By Guy Busby, Press-Register 1 September 2011 ORANGE BEACH, Alabama – Researchers want to include as many as one-third of the 150,000 cleanup workers in a national long-term study of the health effects of the exposure to the effects of the 2010 oil spill. On Wednesday, representatives from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute […]
By Sarah Yang, Media Relations30 August 2011 BERKELEY – Exposure during pregnancy to flame retardant chemicals commonly found in the home is linked to lower birthweight babies, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health. In the study, to appear Tuesday, Aug. 30, in the […]
August 30 (Asahi Shimbun) – Extreme levels of radiation have been detected in soil within 40 kilometers of the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the science ministry said. The finding emerged in a map published Aug. 29 that for the first time shows contamination levels of areas within a 100-km radius of the […]
By Natalia Konstantinovskaya; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim and Chris Gallagher29 August 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – The environmental group took samples at and near three schools in Fukushima city, well outside the 20 km exclusion zone from Tokyo Electric Power’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan’s northeast. “No parent should have to choose between radiation […]
By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature 30 August 2011 Killer whales, the ocean’s fiercest predators, are easily recognisable by their black and white markings. But their future seems less clearly defined. Marine experts are concerned about an invisible threat to the animals that has been building in our seas since World War II. That was […]
By David McNeill 29 August 2011 Soma City (The Independent) – Yoshio Ichida is recalling the worst day of his 53 years: 11 March, when the sea swallowed up his home and killed his friends. The Fukushima fisherman was in the bath when the huge quake hit and barely made it to the open sea […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 25 August 2011 MOBILE, Alabama – Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer. The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera26 August 2011 The rest was either blown off to the ocean or landed somewhere else in Japan. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) had their paper published in the electronic version of Geophysical Research Letters published by the American Geophysical Union on August 11, and they announced the result of […]
By Yoko Kubota, with additional reporting by Yuko Takeo; Editing by Ed Lane25 August 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – Nearly six months after the world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan faces the task of cleaning up a sprawling area of radioactivity that could cost tens of billions of dollars, […]
August 24 (Xinhua) – Biological samples taken from waters in the Western Pacific region east of Fukushima, Japan show excessive radiation levels, said a statement from China’s State Oceanic Administration on Wednesday. The administration suggested that government agencies intensify radiation testing of marine products from the targeted waters to protect public health in China. According […]
