Yellow Rains, A Hint Of Nuclear Leakage?

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oi-Anjana NS

By Anjana Ns

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 9:41

Have you seen a Yellow rain? On a sunday evening at 6.15, Hebri, a place in Karnataka, India witnessed a yellow rainfall. The residents of Hebri were shocked to see the yellow droplets trickling from the skies. The Yellow drops had even settled on the trees and plants and according to the people in the vicinity, the drops had a bad odour. The rain occurred at 5 km stretch covering Ikkodlu, Bandimath and Jatkal villages near Hebri for 5 seconds.

Surprisingly, the Hebri area is a forest area and there are no large scale industries in and around the place. Although the residents feel it to be an Acid rain, the experts haven't yet come up with the definite conclusion. While some feel that the Yellow in water is due to the “nitric acid" content which is also responsible for the foul smell. There were some more opinion to the stinky rain saying it was due to the result of the rainwater combining with some gases in the environment.

A similar rain shower was reported in many newspapers and magazines in December 2010 in Koregaon, Satara district, Maharashtra. The Yellow showers had fallen within the 300 square meters area at Rikdarbadi village. Frequent Yellow rains are reported southeast Asia and is believed to be a cause due to waste matter discharge of wild honeybees contaminated by a fungal toxin. In less than a week, the yellow rain was also reported in Kanto region in Japan and the government said that it was because of pollen.

But people across Asia are worried as they feel it is because of the nuclear leakage that took place in Japan by the earthquake and tsunami disasters. With the world said to end in 2012, are we getting the world to end.

Effects of global warming is getting bigger day by day and days are not far when people witness multicolored toxic rains due to various type of contamination in the atmosphere.

If the stinky yellow rain was due to contamination of nitrates in fertilizers, then what are we doing to our nature? What are we doing to our Earth?