Thai Land Flooded!!

The capital of Thai Land can breathh a little easier today as the flood barries are holding firm!! the deathes are 307 and counting. every time it rain they need to put more sand bags and planks of wood up! It treeally sounds crazy over there lets hope they come through with little damage.

Radioactive Rice

    Saturday government officials in Tokyo Japan ordered more test after detecting levels of radiation in the rice crops near a nuclear power plant at Fukushima, these radioactive things have already been found in beef, milk, spinach and tea leaves, leading to recalls on many of them.   The are really worried about the rice because Japan grows the most rice there is.  The tests showed that the crops contained 500 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, prefectural officials said, Japans regulations, rice with up to 500 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium is considered safe to eat, the government has been testing fish and other food and rice products ever sense the disaster. Some nations have stopped buying rice form Japan the customers are scared of the radiation hurting them or their family, they are trying to clean and get all the radiation out of the rice. 

The Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon: The after effects on fish

Even though there were low concentrations of oil minerals in the Gulf of Mexico water from the Deepwater Horizon spill, fish were partly affected by the toxins from the oil. Researchers took a combined field and laboratory study and it showed widespread effects of the oil spill on the fish in Louisiana marshes. Gene expression in tissues of some of the fish (killifish) was predicted oil spill effects such as developmental abnomalities and death, say the scientists. Also indicated impairment of fish reproduction. Fish gill tissues (used for breathing) were damaged and had altered the protein expression.