Posted by feww on April 24, 2012
DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,422 Days Left
[24 April 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,422 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History
Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background
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Posted by feww on April 24, 2012
Mongolia’s Tuul River threatened by persistent drought
The 700-km Tuul River supplies water to Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, where more than half of Mongolia’s population live, and is now drying up due to ongoing severe drought in the country.
Original caption: Photo taken on April 24, 2012, shows the dry river bed of Tuul River in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. The Tuul River has partly dried up recently owing to drought, affecting the water supply of Ulan Bator, where near a half of the country’s population live. (Xinhua/Huang Longjie)
The river, which is considered sacred by Mongols, originates in the Khentii Mountains and runs through the southern part of the capital.
Tuul has also been plagued by pollution including leaks from the capital’s sewage treatment facility and runoffs from gold mining.
- Peru. About 900 dead dolphins and porpoises have have washed ashore on the beaches of northern Peru between February and mid-April, reports said.
- The animals may have died from an outbreak of Morbillivirus or Brucella bacteria, a type of distemper, Peru’s Deputy Environment Minister told AP.
- The officials have denied any link between the cetaceans mass die-off and seismic oil exploration work that was carried out off northern Peru between February 8 and April 8 by BPZ Energy, a Houston-based company.
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