Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev ...

US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules (Jeff Donn)

June 20, 2011 -- LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by rep ...

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 op ...

IMF Computer System Said to Be Targeted by Foreign Government Cyber-Attack (Michael Riley and Sandrine Rastello)

June 13, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The data theft from International Monetary Fund computers by hackers said to be linked to a foreign government follows incidents against companies and governments that il ...

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, shocki ...

Canadian scientists 'bottle' antimatter (Keith Bonnel)

June 6, 2011 (PostMedia News) -- Makoto Fujiwara has spent more than a decade in laboratories hunting an elusive prey, the stuff of science fiction -- the missing half of everything. He and other Can ...

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 a ...

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 Ba ...

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 s ...

There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (Spencer Ackerman)

May 25, 2011 (Wired) -- You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard. Congress is set to ...

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 unab ...