By Chisa Fujioka and Kevin Krolicki; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Nick Macfie27 May 2011 (Reuters) – Japan will pay schools near the quake-ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant to remove radioactive top soil and set a lower radiation exposure limit for schoolchildren after a growing outcry over health risks. The Education Ministry triggered protests in […]
By Wang Qian (China Daily)28 May 2011 BEIJING – The Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, might lose the battle against the worst drought to hit Central China in 50 years if no rains fall by mid-June. “If the drought continues and there is no rainfall before June 10, the dam will lose […]
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWire25 May 2011 NEW YORK — Global sea level rise has put a handful of nations at risk of extinction — small island states in the Pacific and Indian oceans. But this week, a collection of international lawyers and politicians have begun work to ensure that doesn’t happen. They can’t prevent […]
May 26 (NJ Press Media) – Sea level likely will be a foot higher along New Jersey by 2050, and at the end of the century “Atlantic City’s going to see three feet,” said geology professor Ken Miller of Rutgers University. To see what the beaches would do on their own in response to rising […]
By Mike Schneider26 May 2011 ORLANDO, Florida — A marine researcher says the BP oil spill may be playing an indirect role in the unusually high number of young dolphins dying in the Gulf of Mexico recently. University of Central Florida researcher Graham Worthy says in a report he is presenting today that the oil and […]
View Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team in a larger map By arevamirpal::laprimavera27 May 2011 Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi […]
OROUMIEH LAKE, Iran, May 25 (AP) – From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in his boat to enjoy a spring weekend on picturesque Oroumieh Lake, the third largest saltwater lake on earth. “Look, the boat is stuck. It cannot move anymore,” […]
By Stuart Biggs and Yuriy Humber27 May 2011 As a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency visits Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled nuclear plant today, academics warn the company has failed to disclose the scale of radiation leaks and faces a “massive problem” with contaminated water. The utility known as Tepco has been pumping […]
By Tamino25 May 2011 Shortly after it became clear that April 2011 broke the U.S. record for the most April tornados, the Washington Post reported that it was not a “legitimate” record … yet. That’s because earlier years’ counts are adjusted upward in an attempt to compensate for our increasing ability to detect tornados in […]
By Harvey Wasserman26 May 2011 New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. “When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic […]
