The Nevada Radioactive Waste Dump (File photo) Press TV – April 24, 2018 The United States is struggling to handle the excessive amounts of plutonium generated at the cores of its many retired nuclear reactors, according to a new report, raising fears that it might end up in the wrong hands. Today, there are some […]
By Chris Busby | CounterPunch | March 20, 2018 George Monbiot, who has now been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the young age of 55, was therefore born in 1963, at the peak of the atmospheric test fallout. He is thus a peak exposed (at risk) member of a cohort of those exposed in the […]
Review by Martin Kokus | February 7, 2018 Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The origin of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Bernie Lewin. Published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Paperback $16.00, Kindal $7.00. Available from Amazon This book is a must read for those interested in the current climate debate and its […]
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | January 3, 2018 Short summary: scientists sought political relevance and allowed policy makers to put a big thumb on the scale of the scientific assessment of the attribution of climate change. Bernie Lewin has written an important new book: SEARCHING FOR THE CATASTROPHE SIGNAL:The Origins of The Intergovernmental […]
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By Yves Engler · October 14, 2017 The “Ugly Canadian” is on the march, but now with a much prettier face at the helm. Across the planet, Canadian mining companies are in conflict with local communities and usually have the Trudeau government’s support. A slew of disputes have arisen at Canadian run mines in recent […]
Sputnik – 26.09.2017 Plans to transport nuclear waste from Britain to a sacred Aboriginal site in southern Australia could now be put on hold. Proposals to ship nuclear waste from northern Scotland to a heritage site considered important to indigenous groups in Australia may be halted. Campaigners acting for Aboriginal Australians are challenging a bid […]
Energy from offshore wind just got a lot cheaper. The cost of subsidies for new offshore wind farms has halved to £57.50 per megawatt hour (MWh) since the last government auction in 2015, after two developers – Denmark’s Dong Energy and Spain’s EDP – bid aggressively for subsidy contracts to build new farms in 2022-23.
The results of the auction shocked industry analysts, who had expected prices to be around the £70-80 mark.
North Korea has taken a lot of crap from China over the decades. Now it looks ready to dish it back. Let’s welcome the world’s ninth bona fide nuclear power: North Korea! North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t just a deterrent; they’re leverage for North Korea to push away from China and push the United States toward acceptance of North Korea as a legitimate state. That was just some of the bad news for China on its periphery as headaches pile up in the Himalayas, Myanmar, and Cambodia.
teleSUR | August 1, 2017 Since 1990, Cuban medics have treated over 26,000 victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, scientific network Scielo reported in a recent study. The areas of treatment, according to Scielo, were primarily focused on dermatology, endocrinology and gastroenterology. The report detailed that 84 percent of the total number […]
