Environment
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Confessions of a Nuclear Power Safety Expert (John Perlin)
June 14, 2011 (Miller-McCune) -- When Italy decided in the mid-’70s to add nuclear power to its power portfolio, young mechanical and nuclear engineer Cesare Silvi was among those attracted to the ...
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Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity (Denise Chow)
A photo of a sunspot taken in May 2010, with Earth shown to scale. The image has been colorized for aesthetic reasons. This image with 0.1 arcsecond resolution from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope ...
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Warning: extreme weather ahead (John Vidal)
Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' A tornado makes its way ...
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Explosion in jellyfish numbers may lead to ecological disaster (Tracy McVeigh)
A dramatic global increase in jellyfish swarms could damage the marine food chain June 12, 2011 (The Observer) -- Global warming has long been blamed for the huge rise in the world's jellyfish ...
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America's Nuclear Spent-Fuel Time Bombs (Robert Alvarez)
Japan's nuclear disaster should serve as a wake-up call for the United States June 6, 2011 (OtherWords) -- Now that many Americans have stopped paying attention to Japan's nuclear catastrophe, ...
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Rat-eating plant discovered in Philippines (Chris Irvine)
Rat-eating plant: The team of botanists, led by British experts Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, found the plant on Mount Victoria in the Philippines June 7, 2011 (Telegraph) -- A ...
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Deluded, Greedy and Obese: 'The brightest and best' in one generation ravage their children's birthright (Steve Salmony)
June 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Perhaps it is not only our fate as elders to confront certain obviously emerging and rapidly converging global challenges, it may also be that we elders ...
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Is Fukushima Now 10 Chernobyls into the Sea? (Harvey Wasserman)
May 26, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are 10 times higher than those measured in the ...
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New Leak Feared at Stricken Japan Nuclear Plant (Kiyoshi Takenaka and Yoko Nishikawa)
May 26, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Radioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, operator Tokyo Electric Power said Thursday, in a new ...
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Fukushima's Apocalyptic Threat Demands Immediate Global Action (Harvey Wasserman)
May 20, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Fukushima may be in an apocalyptic downward spiral. Forget the corporate-induced media coma that says otherwise… or nothing at all. Lethal radiation is spewing ...
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