By Naoko Fujimura, with assistance from Jae Hur in Tokyo; Editors: Jim McDonald, Paul Tighe13 August 2011 Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) – Mushrooms are the latest addition to threats facing Japan’s food chain from radiation spewed by Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. Nameko mushrooms grown in the open air in Soma, a city […]
By Jim Efstathiou Jr. 11 August 2011 Natural-gas companies risk causing serious environmental damage from hydraulic fracturing unless they commit to the best engineering practices, a task force named by Energy Secretary Steven Chu concluded. Regulations to protect public health will work best when drillers embrace techniques that avoid “undesirable consequences,” according to a draft […]
Uploaded by mrpolity12 Jun 2011 The Koch Brother are super-rich global warming sceptics. Which would all be fine, except for the names and fronts they seem to hide behind. The Koch’s are a case study in faking it on a massive scale. The Koch’s are pro-free market, except when they benefit. Every year they […]
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER8 August 2011 FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate. Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds […]
TOKYO, August 9 (Kyodo) – Fish caught at a port about 55 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contained radioactive cesium at levels exceeding an allowable limit, the environmental group Greenpeace said Tuesday. The samples taken at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in late July, included a species of rockfish that measured […]
August 9 (AP) – An Associated Press investigation has found that Japanese government officials ignored radiation forecasts from their own monitoring system, failing to keep residents near a crippled nuclear plant from a predicted plume. Japan Ignored Own Fukushima Radiation Forecasts Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure,corruption
By Sean Bonner 7 August 2011 The Safecasting drives officially started after my last trip to Japan, so I’ve been watching from afar as Pieter and an ever growing volunteer team of total heros have set out time and time again to try and map the radiation levels in the areas surrounding the Fukushima plant, […]
Soil contamination levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 26 May 2011. Department of Energy / Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology / The New York Times Doubting Assurances, Japanese Find Radioactivity on Their Own Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure,agriculture
By Noriyoshi Otsuki and Satoru Murata5 August 2011 FUKUSHIMA–Deep in the mountains, a 4-ton dump truck unloads burlap bags that land with a thud in a hole shaped like a swimming pool 25 meters long and more than 2 meters deep. Another dump truck soon arrives, also filled with burlap bags. The two male workers […]
CHAUVIN, Louisiana, August 5, 2011 (ENS) – This year’s dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly equal to the land area of the state of New Jersey, scientists said this week. At 6,765 square miles, this area of low oxygen is the 10th largest on record and is considered about average for the […]
