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Post Views: 5 Checks on 54 reactors intended to reassure public the facilities are safe after Fukushima accident sparked by tsunamiThe accident at Fukushima Daiichi is the worst since Chernobyl 25 years ago [Reuters] Japan has said it will run “stress tests” on
Read MoreOcéanos al borde de la catástrofe 0
Post Views: 4 La vida marina enfrenta extinción masiva “dentro de una generación” Michael McCarthyIndependent Co. UK Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens Los océanos del mundo se enfrentan a una pérdida de especies sin precedentes comparable con
Read MoreParar los vertidos y cerrar la central 0
Post Views: 5 Sobre la contaminación térmica que produce en el río Ebro la central nuclear de Garoña Editorial de Gara Greenpeace difundió ayer un informe sobre la contaminación térmica que la central nuclear de Garoña produce en las aguas
Read MoreEl encubrimiento en Fukushima 0
Post Views: 9 En los días que siguieron el desastre de la planta en Fukushima, el lobby pro-nuclear dio un giro positivo a las malas nuevas. Se dijo entonces que si la planta había resistido un terremoto de 9 grados,
Read MoreChina threatens trade war over EU emissions trading scheme 0
Post Views: 29 European Union ‘stands firm’ on plans to include foreign airlines in its ETS as International Airlines Group boss Willie Walsh calls for a ‘plan B’ The ETS will require airlines flying into, out of and within the
Read MoreNuclear Phaseout Is an ‘Historic Moment’ 0
Post Views: 23 The World from Berlin A radiation protection worker walks over a bearing basin containing nuclear fuel elements at Germany’s Biblis nuclear reactor. Angela Merkel’s government has decided to phase out nuclear power by 2022, in a reversal
Read MoreFukushima and the Radioactive Sea 0
Post Views: 6 Chernobyl Times Ten 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
Read MoreNuclear Insanity 0
Post Views: 3 Fukushima has raised, once again, the perennial questions about human fallibility and human frailty, about human hubris and man’s arrogance in thinking he can control nature. The earthquakes, the tsunami, the meltdown at Japan’s nuclear power plant
Read MoreUn paso atrás con el medio ambiente 0
Post Views: 4 DIPUTADOS EN BRASIL APRUEBAN UN POLEMICO PROYECTO Brasil retrocedió en su política medioambiental, levantando restricciones a la deforestación de la selva amazónica. La Cámara de Diputados dio media sanción al Código Forestal, y será vetado parcialmente por
Read MoreCould the Arab revolt hit ‘Pipelineistan’? 0
Post Views: 7 In Central Asia, battles for geopolitical control over oil resources play out against a backdrop of popular angerPepe Escobar The president of Kazakhstan, wants to make his country into an “Asian tiger”, but since tigers are not native
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