Posted by feww on July 9, 2012
Half million salmon to be destroyed due to infectious salmon anemia
An outbreak of infectious salmon anemia at a fish farm near Conne River in Newfoundland and Labrador has been confirmed by Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
The operators, Gray Aqua Group, have been ordered to destroy more than 450,000 salmon. They claim the virus is being contained to one site.
In March, CFIA ordered a Nova Scotia fish farm outside Shelburne Harbour to destroy hundreds of thousands of salmon following a similar outbreak.
Last month, another outbreak was suspected in Nova Scotia, but the tests were said to be ‘inconclusive.’
“Outbreaks of infectious salmon anemia in New Brunswick in the late 1990s dealt a blow to the aquaculture industry there at the time and the federal government provided tens of millions of dollars in compensation,” said a report.
Other Global Disasters/ Significant Events
- U.S. Corn Belt. Drought and heat wave are affecting production of grain crops in the U.S. Corn Belt. Iowa and Illinois, which produce about 35% of the U.S. corn and soybeans, are particularly hard hit.
- Drought conditions, have intensified since last week across the U.S. (see comparison map below) and already caused irrevocable damage to crops in southern Illinois, Indiana and Missouri.
- “By Sunday or Monday, if we don’t get rain here, we will be losing anywhere between 7 to 9 percent of our yield potential,” said Roger Elmore, corn agronomist at Iowa State University in Ames. “If it drags on into next week, it is going to be worse.”
- Abnormally Dry and Drought Conditions (D0 – D4) currently prevail in 76.33% of the contiguous United States, the largest area than at any other time since the U.S. Drought Monitor began more than 12 years ago.
U.S. Drought Map. Released July 5, 2012
‘Farming in Hell’
- As of July 1, crops were in the worst condition since 1988, as the Midwest heat wave last week set or tied nearly 1,100 temperature records.
- “The drought is much worse than last year and approaching the 1988 disaster. There are crops that won’t make it. The dairy and livestock industries are going to get hit very hard. People are just beginning to realize the depth of the problem,” according to the CEO of Rochester, Prairie Mills Products LLC, an Indiana-based grain processor.
- The persistent drought has hit plants during the most vulnerable time in their growing cycle, killing their pollen.
- “Corn yields were falling five bushels a day during the past week” in the worst-affected parts of the Midwest, said Fred Below, a plant biologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana. “You couldn’t choreograph worse weather conditions for pollination. It’s like farming in hell.”
Krasnodar region, Russia.
- At least 171 lives have been lost in the devastating flooding and landslides in in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, reported RT.
- 17 others have been reported as missing.
- “Some 584 people, 83 children among them, have sought medical aid following the flood. Medics have hospitalized 159 people, including sixteen children.”
- At least 3,000 have been evacuated.
- About 35,000 people have been affected by the disaster.
Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background
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Posted by feww on July 8, 2012
Deadly heat persists in eastern U.S.
At least 46 people have died amid extreme heat that has paralyzed more than two dozen states from the Midwest to the East Coast.
Heat-related fatalities occurred in Virgina (at least 12 deaths reported), Maryland (11), Chicago (10), Wisconsin (4), Ohio (3), Pennsylvania (3) Tennessee (2), and Indiana (1), where an infant died after being left in a vehicle in triple-digit temperatures outside her home in Greenfield, about 25 miles east of Indianapolis.
Hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland and Indiana are still without power 9 days after deadly storms swept through the region causing widespread destruction and ‘catastrophic damage’ to power grids.
Map of Temperature Departure from Normal
Other Global Disasters/ Significant Events
- Krasnodar Region, Russia. The worst flooding in living memory in southern Russia’s Krasnodar Region, near the Black Sea, has left at least 153 people dead and and more than 5,000 homes destroyed or damaged, reports said.
- “The flash flood inundated the cities of Gelendzhik, Krymsk and Novorossiysk as well as the four villages of Divnomorskoe, Nizhnebakanskaya, Neberdzhaevskaya and Kabardinka.”
- “The streets of Krymsk are now mostly deserted. The town looks like the set of a post-apocalyptic movie,” RT reported .
- About 3,000 people have been evacuated from flood-hit areas in Krasnoda, as of posting, while 30,000 people are without power in the region, and more than 80 percent of the population of Krymsk have lost their gas supply cut off.
Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Up-to-date weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa
- Week of June 24, 2012: 395.33 ppm
- Weekly value from 1 year ago: 393.50 ppm
- Weekly value from 10 years ago: 375.08 ppm
Recent Mauna Loa CO2
- June 2012: 395.77 ppm
- June 2011: 393.68 ppm
Recent Global CO2
- May 2012: 393.77 ppm
- May 2011: 391.90 ppm
Links to Recent Related Entries
- Drought Disaster Declared in Montana Posted on July 5, 2012
- Colorado Declared Agri Disaster Area Posted on July 4, 2012
- Disaster Declared in 94 Counties across 4 States Posted on July 3, 2012
- Deadly Heat Blankets Eastern U.S. Posted on July 2, 2012
- States of Emergency Declared in 4 States and DC as Storm Death Toll Rises Posted on July 1, 2012
- Deadly Heat Wave Affects Third of U.S. Population Posted on June 30, 2012
- The record-setting heat wave continues to expand Posted on June 30, 2012
- Explosive Wildfires Continue Erupting Across the U.S. Posted on June 29, 2012
- Destructive Wildfire Activity Intensifies in Colorado Posted on June 28, 2012
- Drought 2012 Posted on January 8, 2012
Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background
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