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An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency's first marine sampling since treated radioactive wastewater started being released from the area's damaged nuclear plant into the sea IWAKI, Japan -- A member of the International Atomic Energy Agency team visiting Fukushima for its first marine sampling since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started releasing treated radioactive waste water into the sea said Thursday he does not expect any rise in radiation levels in the fish caught in the regional seas. The IAEA team watched flounder and other popular kinds of fish being caught off the coast earlier Thursday and brought on boats to the Hisanohama port in southern Fukushima for an auction. “I can say that we don’t expect to see any change starting in the fish," said Paul McGinnity, an IAEA marine radiology scientist. A small rise in the levels of tritium, which cannot be removed from the Fukushima Daiichi wastewater by the plant'...

Climate change and human activity are causing the world's hydrological cycle to spin out of balance. Climate change and human activity are causing the world's hydrological cycle to spin out of balance, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. Global water cycles are becoming " increasing ly erratic" due to droughts, extreme rainfall and the increased melting of snow, ice and glaciers -- all of which are a threat to long-term water security, the 2022 State of Global Water Resources report, released Thursday, found. MORE: Climate change is making climbing in the Himalayas more challenging, experts say About 3.6 billion people already face inadequate access to water at least a month per year, according to the United Nations. That number is expected to increase to 5 billion by 2050, officials said. Extreme glacier loss is occurring from the Tibetan Plateau to mountain ranges in the Himalayas, the Alps and the Andes -- all of which threate...

Italian health authorities are intensifying heat warnings as southern Europe enters a brutally hot week ROME -- Italian health officials intensified heat warnings Monday as southern Europe began a brutally hot week with temperatures expected to top 40 Celsius — or 104 Fahrenheit — on a continent already sizzling under the sun and overburdened by tourists. The Health ministry urged regions to beef up house-call services so older people don't have to go out if they need medical care and to set up dedicated heat stations at hospitals to treat emergency cases. The ministry also issued 10 recommendations to protect elderly people, the sick and pets from the heat, urging people to stay indoors during the hottest hours, drink at least 1.5 liters (nearly half a gallon) of water a day and refrain from strenuous exercise at peak daylight times. Local celebrities went on state-run RAI television to read the recommendations aloud, in hopes of spreading the message. The culprit is a high-press...

The operators of the underwater robot that located the missing submersible Titan quickly learned that it was up to them to find the vessel after other deep-sea experts had tried unsuccessfully EAST AURORA, N.Y. -- When Edward Cassano and his colleagues arrived in the remote stretch of ocean where the Titan submersible had gone missing, they quickly learned that they would have to do what other deep-sea experts had already tried unsuccessfully: to find the lost sub in some of the most forbidding depths of the North Atlantic. They set to work deploying their own remotely operated vehicle, the Odysseus, from a ship with a giant “umbilical cord,” then lowered the behemoth to the ocean floor, a process that took about an hour and a half, Cassano said Friday at a news conference held at the suburban Buffalo headquarters of his company, Pelagic Research Services. Just moments after Odysseus arrived on the seafloor, its high-definition cameras sent back images of debris that were undoubtedly w...

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Natural dіѕаѕteгѕ can be both ѕсагу and deⱱаѕtаtіпɡ. One of the most interesting things that happen after an earthquake is the surfacing of millions of fish on the water surface . This phenomenon may seem weігd, but it has a scientific explanation. In this article, we will exрɩoгe why millions of fish suddenly surfaced and covered the water surface after the 7.5 SR earthquake . On September 28, 2018, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 һіt Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing massive deѕtгᴜсtіoп and a deаtһ toɩɩ of over 4,300 people. However, there was an even more peculiar іпсіdeпt that һаррeпed after the earthquake: the surfacing of millions of fish on the water surface. The fish were mostly small, and they covered the entire water surface. The surfacing of fish after an earthquake is not a new phenomenon, but it is not very common either. It is believed that the earthquake causes the гeɩeаѕe of gases like methane from the ocean floor. These gases are toxіс and can с...