Category: Science
Drone delivers beer not bombs at S.Africa music festival
Drone delivers beer not bombs at S.Africa music festival South Africa- Drone delivers beer not bombs at S.Africa music festival
Revellers at a South African outdoor rock festival no longer need to queue to slake their thirst — a flying robot will drop them beer by parachute.
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Dolphin Deaths on the Rise in 2013
Dolphin Deaths on the Rise in 2013 A number of things can cause dolphins to strand, including harmful algal blooms, infectious viruses, injuries due to ship strikes, pollutants and human-made runoff, NOAA said. Although the cause has not been determined, early tissue analysis showed that one suspect could be morbillivirus, an infectious pathogen, said Teri Rowles, national marine mammal stranding coordinator for NOAA Fisheries.
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Help New York DEC watch for Asian longhorned Beetles
ALBANY — New York’s environmental agency wants to bolster its battle against invasive Asian longhorned beetles by tapping into a widespread network of bug traps, your backyard swimming pool filters.
The Department of Environmental Conservation is recruiting pool owners to participate in a survey through Aug. 30 to watch for the beetles before they cause serious damage to forests and street trees.
Asian longhorned beetles have killed hundreds of thousands of trees across the country by boring into the trunks. There has been heavy damage to maples in Long Island, parts of New York City, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Illinois. Foresters have responded by cutting down and removing infested trees.
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The Popocatepetl Volcano
The Environment Ministry has urged residents to take preventive measures to deal with the ash, including wearing dust masks, covering water supplies and staying indoors as needed.
Mexico City authorities recommend that people sweep up any ash and put it plastic bags to keep it from mixing with water and forming a concrete-like substance that can block drains.
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North Carolina Fireworks Ring Explosion
You do not see many of these types of firework explosions. Think about most of the fireworks videos you see. They typically explode from the center out, but these appear to explode in a ring pattern or formation. Let me know what you think?
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Asian Tiger Mosquitoes in Long Island
Named tigers because of their black and white stripes, they were initially spotted on Long Island 10 years ago. According to Mary Ellen Laurain, spokeswoman for the Nassau County Department of Health, the Asian tiger was first identified in the county through routine surveillance activities in 2003. In Suffolk, the first showed up in a mosquito trap put out by the county in 2004, Campbell said. They have been moving and have now spread into Brookhaven Town, with a few spotted on the South Fork, he said.
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Super Moon June 23rd 2013 Explained
The moon will come within 222,000 miles (357,000 kilometers) of Earth and turn full around 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT), making it the best time to view.This year’s closest and largest full moon will occur on June 23 at precisely 7:32 a.m. eastern. Astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon.
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Summer Gator 2013 Peconic River Long Island
Long Island, NY- State environmental officials are on the lookout for an alligator spotted near the Connecticut Avenue boat ramp along the Peconic River in Calverton.”We got the first report Sunday night. It was confirmed, seen by our officers, Wednesday,” Aphrodite Montalvo, a spokeswoman for the Long Island office of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said Friday.
The sighting is in the same area where DEC officials captured four young alligators in April, she said.
