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What Happens to Nuclear Power Plants Following an EMP?
What Happens to Nuclear Power Plants Following an EMP? ReadyNutrition guys and gals, we have covered some bases on the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) and how to prepare the home and supplies against it. One of the major problems with the EMP is not just what will not work regarding unshielded equipment, but what will happen […]
Naomi Klein: ‘We Face a Series of Radical Options’
Naomi Klein: ‘We Face a Series of Radical Options’ An exclusive Tyee preview of Klein’s sold-out climate talk in Vancouver. Naomi Klein: ‘Steady as she goes’ is not an option. For anyone with even a passing knowledge of climate change, Naomi Klein needs no introduction. Her 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything was described as “the most momentous […]
‘Shocking how many people died in Fukushima’ – documentary director to RT
‘Shocking how many people died in Fukushima’ – documentary director to RT © Carlos Barria / Reuters Five years ago a killer tsunami knocked out the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, spewing radiation and forcing 160,000 people to flee their homes. Authorities in Japan want locals to think “nothing happened,” documentary director Jeffrey Jousan told RT. […]
BREAKING: $4.2 Million Jury Verdict Against Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, PA Water Contamination Lawsuit
BREAKING: $4.2 Million Jury Verdict Against Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, PA Water Contamination Lawsuit A Pennsylvania jury handed down a $4.2 million verdict in a lawsuit centering on water contamination from negligent shale gas drilling in Dimock, PA, a tiny town that made international headlines for its flammable and toxic drinking water. The defendant […]
Leaking Beachfront Nuclear Reactor Near Miami Threatening Florida Everglades
Leaking Beachfront Nuclear Reactor Near Miami Threatening Florida Everglades (ANTIMEDIA) Biscayne Bay, FL —According to a study released by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Monday, the waters of Biscayne Bay measured 215 times the level of radioactive tritium as is found in normal ocean water. Tritium is a radioactive isotope traceable to nuclear plant cooling […]
Antarctic techno-fix cannot slow rising seas
Antarctic techno-fix cannot slow rising seas Pumping seawater into Antarctica is unlikely to halt sea-level rise. Image: Lyubomir Ivanov via Wikimedia Commons Pumping seawater onto the Antarctic landmass to form ice and stop sea levels rising stands little chance of success, scientists say. LONDON, 10 March, 2016 – Sea level rise is likely to be a problem […]
Forget the Praise: BC’s Carbon Tax Is a Failure
Forget the Praise: BC’s Carbon Tax Is a Failure Higher emissions, slow growth, regressive taxation. Sorry, what’s to celebrate? ‘We think in British Columbia a carbon tax is a really successful way to go,’ BC’s premier said last year. The only problem is it doesn’t work. Photo of Premier Clark at GLOBE 2016 by Mychaylo […]
Pentagon’s War on the Earth
Pentagon’s War on the Earth We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces—and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices—also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil […]
Indian Point: Fukushima’s Mini-Me
Indian Point: Fukushima’s Mini-Me Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant New York continually leaks radioactivity into the Hudson River. This has been going on for years. Seriously! Meanwhile, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo agrees with advocacy groups such as Riverkeeper, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and The Sierra Club to close Indian Point. Why? Environmentalists claim the […]
Going beyond the “ecological turn” in the humanities
Going beyond the “ecological turn” in the humanities Talk about the Anthropocene often has a tendency to rely on apolitical and colonialist assumptions. But the turn to ecology in the humanities will require acknowledging—and, more importantly, supporting—those peoples who have never turned their back on ‘ecology’ in the first place. Photo by Aaron Vasintjan. There’s […]
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies Two recent studies further call into question the oil and gas industry’s claims of the climate benefits and community benefits of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). One of those studies, published in Environmental Research Letters and titled, “Just fracking: a distributive environmental justice analysis of […]
Warming means unfair share for poor
Warming means unfair share for poor A bumper catch off the coast of northern Norway may be bad news for fishermen in southern waters. Image: Bo Eide via Flickr As temperatures rise with climate change, the Earth’s natural capital will change too − but there may be few winners, even among the wealthy. LONDON, 5 March, 2016 – Climate […]
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout The environmental impacts of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are already becoming apparent, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace Japan, and for humans and other living things in the region, there is “no end in sight” to the ecological fallout. The report warns that […]
John Perkins: The Shadow World Of The Economic Hitman
John Perkins: The Shadow World Of The Economic Hitman An exposé of the ugly global battle for control of resources If you’re hoping to have a ‘feel good’ day today, we’re about to owe you an apology. John Perkins, author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is someone we’ve been trying to get […]
