Hurricane Season This Year Will Be More Active
Experts from the University of Colorado, USA, said the hurricane season for the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, have a higher than average activity, with an estimated 18 tropical storms.
Of all the systems, nine becoming hurricanes, four of which will become major category, with winds of at least 178 kilometers per hour, the researchers, who based their predictions on two factors, ocean warming and El Niño , which is expected to have little effect on this summer and fall.
Even meteorologists National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have not delivered their judgment.
The cyclonic period in the area begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30.
The list of names to be used this year are, Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Ingrid, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Melissa, Nestor, Olga, Pablo, Rebekah, Sebastien, Tanya, Van and Wendy.
Last season 19 tropical storms formed and 10 hurricanes, including Hurricane Sandy, which caused extensive damage in the Caribbean and huge losses in the eastern United States.
Another Radioactive Leak in Japan’s Fukushima Reactor
A new water leak with high levels of radiation was detected in the damaged Japanese nuclear plant of Fukushima Daiichi, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) affirmed today.
The leak occurred as pumping operations are taking place to empty the storage subterranean tanks after last week’s important losses.
This new problem took place just one day after a plan to empty the seven subterranean tanks that storage radioactive water was announced after the leaks detected in three of them, noted channelnewsasia.com. Fukushima nuclear plant was affected on March 11, 2011 by a 9-magnitude on Richter scale quake that hit the northeastern region of Japan and was ensued by a tsunami that collapsed reactors and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate area.
Massive March for Education Reform in Chile
Over 150 thousand Chilean students of different education levels and their relatives, employees and agents for education began a march on the capital’s Italia Square demanding a deep and urgent reform in the sector.
Protesters demand, among other things, an end to profit in education, a constitutional reform to ensure education as a right and return to the state of the schools and colleges delivered to municipalities in 1986 during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Via PL