offshore drilling and calling a time out on lease sales off the coast of Alaska. But the president should go further and focus on the root cause of the tragedy in the gulf. Read Frances Beinecke's full post.
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Join Robert Redford in calling on President Obama to lead us to a clean energy future.
His Forecast is Very Clear
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Corrosive Waters: How Carbon Dioxide is Altering the Oceans
Expeditions left Everest dirty
The upper part of the Everest is littered with the detritus of the past expeditions including human waste, oxygen bottles, plastics and of course mountaineers' corpses. The extreme cold up there lets nothing decompose.Earlier, the rubbish used to be hidden under the snow. Now it has come out to the surface with the melting of snow.
Mount Everest poses a whole new problem -- the garbage.
On the eve of the International Everest Day, Apa Sherpa (at right) who climbed up the Everest record 20 times said, the global warming is changing the environment of the Everest.
“Now it has become even hard to climb the mountain,” said Apa Sherpa at a program held in Kathmandu.
He announced in the program that he would not climb the Everest for any commercial purpose anymore. “I'll only climb it for a cause,” said Apa, who led an Everest clean-up program in 2008 and cleaned up to 965 kg of garbage.
“Now onward my climb will be dedicated to highlight the impact of climate change on Himalayas and people living in the region,” said Apa at
the program.Thousands of mountaineers climb the mountains every year and leave wastages above 8,000 meters that have become known as the world's highest rubbish tip with empty oxygen bottles, old ropes, food and remnants of tents.
“Yes, beside the dead bodies, I saw garbage at the upper part of the Everest,” said Musa Ibrahim, when asked about the environmental degradation of the Everest.
“Especially the human excreta, it does not have any management up on the Everest,” said Musa who climbed the Everest along the North Alpine on Tibet side.
Up to the advance base camp, China-Tibet Mountaineering Association (CTMA) do clean up every year before the mountaineering season starts
in April and May, he said.But at the South Col on Nepal side and at the North Col at the Tibet side every year piles of garbage, some of human corpses are adding to the detritus made earlier.
Litter on the mountain was a significant environmental problem until the Nepalese government imposed strict rules forcing visitors to keep it clean, said an official of Nepal Board of Tourism.
This year the Extreme Everest Expedition team off to Everest from
Kathmandu on April 6 and brought down seven tons of rubbish down to Base Camp at 5,200 meters high.Earlier, many teams have tried to clear the mountain, Namgyal Sherpa, leader of the Extreme Everest Expedition 2010, said no one had tried it at 8,000 meters height called the death zone.
''This is the first time we are cleaning the death zone. It's very difficult and dangerous,'' said Namgyal, who has topped the Everest seven times, told the reporters earlier when they started their journey.
The zone earned its name because it is almost impossible to survive the harsh temperatures and thin air of such altitudes for more than a few
days. Anyone who stays in the zone for longer will likely perish.At this altitude oxygen levels are a third of what they would be at sea level.
Scores of corpses preserved by the freezing temperatures remain on the mountain, some for decades.
''I have seen 10 to 12 corpses lying there above the North Col. I heard some of them are lying there for years,'' said Musa.
Nepali Mountaineering Association Sources said, in the South Col (Nepali side) also there are many bodies still lying on the mountain.
In 1999, a research expedition found the remains of George Mallory, a British mountaineer, who disappeared with ropemate Andrew Irvine in 1924.Experts have long debated whether the pair had reached the summit before perishing. The find did not provide conclusive evidence. A service was held for Mallory and his body left where it was, says a website called everestnews.com.
More than 4000 climbers have scaled Everest since Ed. Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did it on May 29, 1953, different sources say.
Source:
The Daily Star, "Expeditions left Everest dirty", accessed June 2, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Claim your business on Google and make the most of soccer fever!
People all over the US and Canada already use Google Maps to search for pubs, bars and restaurants in their local area. And with soccer’s biggest event fast approaching, millions of fans will be looking for a great venue to enjoy the tournament. Now is your chance to create your free Google business listing and stand out during the games.
This will only be available for a limited time, so make sure that you sign up before May 31, 2010!
Just follow these 3 easy steps to set up your Google business listing:
- Click "Register Now". If you do not already have a free Google account you can create one first.
- Enter your personal access code on your ticket and you’ll find your business’s key address information already in place for you. Add to this basic information with details about your business, such as opening times.
- Flag yourself as a viewing location to make the most of soccer fever!
Read more: http://www.google.com/landing/showfootball/
Green River Utah Structural Geology 3D Visualization
Our visualization begins with a north-up overhead view of an area of Utah between Green River and Moab. The La Sal mountains are in the lower right portion of the viewpoint. Both Landsat satellite imagery and geological interpretive maps are overlaid onto a flat surface, which will later become three dimensional. As the camera moves into position near the South East corner of the working area, the geologic cross sections will be extruded to true height above sea level, reaching vertically out of the flat terrain surface.
Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHd6_cIT44
Visualizing the BP Oil Spill Disaster
Read more: http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/