Environment
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Japan's multiple crises deepen (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)
Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe Mar. 16, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan raced to avert a catastrophe Wednesday after an explosion at a quake-crippled nuclear power plant sent ...
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Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 15, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan faced potential catastrophe Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, ...
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BOJ Fails to Contain Investor Panic as Nuclear Danger Rises (Keiko Ujikane and Mayumi Otsuma)
Mar. 15, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s step to provide short-term liquidity and expand an asset-purchase program failed to contain investor panic today as the risk of nuclear radiation ...
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Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)
Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) ...
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Let me remind you of something crucial when it comes to nuclear power incidents and accidents: They lie (MadHound)
Mar. 13, 2011 (Democratic Underground) -- People lie. When it comes to nuclear incidents and accidents, plant owners, government officials, and the media lie. If they can't cover up an incident, ...
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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that ...
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Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nuclear reactor (Chris Meyers and Kim Kyung-hoon)
Mar. 12, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a ...
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Next Mass Extinction an Eyeblink Away (The Age)
Mar. 3, 2011 (The Age) -- Life on Earth is hurtling towards extinction levels comparable to those following the dinosaur-erasing asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, propelled forward by human ...
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BOOKS: Beyond Affluenza And Into The 'New Normal': Carolyn Baker Interviews David Wann (Carolyn Baker)
Feb. 23, 1011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- In our efforts to include voices that offer options for our current human predicament, we often overlook those in our own local communities. I’m fortunate to live ...
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Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility (Dr. Don Huber)
(farmandranchfreedom.org) -- One of the nation’s senior scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous ...
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Paradox: Linchpin Of The Long Emergency (Carolyn Baker)
Feb. 13, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- When people ask me, “Will the Long Emergency happen quickly or slowly?” I answer, “Yes.” When they ask, “Will it be like rolling down a bumpy hill or falling off ...
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