Environment
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Honeybees 'Entomb' Hives to Protect Against Pesticides, say Scientists (Fiona Harvey)
Read more...'Entombed' pollen is identified as having sunken, wax-covered cells amid 'normal', uncapped cells. Photograph: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology By sealing up cells full of contaminated pollen, bees ...
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Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks (Chizu Nomiyama and Yoko Nishikawa)
Read more...4:02 p.m. EDT, Apr. 3, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan warned Sunday it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, wh ...
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Fukushima Fallout Reaches U.S.A. (Mike Whitney)
Read more...Trace levels of radiation found in rainwater from California to Massachusetts Mar. 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have p ...
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The Capitalist Follies (David Glenn Cox)
Read more...David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 28, 2011 -- There are days in this world when the events overwhelm us. Forces of nature batter us and remind us of how frail our lives and our societies truly ...
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Soaring radioactivity deals blow to Japan's plant (Shinichi Saoshiro)
Read more...Mar. 27, 2011 -- 11:21 p.m. JST (10:21 EST) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan's earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant Sunday after potentially lethal levels of ...
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Japan Nuclear situation 'grave and serious' (Irish Times)
Read more...Japanese prime minister Naota Kan at a news conference Friday. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Mar 25, 2011 (Irish Times) -- The situation at Japan's crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima 240km nort ...
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Fukushima Radiation: Some Difficult Truths (Ritt Goldstein)
Read more...Mar. 24, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- As radiation counts elevate in Japan, news of nuclear contamination spreading across a widening spectrum of life and its necessities, official pronouncements conti ...
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Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)
Read more...Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing coun ...
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Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan plant (Chizu Nomiyama and Shinichi Saoshiro)
Read more...Leslie's CHP Atomic Fish (Tablecloth) 8:00 p.m. JST (7 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan's nuclear safety ag ...
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Japan’s ‘BP Moment’ Troubles Global Economy (William Pesek)
Read more...Mar. 20, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- You never want to kick a nation when it’s down. It’s time, though, to consider the depth of Japan’s coming recession. A week ago, before radiation fears prompted a mass e ...
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Get ready for the meltdown of the US Treasury Bond market | LEAP/E2020
Read more...Mar. 17, 2011 -- Public announcement GEAB N°53 (LEAP/E2020) -- Beyond its tragic human consequences (1), the terrible disaster that has just hit Japan weakens the shaky U.S. Treasury Bond market a li ...
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