By Mark FischettiApril 4, 2011 SEA IN RETREAT: The surface of the Dead Sea, already 424 meters below sea level, is falling by a meter a year. Jordanians to the east, Israelis to the west, and Syrians and Lebanese to the north are pumping so much freshwater from the Jordan River that almost none reaches […]
TOKYO, April 4 (Kyodo) — Tokyo Electric Power Co. began disposing of a total of 10,000 tons of water containing low-level radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean on Monday from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to make room to store more highly polluted water filling the No. 2 reactor turbine building, as the […]
By NORIMITSU ONISHI31 March 2011 TARO, Japan — So unshakable was this town’s faith in its sea wall and its ability to save residents from any tsunami that some rushed toward it after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeast Japan on the afternoon of March 11. After all, the sea wall was […]
By Ismat Sabir1 April 2011 Pakistan has drawn up a National Water Strategy to meet the millennium development goals (MDG) target before 2025 and has launched a scheme to provide clean drinking water for its people by the end of 2007. But the scheme, which was launched in September 2005, shows no positive results, due […]
Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near the crippled reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Radioactive water leaking into ocean in Japan TOKYO, April 2 (Kyodo) – Water with high levels of radiation has been confirmed to have seeped into the sea from the No. 2 reactor […]
This video was taken 24 March 2011 and shows Fukushima nuclear plant reactor No. 4. The camera is mounted on the tip of the crane used for discharging concrete pump into the building. Inside reactor 4 Fukushima Technorati Tags: Fukushima,pollution,infrastructure failure,Asia
By NEAL KARLINSKY, WENDY BRUNDIGE and LEEZEL TANGLAO1 April 2011 Some Japanese plant workers, including former employees who are now miles away from the damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, say they are concerned about the health of their colleagues and the availability of equipment to keep them safe from the leaked radiation. […]
In this March 24, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, damaged Unit 3 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan Photos shown are half-size of the originals. The 10 originals full-size: […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and WILLIAM J. BROADPublished: March 28, 2011 The announcement by Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy that high levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in seawater near the crippled nuclear reactors raises the prospect that radiation could enter the food chain. Cesium 137 levels were 20 times the normal level […]
By Shahid ShahSaturday, March 26, 2011 KARACHI: Pakistan’s fish stocks are depleting at a rate of 15 percent a year, a top exporter said. M Faisal Iftikhar, chairman Pakistan Fisheries Exporters Association (PAKFEA), said that fish stocks were depleting quickly. A fisherman with more than 40 years in the business said no survey of fish […]
