Sputnik – 26.08.2019 Twelve days earlier a number of people on a UK beach in West Sussex suffered bouts of vomiting in the wake of a toxic plume sweeping the area, with a sunken warship investigated as a likely cause of the incident. Three UK beaches have been on alert over a mysterious “toxic sea” […]
By Larry Bell ~ PA Pundits – International ~ August 21, 2019 A petition being submitted by hundreds of independent climate scientists and professionals from numerous countries to heads of the European Council, Commission and Parliament declares “There is No Climate Emergency.” Briefly summarized, the request for consideration conveys five urgent messages: Climate change is […]
Welcome to France By Linda Pentz Gunter | Beyond Nuclear | August 11, 2019 The headline — Police probe opened into rumours of unsafe tap water in Paris — raised hopes that nuclear operators might finally be held accountable for what appears to be routine radioactive contamination of drinking water in France. News stories had […]
RT | July 30, 2019 “EU-banned pesticide[s are] being manufactured in the EU, and then coming back to citizens in the EU, in the food we eat,” environmental journalist and founding member of the Green Economic Institute think tank Oliver Tickell told RT, explaining that as one of the largest soy exporters in the world, […]
By Larry F. Brown, PhD | Watts Up With That? | July 21, 2019 We visited a wind farm in southern Utah recently. I’ve always been curious about the costs, profitability, and physical size of these things as well as the footprint and environmental impact. I had 3 meetings with the man in charge of […]
Sputnik – July 19, 2019 Nevada state authorities have voiced fears that radioactivity could be released into the environment by powerful tremors, regularly hitting the proposed site of a nuclear waste repository, set to store thousands of tonnes of hazardous reactor fuel, according to the federal government’s plans. Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the state’s […]
RT | July 16, 2019 Radiation levels in the Marshall Islands, where the US government tested its nuclear arsenal during the Cold War, are even higher than those found in Fukushima and Chernobyl, according to a newly released peer-reviewed study. The research, published by scientists at Columbia University in New York, found that tests of […]
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | July 15, 2019 Writing in The Jewish Journal under the title, “A Spillover Crisis: How Gaza’s Water Shortage Affects Israel”, Dominik Doehler explains the direct link between Gaza’s water problems and Israel. Doehler offered a scientific explanation behind the besieged Strip’s water crisis, but when it was time to […]
By Robert Dodge | Common Dreams | July 13, 2019 60 years ago today the largest nuclear accident in U.S. history occurred above the Southern California community of Simi Valley when the Santa Susanna Field Laboratory (SSFL) site suffered a partial nuclear meltdown. That accident, kept secret for two decades, has resulted in ongoing local […]
Sputnik – July 14, 2019 The UK’s sprawling nuclear processing Sellafield plant in Cumbria has a powerful claim to fame, dubbed the “most hazardous industrial building in western Europe”. There have been 25 safety breaches reportedly logged at the huge Sellafield nuclear waste plant in the UK over the past two years, according to The […]
