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Beyond Fukushima: A World In Denial About Nuclear Risks, By Danny Schechter

By carolyn, on March 21st, 2011%

Reposted from: COMMON DREAMS (http://www NULL.commondreams NULL.org/view/2011/03/21-0)

What will it take for our world to recognize the dangers that nuclear scientists and even Albert Einstein were warning about at the “dawn” of the nuclear age?Nuclear power and nuclear weapons have been sold to the public relentlessly, in the first instance as necessary, and the . . . → Read More: Beyond Fukushima: A World In Denial About Nuclear Risks, By Danny Schechter

Explosion Rocks Third Japanese Reactor

By carolyn, on March 14th, 2011%

MSNBC (http://www NULL.msnbc NULL.msn NULL.com/id/42066534/ns/world_news-asiapacific/#)

SOMA, Japan — A third explosion in four days rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan early Tuesday, the country’s nuclear safety agency said.

The blast at Dai-ichi Unit 2 followed two hydrogen explosions at the plant — the latest on Monday — as authorities struggled to . . . → Read More: Explosion Rocks Third Japanese Reactor

ABC News: New Explosion At Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

By carolyn, on March 13th, 2011%

A hydrogen explosion reportedly ripped through another reactor at the Japanese nuclear plant where a reactor exploded Saturday, deepening a crisis government officials are calling the worst the nation has faced since World War II. . . . → Read More: ABC News: New Explosion At Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Japan Quake Moved Coast 8 Feet, Shifted Earth’s Axis

By carolyn, on March 12th, 2011%

The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. “At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass,” said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). . . . → Read More: Japan Quake Moved Coast 8 Feet, Shifted Earth’s Axis

Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return–Water, By Richard Heinberg

By carolyn, on March 5th, 2011%

Limits to freshwater could restrict economic growth by impacting society in four primary ways: (1) by increasing mortality and general misery as increasing numbers of people find difficulty filling basic and essential human needs related to drinking, bathing, and cooking; (2) by reducing agricultural output from currently irrigated farmland; (3) by compromising mining and manufacturing processes that require water as an input; and (4) by reducing energy production that requires water. As water becomes scarce, attempts to avert any one of these four impacts will likely make matters worse with regard to at least one of the other three. . . . → Read More: Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return–Water, By Richard Heinberg

What The Frack? US Natural Gas Drilling Contaminates Water

By carolyn, on February 28th, 2011%

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses pressure blasts to release natural gas but leaves highly toxic waste water . . . → Read More: What The Frack? US Natural Gas Drilling Contaminates Water

Catastrophic Weather Events Are Becoming The New Normal, By Bill McKibben

By carolyn, on February 3rd, 2011%

For two decades now we’ve been ignoring the impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we’re paying a heavy price. . . . → Read More: Catastrophic Weather Events Are Becoming The New Normal, By Bill McKibben

Nation Magazine: Peak Oil and A Changing Climate

By carolyn, on January 5th, 2011%

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.thenation NULL.com/article/157434/peak-oil-and-changing-climate)

Karen Rybold Chin | January 5, 2011

The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when . . . → Read More: Nation Magazine: Peak Oil and A Changing Climate

Winter Solstice, Lunar Eclipse, and Full Moon Overlap, December 20-21

By carolyn, on December 20th, 2010%

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.huffingtonpost NULL.com/2010/12/20/lunar-eclipse-tonight-201_n_798912 NULL.html?view=print)

Multiple astronomical events are lining up for a rare display of synchronization tonight as a total lunar eclipse (http://eclipse NULL.gsfc NULL.nasa NULL.gov/eclipse NULL.html) overlaps with 2010′s winter solstice.

Depending on the location, late night December 20 or early morning December 21, the full moon will be darkened by . . . → Read More: Winter Solstice, Lunar Eclipse, and Full Moon Overlap, December 20-21

Unavoidable Climate Change: We’ve Passed The Point of No Return, By Peter Gleick

By carolyn, on November 24th, 2010%

Reprinted from Alternet (http://http://www NULL.alternet NULL.org/story/148928/)

It’s too late. The world has missed the opportunity to avoid serious, damaging human-induced climate change. For a variety of reasons ranging from ignorance to political ideology to commercial self-interest to inertia to intentional misrepresentations and misdirections on the part of a small number of committed climate deniers, . . . → Read More: Unavoidable Climate Change: We’ve Passed The Point of No Return, By Peter Gleick

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