1. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    vor Ort noch liefen und das Gebäude in Flammen stand, könnten die Zahlen aber noch deutlich ansteigen. Unter den Verletzten seien auch mindestens acht Kinder, heißt es... * Trockenheit | Grundwasser | Wassermangel Die Dürre ist vorbei – nur wie lange? Meteorologen haben die Dürre in Deutschland für beendet erklärt. Doch sie warnen, dass sich die Situation schnell wieder ändern kann. In Südeuropa...

  2. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    oder Pfannen. Doch die PFAS-Chemikalien haben einen großen Nachteil: Sie sind nur von äußert wenigen Mikroben abbaubar und gelangen daher aus den PFAS-haltigen Produkten über das Grundwasser auch in die Umwelt und in unsere Lebensmittel. Im menschlichen Körper beträgt die Halbwertszeit der PFAS circa vier bis neun Jahre. Deshalb werden sie auch als „Ewigkeitschemikalien“ bezeichnet. Immer wieder...

  3. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Atom power plantsPlag Vermont_Yankee_(USA) In 2010 it turned out that radioactive water containing tritium had leaked into the groundwater. The operator incurred costs of $821 million. In addition, cesium-137 was detected on the site. As a result of the contamination of the soil, the state decided...

  4. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    “Hundreds of thousands of people have sought protection in the south of Gaza on Israeli instructions,” argued the Foreign Minister. "They can't just disappear into thin air."... * Climate Change | Groundwater | Drought Large-scale “Nature” study: Groundwater levels are falling worldwide Climate change is increasing the need for water to grow food. This is why the...

  5. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    The glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet alone will cause the global oceans to rise by up to five meters when they have completely melted. Emden is one meter high... * Groundwater | evaporation | Seawater desalination Without groundwater recharge, the region will dry out. In the past 20 years, the groundwater level in Brandenburg has fallen significantly. Researchers...

  6. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    Earth layers are pressed to banish it from the atmosphere. Opponents of the CCS projects, especially in Schleswig-Holstein, feared leaks, artificial earthquakes and risks to groundwater. [...] Until now, the technology has also been very controversial in politics. The Greens and the SPD in particular spoke out against it, but the Union and FDP also considered them...

  7. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    to supply the world population. But it's too salty. According to a recent study by the United Nations University for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), tapping river and groundwater and collecting rainwater will no longer be able to meet global water needs. Desalination plants increasingly in demand Today, 22.000 desalination plants in around 170 countries already produce...

  8. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    the US state of New York said that "alarmingly high" radiation levels had been detected at the nuclear power plant; Tritium-contaminated water apparently leaked from the power plant. Up to 296 Bq per liter were measured in the groundwater of neighboring towns; the limit value is 0,45 Bq. The nuclear power plant is only about 40 km away from New York... August 3rd Dear...

  9. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Water leakage accident in the Jülich experimental reactor, which was only assigned to the then lowest category C, led to high contamination of the cooling circuit and the soil and groundwater under the reactor with strontium-90 and tritium. Critics of the pebble bed reactor concept suspect that the classification of this event as...

  10. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Bis heute haben die japanische Regierung und der Betreiber TEPCO die Lage nicht unter Kontrolle. Die zerstörten Reaktoren können nicht betreten werden, und radioaktives Wasser verseucht das Grundwasser und den pazifischen Ozean. Dies muss man sich vergegenwärtigen, um den Grad der Verantwortungslosigkeit der japanischen Regierung bei der Entscheidung ermessen zu können, nach dem GAU...

  11. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Eurodif#Störfall... The radioactive solution seeped into the ground and got through the sewage system into the smaller rivers Gaffière and Lauzon, the Rhone, and possibly also into the groundwater... Information about the amount of pollutants released varies between 6,25 cubic meters Solution with around 75 kilograms of unenriched uranium (operator information) and 30 cubic meters of solution with...

  12. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    had agreed to a total of 1,2 billion dollars, the consumer goods and medical technology manufacturer 3M also has to pay a large sum of up to 12,5 billion dollars... * Drought | Groundwater | Precipitation Hydrologist on climate change: How Germany is losing its groundwater How can we live well despite global warming? Hydrologist Borchardt pleads with Lanz for...

  13. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    provides a financial injection of US$694 million. Incidents In 2006, Excelon was accused of discharging millions of gallons of tritum-contaminated wastewater into the groundwater from spring 1996 to March 2006, which the operator did not report until December 2005. For example, on June 16, 2005, tritium leaked from the nuclear power plant and contaminated the local water supply; the damage...

  14. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    Limits of the planet's resilience are not exceeded. This concerns global warming, the condition and functionality of ecosystems, the availability of surface and groundwater, as well as the pollution of the air and the environment with pollutants, nitrogen and phosphorus. The study is based on scientific findings from recent years as well as...

  15. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    the RWTH in Aachen. “The negative pole, the anode, on the other hand, still looks almost the same as it did 30 years ago.” It is made of graphite, a special structure made of carbon... * Climate change | Groundwater | Lakes Water loss in lakes Researcher warns of extreme consequences for biodiversity Many lakes in Germany are also suffering from drought and climate change. A danger to the...

  16. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    There were still “197 destroyed or atomized fuel elements” that were then encased in concrete. During the incident, large amounts of strontium-90 and tritium are said to have escaped and entered the groundwater... May 12th Climate protection | Kini Jödler | Announcements E-fuels and nuclear fusion: Söder's fairy tale hour Creating climate neutrality through price doesn't work. Also nuclear fusion,...

  17. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    For example, to ensure local load peaks and to feed in electricity during times when there is little wind. They are to be integrated into existing or yet to be built offshore wind farms... April 27th Groundwater | Drought despite rain | Water shortage “It should rain for a year” In March it rained more than it had in years - why is there still a threat of drought? 2022 was very sunny, hot and...

  18. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    be informed. It is not clear from the Ministry of the Environment's statement why the area was only closed a year after the elevated values ​​were discovered... * France | Drought | Groundwater | Forest fires A little water for tomatoes, a little for nuclear power France is in a state of climatic emergency and is fighting over water: the groundwater is drying up, the protests...

  19. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    receive. * Drinking water | Glyphosate | Pesticide New material efficiently filters glyphosate from water The plant protection agent (pesticide) glyphosate can be found in almost all running waters and in groundwater. A new filter based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can efficiently filter the controversial chemical from water because the binding of glyphosate to the filter material ...

  20. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    Analyzes have shown that 15,2 billion tons of water have been lost from its natural water reservoirs - that corresponds to 760 million tons of water every year. This loss of water, groundwater and soil occurs because since 2002, less water has been added through inflows and precipitation than has been lost through evaporation and runoff. Especially since 2015, the balance sheet of...

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