Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)

Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing coun ...

Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan plant (Chizu Nomiyama and Shinichi Saoshiro)

Leslie's CHP Atomic Fish (Tablecloth) 8:00 p.m. JST (7 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan's nuclear safety ag ...

Japan’s ‘BP Moment’ Troubles Global Economy (William Pesek)

Mar. 20, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- You never want to kick a nation when it’s down. It’s time, though, to consider the depth of Japan’s coming recession. A week ago, before radiation fears prompted a mass e ...

Get ready for the meltdown of the US Treasury Bond market | LEAP/E2020

Mar. 17, 2011 -- Public announcement GEAB N°53 (LEAP/E2020) -- Beyond its tragic human consequences (1), the terrible disaster that has just hit Japan weakens the shaky U.S. Treasury Bond market a li ...

Radiation Levels Surge At Reactor (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)

Mar. 16, 2011 -- 7:39 p.m. JST (6:39 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power pl ...

Japan Crisis Worsens As Radiation Levels Surge (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)

Workers briefly abandon Japan nuclear plant as crisis worsens Mar. 16, 2011 -- 3:29 p.m. JST (2:29 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nu ...

Bear's Storm (Owsley Stanley)

(Editor's Note: Owsley Stanley died Sunday in a car accident in his home country of Australia. Stanley helped out as an advisor to the World News Trust project in 2003. WNT is republishing this essay ...

Japan's multiple crises deepen (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)

Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe Mar. 16, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan raced to avert a catastrophe Wednesday after an explosion at a quake-crippled nuclear power plant sent radia ...

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)

Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - ...

Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)

Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that c ...

US Designates 'Critical' Polar Bear Habitat in Arctic (Agence France Presse)

Nov. 24, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. government Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could impact n ...