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Why The Hell Is This Pig's Flesh Bright Blue?!

September 11, 2015 | by Danielle Andrew
Photo credit: A bad case of the blues? Uploaded to Imgur by GlendilTEK.
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When a couple out on their ranch in Morgan Hill, California, saw a wild pig roaming the brush, they decided to shoot it and take it home for meat. After transporting the pig back home and draining its blood, the pair cut open the pig ready to skin and portion it, only to find this wild hog was hiding something quite unusual below the surface.

^{The images were uploaded to Imgur 3 days ago by GlendilTEK.}
The pair were shocked to find that its fat was bright blue.

^{The meat is normal color but the fat is stained bright blue all the way through the pig.}
According to the original post, all the fat within the body was consistently stained blue. Its meat and blood however, were of normal color.

The couple have shot and eaten other wild pigs on their ranch and claim to never have found a specimen like this one.
Questions were raised whether an old copper mine in the vicinity may have caused the blue coloring, but according to the post there are only old, filled-in mercury mines in the nearby area.
Samples of the pig have been sent over to University of California, Davis to uncover the source of the unusual coloring.

We know that in documents regarding eating animals after nuclear incidents, one must be careful in removal of meat next to bones as they retain the radioactivity. Recommended is leaving 1/4" next to.
So is fat storing it too? Hence a color change, or is this some genetic caused by the high amounts now being received in Northern Hemisphere?

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TV: Massacre along West Coast continues — Alarming, bleak situation as disease re-emerges — Hundreds of millions of sea stars estimated dead — Changes in cellular matrix observed, “a lot of interesting genes being found” — Other sea life disappearing as tidepool communities ‘shift’ (VIDEO)

Published: September 15th, 2015 at 11:38 pm ET By ENENews  Email Article 323 comments Tweet

National Geographic, Sep 15, 2015 (emphasis added): Why Are So Many Starfish Dying? — Sea stars along North America’s west coast have been dying at an alarming rate. A syndrome known as sea star wasting disease causes the animal to lose limbs and eventually disintegrate, leaving behind a pile of white goo…
National Geographic, Sep 15, 2015: The massacre of sea stars along the West Coast continues, although the pace has slowed because so many already have died… Some areas have seen up to a 90 percent decline in their populations… Scientists [are] investigating why this disease… is now rampaging through 19 species of sea stars… In some of the locations hit early on with this wasting disease, [Pete Raimondi, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz] and colleagues are already starting to see a shift in the animal community. In tidepools, where there used to be a mix of organisms including sea stars, scientists are now seeing mussels dominating… in the Pacific Northwest, sea stars have either gotten smaller in body size, or they are big, with few in the mid-size range, says Drew Harvell, a marine ecologist at Cornell University.
National Geographic transcript, Sep 15, 2015:  Ben Miner, marine biologist at Western Washington Univ.: “From Mexico all the way to Alaska, there’s been a massive die-off of sea stars. Estimates are in the tens to hundreds of millions of sea stars have died in the last couple of years. It’s one of the largest mortality events associated with a disease that we’ve ever observed in the ocean… Several years ago stars covered the bottom of the seas… we found less than 20 today. It’s just depressing.”
UC Santa Cruz, Aug 18, 2015: From Washington down through central California… most of these sites show significant decreases in population size… indicating a high impact overall… Monitoring sites just north of Point Conception, at the southern end of central CA, tend to show higher prevalence of symptoms… The four Orange County monitoring sites in southern California turned up a total of four ochre stars, with two of the sites having zero ochre stars remaining in the monitoring plots… past total abundance for these sites would have averaged over 150 sea stars… In the Salish Sea/Puget Sound region of Washington… recent observations from citizen scientists indicate that the disease is re-emerging in some areas. A few sites with high numbers of juvenile ochre stars and mottled stars in winter 2014/spring 2015 have shown significant declines…
University of Texas at Arlington, Jul 28, 2015: Lauren Fuess, a Ph.D. candidate in quantitative biology, and her team looked at the wasting disease responsible for the largest die-off of sea stars ever recorded… Wasting disease affects nearly 20 different species and it has caused up to almost 90 percent mortality in some areas off the West Coast over the last two years. “The sea stars protect the rocky shores, keeping them from becoming dominated by mussels,” Fuess said. “When you remove the sea stars, you see dramatic declines of other species, so basically you go from a diverse ecosystem to a mussel-coated beach.”…. “We’re looking at an increasing rate of diseases that may be linked to climate change as well as pollution in the ocean,” Mydlarz said. “What we’re working on… is looking to see if some of this temperature stress due to climate change or pollution are causing the animals, such as the sea stars and the corals, to be more susceptible to diseases… Fuess [said] “We found a lot of interesting genes – including the first melanin gene ever recorded in a sea star.”…  The team also found several changes in the extra cellular matrix and collagen gene. “Genes that degrade collagen… increased in the stars we studied,” Fuess said. “So, you have more degradation of that essential collagen and breakdown of the matrix… We also saw changes in nervous genes that might be contributing to that twisting of the arms.”
Daily Astorian, Aug 27, 2015: Melissa Miner, a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with MARINe, the Multi-Agency Rock Intertidal Network that surveys sea stars along the entire West Coast, said populations are still low… In June, researchers began seeing many sick sea stars in Washington’s intertidal waters again. Fishermen are still finding signs of the disease when they pull sea stars up, Miner said… The epidemic is one of the largest marine disease events worldwide, Miner added… Warmer waters have affected other species, such as seabirds, impacting the entire ecosystem, Keyser said.
Associated Press, Aug 30, 2015: … Sea star populations have plummeted along the West Coast since wasting syndrome was first noticed on a Washington beach more than two years ago. Scientists still aren’t sure what’s causing the die-offs… The situation along the outer coast remains bleak… populations remain far below what they were before wasting syndrome… “Now, we’re starting to see it crop up again in the same places as last year,” she said.
Watch the National Geographic segment here

Published: September 15th, 2015 at 11:38 pm ET By ENENews

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/12/your-radiation-this-week-no-21/


Sept 5 to Sept 12, 2015

(San Francisco) September 12, 2015 – Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week.” These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States and in your neighborhood. Let’s get right to it.




Storm in the Plains

*Listed in Counts per Minute, a Count is One Radioactive Decay Registered by the Instrument.

All Radiation Counts reported are partial Counts. Uncounted types of radiation include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Neutron and X-Ray radiation.  Uncounted radiation, if added, makes the actual Count higher and more dangerous.

The highest radiation reporting city is listed first, the least radioactive city is listed last. Still, all reporting cities are above normal.

Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. [6]

 

2,323	CPM,	464.6	Times Normal,	Billings, MT	Gamma, Beta.
1,913	CPM,	382.6	Times Normal,	Ft Wayne IN	Gamma, Beta.
1,508	CPM,	301.6	Times Normal,	Pittsburgh, PA,	Gamma, Beta.
1,435	CPM,	287	Times Normal,	San Diego, CA	Gamma, Beta.
1,431	CPM,	286.2	Times Normal,	Portland, ME	Gamma, Beta.
1,365	CPM,	273	Times Normal,	Spokane, WA.	Gamma, Beta.
1,359	CPM,	271.8	Times Normal,	Champaign, IL	Gamma, Beta.
1,359	CPM,	271.8	Times Normal,	Miami, FL.	Gamma, Beta.
1,300	CPM,	260	Times Normal,	Kansas City, KA,	Gamma, Beta.
1,199	CPM,	239.8	Times Normal,	Aberdeen, SD.	Gamma, Beta.
1,143	CPM,	228.6	Times Normal,	Concord, NH	Gamma, Beta.
1,038	CPM,	207.6	Times Normal,	Rapid City, SD.	Gamma, Beta.
1,028	CPM,	205.6	Times Normal,	Atlanta, GA.	Gamma, Beta.
997	CPM,	199.4	Times Normal,	Boston, MS	Gamma, Beta.
944	CPM,	188.8	Times Normal,	Albuquerque, NM	Last Report
905	CPM,	181	Times Normal,	Los Angeles, CA	Gamma, Beta.
902	CPM,	180.4	Times Normal,	Ft. Worth, TX	Gamma, Beta.
886	CPM,	177.2	Times Normal,	New York City, NY	Gamma, Beta.
883	CPM,	176.6	Times Normal,	Tulsa, OK	Gamma, Beta.
879	CPM,	175.8	Times Normal,	Indianapolis, IN.	Gamma, Beta.
870	CPM,	175.8	Times Normal,	Bakersfield, CA	Gamma, Beta.
869	CPM,	173.8	Times Normal,	Lubbock, TX	Gamma, Beta.
815	CPM,	163	Times Normal,	Chicago, IL	Gamma, Beta.
798	CPM,	159.6	Times Normal,	Montgomery, AL.	Gamma, Beta.
792	CPM,	158.4	Times Normal,	Little Rock, AR	Gamma, Beta.
765	CPM,	153	Times Normal,	Des Moines, IA.	Gamma, Beta.
652	CPM,	130.4	Times Normal,	Tucson, AZ	Gamma, Beta.
651	CPM,	130.2	Times Normal,	Sacramento, CA	Gamma, Beta.
641	CPM,	128.2	Times Normal,	San Angelo, TX.	Gamma, Beta.
640	CPM,	128	Times Normal,	St. Paul, MN.	Gamma, Beta.
634	CPM,	126.8	Times Normal,	Lincoln, NE	Gamma, Beta.
619	CPM,	123.8	Times Normal,	San Francisco, CA.	Gamma, Beta.
575	CPM,	115	Times Normal,	Dallas, TX.	Gamma, Beta.
543	CPM,	108.6	Times Normal,	Washington, D.C.	Gamma, Beta.
480	CPM,	96	Times Normal,	Las Vegas, NV.	Gamma, Beta.
476	CPM,	95.2	Times Normal,	Phoenix, AZ	Gamma, Beta.
428	CPM,	85.6	Times Normal,	South Valley, NM	Gamma Only.
364	CPM,	72.8	Times Normal,	Grand Junction, CO	Gamma Only

 

Highest Recorded Radioactive City in America this week

A new and familiar Leader this week in the race for the Most Radioactive Weather in America is Billings, Montana with 2,323 CPM. Congratulations to Billings, MT as the Most Radioactive City in America this week. Other competing cities for the title were not even close. Thirteen (13) cities exceeded 1,000 CPM this week in Your Rad Weather. Stay Alert and take all appropriate precautions.

Changes – Six New Cities Added

 

These cities are added to the Rad List in Your Radiation This Week. The cities are: Portland, Maine; Washington, D.C.; Montgomery, Alabama; Ft. Worth, Texas, Champaign, IL; and Atlanta, Georgia. The report period covers last week also to include the unnamed and unacknowledged, apparent nuclear event at Champaign, IL. Something spread radiation all over the country.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/15/tuna-and-mackerel-populations-suffer-catastrophic-74-decline-research-shows

Tuna and mackerel populations suffer catastrophic 74% decline, research shows

WWF says we risk losing species critical to human food security unless action is taken to halt overfishing and other threats to marine life



Yellowtail and albacore tuna are becoming increasingly rare, as well as bluefin. Photograph: Brian Skerry/WWF
Fiona Harvey
Tuesday 15 September 2015 19.01 EDT Last modified on Thursday 17 September 2015 12.09 EDT

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Tuna and mackerel populations have suffered a “catastrophic” decline of nearly three quarters in the last 40 years, according to new research.
WWF and the Zoological Society of London found that numbers of the scombridae family of fish, which also includes bonito, fell by 74% between 1970 and 2012, outstripping a decline of 49% for 1,234 ocean species over the same period.
The conservation charity warned that we face losing species critical to human food security, unless drastic action is taken to halt overfishing and other threats to marine life.
Louise Heaps, chief advisor on marine policy at WWF UK, said: “This is catastrophic. We are destroying vital food sources, and the ecology of our oceans.”
Attention in recent years has focused on species such as bluefin tuna, now on the verge of extinction in the Pacific, but other close relatives commonly found on restaurant menus or in tins, such as yellowtail tuna and albacore, are now also becoming increasingly scarce. Only skipjack, also often tinned, is showing “a surprising degree of resilience”, according to Heaps, one of the authors of the Living Blue Planet report, published on Wednesday.



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Sea cucumbers, a luxury food in Asia, have fallen 98%. Photograph: Cat Holloway/WWF
Other species suffering major declines include sea cucumbers, a luxury food in Asia, which have fallen 98% in number in the Galapagos and 94% in in the Egyptian Red Sea. Populations of endangered leatherback turtles, which can be seen in UK waters, have plummeted.
Overfishing is not the only culprit behind a halving of marine species since 1970. Pollution, including plastic detritus which can build up in the digestive systems of fish; the loss of key habitats such as coastal mangrove swamps; and climate change are also taking a heavy toll, with the oceans becoming more acidic as a result of the carbon dioxide we are pouring into the atmosphere.
“I am terrified about acidification,” Heaps told the Guardian. “That situation is looking very bleak. We were taught in the 1980s that the solution to pollution is dilution, but that suggests the oceans have an infinite capacity to absorb our pollution. That is not true, and we have reached the capacity now.”
She predicts that all of the world’s coral reefs could be effectively lost by 2050, if current trends are allowed to continue unchecked, and said that evidence of the effects of acidification – which damages tiny marine animals that rely on calcium to make their shells and other organs - could be found from the Antarctic to the US west coast.



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Tubbataha reef in the Philippines appears bleached due to an infestation of crown-of-thorn starfish. Photograph: Juergen Freund/WWF
Although overfishing is a global problem, the Pacific is of particular concern, as the Chinese, Japanese and Korean fleets are among the world’s biggest, greater in size and fishing capacity than Europe’s.
Chinese fishermen are also increasingly fishing in other waters, expanding their reach. Shark-finning, the practice of removing only the fins from sharks and throwing the bodies back, to make the Asian delicacy shark-fin soup, has taken a severe toll on stocks, with a quarter of shark species predicted to become extinct in a decade if nothing is done.
However, Heaps said there were solutions. “It’s not all doom-and-gloom. There are choices we can make. But it is urgent.”



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A silvertip shark swimming in Beqa lagoon, near Suva, the capital of Fiji. Photograph: Brent Stirton/WWF
Overfishing can be managed with better governance – Heaps points to the recovery in North Sea cod stocks as an example of how management can work. She also urged governments to adopt the sustainable development goals, proposed by the United Nations and including provisions for protecting marine life, at the UN general assembly later this month.


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Heaps urged people to eat fish certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), which examines fisheries against a range of criteria to ensure that they are being properly managed. An increasing number of fisheries have been accredited by the MSC, and at present about half of global white fish stocks are certified, including many in the North Sea.
She called for more partnerships between private sector fishing fleets and governments, in order to conserve stocks. “We need to keep [fishermen] on board, because they must see that good governance is in their interests,” she said.