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4:02 p.m. EDT, Apr. 3, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan warned Sunday it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, wh ...
Mar. 27, 2011 -- 11:21 p.m. JST (10:21 EST) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan's earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant Sunday after potentially lethal levels of ...
Japanese prime minister Naota Kan at a news conference Friday. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Mar 25, 2011 (Irish Times) -- The situation at Japan's crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima 240km nort ...
Mar. 24, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- As radiation counts elevate in Japan, news of nuclear contamination spreading across a widening spectrum of life and its necessities, official pronouncements conti ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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