'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan (Dahr Jamail)

Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much." According to the US Department of Energy, no level of radiation is so low that it is without health risks Apr. 4, 2011 (Al Jazeera) ...

Japan nuclear operator aims for cold shutdown in 6-9 months (Taiga Uranaka)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to n ...

Emotional Resilience In Traumatic Times (Carolyn Baker)

Apr. 15, 2011 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- While mainstream media have been encouraging collective dithering over a possible U.S. government shutdown, the chilling realities of off-the-chart levels o ...

ADVISORY: WNT Is Having Technical Problems

ROCHESTER, Vt. (World News Trust) -- World News Trust has been having technical problems that have interfered with updates to the WNT site at worldnewstrust.com. We are working to fix the problems. W ...

Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks (Chizu Nomiyama and Yoko Nishikawa)

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 ...

Fukushima Fallout Reaches U.S.A. (Mike Whitney)

Trace levels of radiation found in rainwater from California to Massachusetts Mar. 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have p ...

Soaring radioactivity deals blow to Japan's plant (Shinichi Saoshiro)

Mar. 27, 2011 -- 11:21 p.m. JST (10:21 EST) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan's earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant Sunday after potentially lethal levels of ...

5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Mar. 27, 2011 -- It's repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: "Technology is neutral. It's only as good or as bad as those using it." Here a ...

Japan Nuclear situation 'grave and serious' (Irish Times)

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 ...

Fukushima Radiation: Some Difficult Truths (Ritt Goldstein)

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 ...

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 ...