Category Archives: Pollution

How Kodak detected the nuclear tests and the effects on all of us

Posted on 3 January, 2021 by Eclipse Now

Veritasium at his best! While there were 219 atmospheric tests in America alone and the fallout spread across most of the USA, it shows that dispersed fallout is not a civilisation ending event. Two hundred and nineteen nuclear devices were … Continue reading →

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Solar not so ‘clean’ after all!

Posted on 9 June, 2019 by Eclipse Now

Don’t want a nuclear power plant in your backyard? What about a rare-earth’s mine for solar panels? This tailings dam is 11.5km in diameter. Wikipedia explains that “Chemicals in the dam have been linked to lower crop yields in surrounding … Continue reading →

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World now more middle class than poor

Posted on 16 December, 2018 by Eclipse Now

Interesting! Sept 2018 marks the point where (finally!) more of the world is wealthy than poor. I remember being told to refer to poor underdeveloped nations as the ‘2/3rd’s world’ because it was the majority. That has shifted somewhat. There’s … Continue reading →

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Precise, eloquent, artistic… heartbreaking

Posted on 7 June, 2018 by Eclipse Now

Our oceans. I’ve written about them before, but sometimes not felt it. This helped me feel it. 😦

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Seabin catches plastics at the river or harbour

Posted on 26 December, 2015 by Eclipse Now

Now this is interesting

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