Disasters
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We Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew |John Atcheson
Aug. 31, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- The data continue to roll in, and they are telling us we are in the process of bringing an end to the world we evolved in, and creating a new, harsher world. We will ...
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Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP
The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of ...
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Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna Off California | Common Dreams
May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster ...
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The Top Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima | WashingtonsBlog
Nuclear love. Ben Heine The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool Number 4 Apr. 7, 2012 (Washington's Blog) -- We noted days after the Japanese earthquake that the biggest threat was from ...
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And the Country Went to Hell (David Glenn Cox )
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2011 -- George Orwell wrote in his ground breaking novel 1984, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the ...
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PILLOW TALK: Moving Earth | Deborah Goodwin
Exacavator Sept. 26, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- There have been giant Tonka Trucks and prehistoric-looking excavators driving up and down Stony Brook Road for many days now, it's almost as noisy as ...
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Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)
Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild ...
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Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security (Stephen Leahy)
This data visualisation from the Aqua satellite show the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09. Credit:NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio Sept. 15, 2011 (Inter Press Service) -- All the ...
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Greetings From The (Former?) Stony Brook Islands -- Part I (Francis Goodwin)
Francis M. Goodwin -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2011 -- Greetings from the (former?) Stony Brook Islands of Stockbridge, Vermont. It's been a week since Hurricane Irene swept up the East Coast of ...
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ADVISORY: World News Trust Headquarters Closed Indefinitely By Severe Floods
Aug. 29, 2011 (World News Trust) -- The World News Trust headquarters in Stockbridge, Vt., has been closed indifinitely due to a power outages and severe flooding that has washed away numerous ...
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Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)
Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, ...
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