ScienceInsider on Fukushima ocean contamination

The blogpost is here.

The bottom line is relatively good news I think for Tokyo Bay and also for the Japanese fishing industry. Nevertheless, public panic is already reducing the price of seafood at Tokyo’s famed seafood wholesale market. Perhaps this will be good for the population of blue fin tuna.

Chernobyl as a biological experiment

Here‘s a fascinating account of what the exclusion zone around Chernobyl is like these days. There are two interesting interacting “dependent variables”: the removal of human beings and the radiation. Both are interacting.