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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. [More]
Read More »Some progress at Japan reactors, disaster toll rises
* Power cable reaches crippled Fukushima reactors * More than 21,000 dead or missing in northeast [More]
Read More »Biodiverity’s Ills Not All Down to Climate Change
By Quirin Schiermeier Climate change is affecting the world in many ways. [More]
Read More »Self-Constraint Leads Us To Prefer Aggression
How do you feel when you deny yourself something you want? Like skipping that snickers and reaching for the carrot
Read More »Chernobyl Opens For Tourism
Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis is a gruesome reminder of another nuclear accident, the worst in history: Chernobyl is approaching its 25th anniversary. And, believe it or not, the area is open for tourism
Read More »Attention, Ann Coulter: Report to aisle 5 for radiation clean-up
Well, I am impressed how conservative columnist Ann Coulter finds ways to make headlines. The darling of the radical right ventured into science journalism the other day, when during an interview with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, she said that radiation above the government cutoff is good for you.
Read More »Fate of Nuclear Plant in Japan Hangs in the Balance as Melting Continues
As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The covering darkness is not the only reason for confusion: vital systems monitors have lost power, making the status of critical elements--such as the integrity of the nuclear fuel rods in reactor No.
Read More »Is space like a chessboard?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space.
Read More »What You Need to Know about the Japan Nuclear Crisis
Updated Friday, March 18 [More]
Read More »Day-to-Day Satellite Photos Reveal the Unfolding Crisis at the Nuclear Power Plant in Japan [Slide Show]
In the days following Japan's March 11 earthquake, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant there suffered increasing damage as its cooling systems failed, probably causing a build-up of hydrogen gas that led to explosions at three of its reactor units. [More]
Read More »Home-birth Study Investigated
By Erika Check Hayden The 25,000 US women who give birth at home each year received shocking news from the nation's obstetricians early this year. [More]
Read More »MESSENGER spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Mercury
On March 17, after a roundabout, nearly seven-year journey, NASA's MESSENGER probe became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury , the closest planet to the sun.
Read More »Taking Waves: Nation’s First Tsunami-Resistant Building Could Be Built on the Oregon Coast
Plans to build the nation's first tsunami-resistant building are unfolding in Cannon Beach, Ore., in a region that is almost identical, seismically, to the subduction zone that triggered the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week.
Read More »Health Risk Fears Escalate as Japan Nuclear Plant’s Radioactive Release Remains Uncertain
Infinitesimal radioactive isotopes can be carried along on the breeze, landing unseen on the ground, clothes and skin. These tiny products of nuclear reactions are capable of causing large-scale damage in the body if they make it inside through inhalation, ingestion or even a cut. And many fear that such isotopes spewed from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are traveling inter-continentally--and in higher quantities than Japanese officials are reporting
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