Estimating the Potential Impact of Failure of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool

Dr. Paul Gailey sent me the following email: Because so many claims were flying around with regard to Fukushima’s spent fuel pool number 4, we performed a technical analysis of the situation to gain some perspective on the parameters of the crisis. If you are interested, there is a link to our Special Report on […]

Fouling our world

Man’s consumption is driving unprecedented environmental damage. POPULATION growth and unsustainable consumption are driving Earth towards “unprecedented” environmental destruction, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned. Of 90 key goals to protect the environment, only four have seen good progress, it said in a planetary assessment issued only every five years. “If current trends […]

Balancing population growth and resources

The world’s population reached seven billion in October 2011. The sixth billion was reached in 1999 and it is significant that the seventh billion took the same number of years (12) to add as the sixth. This is relevant because prior to that there had been a progressive shortening of the time taken to add […]

Stanford biologists call for humanity to ‘scale itself back’

It’s a dire message, but that’s the point. The quote comes from a paper by Stanford biology Professors Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily, with the Nature Conservancy’s Peter Kareiva, published in Nature’s new Rio+20 issue. The successor to the United Nations’ 1992 Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20 begins on June […]

Global summit aim to fund population control

World leaders to meet in London in July to pour cash into family planning in the developing world A major summit is being planned for July that aims to pour money into family planning in the developing world after almost two decades of neglect, particularly during the Bush years. Parallel to this, millions of dollars […]

What will happen when Earth is overpopulated?

The following inquiry came from an eighth-grader in Pennsylvania. Q. In science class, we learned that one day there will be too many people to produce enough food and shelter for all of them. I asked my science teacher two questions that he wasn’t sure how to answer. What will happen when the world becomes […]

Earth faces impending tipping point

A group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destructive consequences absent adequate preparation and mitigation. “It really will be a new world, biologically, at […]

Debris from Japan Arrives in Oregon

A nearly 70-foot-long dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year’s tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, a Japanese Consulate official said Wednesday. A commemorative plaque on the dock showed it was one of four owned by Aomori […]

The global water crisis will shake humanity to its core

You don’t hear much about the water crisis in the United States. Water is still cheap here and our borders contain a relatively large freshwater supply. But in some places the crisis is in flames. 1.6 billion people live in regions with absolute water scarcity and by 2025 two-thirds of the world’s population could be […]

Babies! At the end of the world

Babies! Are the answer. Babies are also the reason. Babies are the problem and the solution, the currency and the contract, the apocalypse and the salvation, all wrapped in cute little rainbow diapers and outlandish college funds that make you weep well into 2042. Who knew? I have recently returned from Spain. Spain is sultry […]

Truth about Fukushima

The release of radioactivity from Fukushima is at least as great as from Chernobyl, and a humanitarian disaster on the scale of Chernobyl needs to be averted by acknowledging the truth and taking responsibility for mitigating measures Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Regulators seriously economical with the truth “Few people will develop cancer as a consequence of […]

The last ASPO conference

  On the evening of the first day of the 10th ASPO conferencein Vienna, Rembrandt asked me if I’d write again the usual summary. My immediate answer was “No”. Lack of time and motivation let me far from such undertaking. Hours later a title popped up in my mind; the dead time at airports and […]

Canada Oil Sands And The Precautionary Principle

The precautionary principle is typically defined as “if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific evidence that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action.”  In […]

Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report Concluded that Ocean May Not Adequately Dilute Radiation from Nuclear Accidents

The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean. Remember, the reactors are “riddled with meltdown holes”, building 4 – with more radiation than all nuclear bombs ever dropped or tested – is missing entire walls, and building 3 is […]

The water crisis is now

By the time you finish reading this article, at least five children will have died because of diseases borne by dirty water. Studies show that by 2025 half the world’s population will not have enough water to meet its needs. Already a billion people do not have access to clean water, and more than two […]

Tokyo Professor: We are facing a nuclear winter in Japan

Toshio Nishi is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1991 to the present, Nishi has been a distinguished guest professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan, and from 2004 a graduate school professor at Nihon University in Tokyo. […] From 1985 to 1991, Nishi was a foreign correspondent for NHK Journal, a radio […]

Population is a Profound Challenge for People and Planet

A scientific study released by the London-based Royal Society finds that the world’s human population growth and consumption of natural resources by rich countries present “profound” challenges to economies and our environment. The report, People and the Planet, includes several recommendations for ensuring the health of all life on the planet, including supporting voluntary family […]

Inside America’s worst toxic waste cover-up

Film Review: The Big Fix exposes BP’s efforts to minimize awareness of North America’s biggest oil spill. In the weeks after the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded and oil began pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, filmmaker Josh Tickell was in touch with folks back home in Louisiana. The stories they told about the spill were […]

A Guided Tour of Catastrophe

The pop environmentalist polemic follows a rigid formula. From its best-selling beginnings, with angry screeds like Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” (1962) and Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb” (1968), the genre has mobilized generations of activists by inducing nightmares of planetary destruction. The Earth’s future is “in the balance,” we are but a few generations from […]

Operators Admit Fukushima Radiation Levels Exceed 2 1/2 Times Announced

Fukushima plant operators are now admitting that the Fukushima radiation levels emitted from the disaster exceeds almost two and a half times the initial ‘estimate’ produced by Japanese safety regulators. The announcement comes after independent researchers exposed the true amount of radiation leaked from the plant back in October of 2011. The study revealed that significantly more radioactive caesium was released into the […]

Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima’s Radioactivity

“Two independent reports show that the public and most workers received only low doses of radiation following last year’s meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Nature reports that the risks presented by the doses are small, even though some are above guidelines and limits set by the Japanese government. Few people […]

Fukushima disaster is ‘nuclear war without a war’

It has been more than a year now since the massive 9.0-plus magnitude earthquake and corresponding tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the eastern coast of Japan, sending untold amounts of nuclear radiation into the environment. And to this day, the threat of nuclear fallout is ever-present all around the world in […]

Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?

Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there. What he saw was horrific. And now he is saying that we are in big trouble. See the letter he sent to U.S. Ambassador to […]

More New Quakes Shake Fukushima

Earthquake Information Japan Meteorological Agency 17:50 JST 20 May 2012 17:42 JST 20 May 2012 Sanriku Oki M5.1 2 17:27 JST 20 May 2012 17:21 JST 20 May 2012 Sanriku Oki M5.4 2 16:54 JST 20 May 2012 16:49 JST 20 May 2012 Ibaraki-ken Hokubu M3.3 1 16:38 JST 20 May 2012 16:28 JST 20 […]

Degrowth (De-growth), Natural Resources, Population Growth, and Economic Collapse

We have seen how oil shortages can wreak havoc on the global economy and result in dramatic shifts in the global balance of power. Many people are now starting to realize that the dream of unlimited growth and economic expansion is coming to an end. The Depletion Wall argues that the age of consumerism will […]

A new solution for our plastic waste?

Polyester polyurethane is unappetizing to most living things – including the sea creatures who encounter it in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where recent news shows insects are starting to lay their eggs on pieces of plastic. What will we do with all the plastic we make – and the oil that we use to make […]

Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking

A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick. The study would look at detailed health histories on hundreds of thousands of people who live near the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation in which energy companies have already drilled about […]

At Least One Million Will Die From Fukushima Radiation

Fukushima Video by The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy The government of Japan has failed to protect its people and is hiding the dangers of radiation from Fukushima. There are options for radio-protection that have not been disclosed. When people cannot avoid radioactive contamination there are safe radioprotectants that can help prevent the damage.

We Are Living As If We Had One and a Half Planets

The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries. Released ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, it calls on the world to modify production and consumption patterns and turn to renewable energy sources. “Overall, biodiversity has […]

EPA Grossly Misrepresents The Toxicity Of Corexit Used In Gulf Of Mexico

Quite incredibly, the EPA issued a positive report on May 1, 2012 regarding the safety and toxicity of various dispersants use in the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Included in this assessment was the use of Corexit. This report “indicated that all eight dispersants had roughly the same toxicity, and all fell into the “practically non-toxic” […]

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