Environmentalism

Back to Fukushima. Former residents weigh up returning to nuclear ghost town of Okuma

RT Documentary • December 12, 2019 In March 2011, an earthquake hit Japan, setting off a tsunami that caused an accident at the Daiichi nuclear power station in Fukushima prefecture. Radioactive contamination settled on the surrounding area, and the authorities decided to evacuate the population living within a 20km radius around the power station. Watch […]

Do ‘green’ buses pass the performance test?

Do they even pass basic energy, environmental, economic and human rights tests? By Duggan Flanakin | Watts Up With That? | February 15, 2020 Should Americans follow China in a massive commitment to supposedly eco-friendly battery-electric buses (BEBs)? California has mandated a “carbon-free” bus system by 2040 and will buy only battery or fuel cell-powered […]

Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth, NASA Study Shows

Over the last two decades, the Earth has seen an increase in foliage around the planet, measured in average leaf area per year on plants and trees. NASA satellite data shows that China and India are leading the increase in greening. The effect stems mainly from ambitious tree planting programs in China and intensive agriculture […]

US At Risk of Ecological Disaster Due to Improperly Stored Nuclear Waste, New Study Finds

Sputnik – January 29, 2020 The United States does not currently have a landfill for nuclear waste from the defence industry, which is normally stored inside metal canisters buried underground near the nuclear plants where it was produced. The United States could face the risk of nuclear contamination due to inadequate nuclear waste storage methods, […]

No Plan B for Planet A

Replacing fossil fuels with “renewable” energy would devastate the only planet we’ve got By Paul Driessen | Watts Up With That? | November 26, 2019 Environmentalists and Green New Deal proponents like to say we must take care of the Earth, because “There is no Planet B.” Above all, they insist, we must eliminate fossil […]