Strong earthquake jolts northeastern Japan; no tsunami warning issued

Japan’s Meteorological Agency says a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 has jolted northeastern Japan, the same region devastated by March’s massive quake and tsunami. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the Saturday afternoon quake, and no tsunami warning was issued. The quake was centered 25 miles (40 kilometers) […]

What happened and what do we face in Fukushima?

What happened in Fukushima, Japan on March 11, 2011 may be the most sinister global disaster in the recorded history of our planet. The repercussions of this historic disaster will remain for centuries to come. The manifestations of nuclear radiation from the meltdown of the reactors in Fukushima will haunt humanity in ways that we’ll […]

Grantham On The Coming “Peak Everything” Disaster

It was just three short months ago that Jeremy Grantham was spewing Malthusian fire and brimstone. He did so, however, from a broadly generalist perspective. Today, the head of GMO has released his second follow up in the “peak everything” series which is sure to provoke yet another round of bickering and debate between the […]

The next climate debate bombshell

Get ready for the next big bombshell in the man-made warming debate. The world’s most sophisticated particle study laboratory—CERN in Geneva—will soon announce that more cosmic rays do, indeed, create more clouds in earth’s atmosphere. More cosmic rays mean a cooler planet. Thus, the solar source of the earth’s long, moderate 1,500-year climate cycle will […]

Overpopulation debate comes to one conclusion

Overpopulation is the world’s biggest problem, write biologists Mary Ellen Harte and Anne Ehrlich in Thursday’s Op-Ed pages. They contend that the world’s growing population is creating an unsustainable strain on Earth’s resources and forcing the future of humanity to hang in the balance. Our editorial board recently took a similar position in “Diffusing the […]

Typhoon increases level of radioactive water in Reactor No. 1 basement by 17 inches in a day — Likely to continue rising

Heavy rain brought by a tropical storm has increased the level of radioactive contaminated water at the basements of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. […] Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO, the plant’s operator, says that at 7 AM local time on Thursday, the level of contaminated water pooled at the basement of […]

Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests

Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in some 20 countries containing half the world’s people. The overpumping of aquifers for […]

The world’s biggest problem? Too many people

Our unsustainable population levels are depleting resources and denying a decent future to our descendants. We must stop the denial. Think back on what you talked about with friends and family at your last gathering. The latest game of your favorite team? “American Idol”? An addictive hobby? The new movie blockbuster? In a serious moment, […]

Japan radiation specialists accuses TEPCO of total cover-up regarding radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers

Reports continue to surface about Japan’s tsunami-caused nuclear disaster at the Fukushima complex, and this time Japanese radiation specialists say the plant’s owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company, is engaged in a number of cover-ups and misinformation campaigns. One specialist, Nishio Masamichi, director of the Hakkaido Cancer Center, who initially called for “calm” in the early […]

The Chinese Oil Spill

It took a month to admit that there was an oil spill in China’s Bohai Bay, from June 4 when it happened to July 5 when The Global Times, in an unusual reaction from a presumably government controlled newspaper, wrote “We cannot help but wonder: is the SOA (the State Oceanic Administration) a serious watchdog […]

The World at 7 Billion: Can We Stop Growing Now?

With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on an overtaxed planet is becoming more and more evident. A two-pronged response is imperative: empower women to make their own decisions on childbearing and rein in our excessive consumption of resources. Demographers aren’t known for their sense of humor, but […]

Global fertility dropping dramatically as UN celebrates World Population Day

World  Population Day was celebrated yesterday, as it has been every year since 1989. Propaganda spewed from the United Nations and other “green” organizations tell us that our carbon footprint needs to be reduced, we are having too many children, and our energy consumption needs to be cut in half. This propaganda is for the […]

The Price of Gas

What’s the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it’s about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the […]

China says oil spills still not controlled

China has ordered ConocoPhillips to immediately halt output at two offshore platforms in the Bohai Bay off its northeast coast, saying recent oil spills were not fully under control. The State Oceanic Administration said Wednesday it wanted the company to completely eliminate any risks of leaks after spills were found from platforms B and C […]

Exxon: Yellowstone River Cleanup and Recovery Update

Under the direction of the Unified Command, almost 700 people are now involved in the response and cleanup effort including ExxonMobil’s North America Regional Response Team, the Clean Harbors and ER oil spill response organizations and additional contractors. We have deployed more than 43,000 feet of boom and approximately 260,000 absorbent pads to clean up […]

Too Much Life on Earth?

The specter of overpopulation was raised once more in 2008 by the decline in global food stocks and rapid deterioration of the environment. The figures are frightening — 218,000 more mouths to feed each day, 80 million more each year, a global population now close to 7 billion. But overpopulation is as much a question […]

Family Planning: It’s Time to Welcome Men Into the Discussion

Yesterday, on World Population Day, the United Nations Population Fund officially launched 7 Billion Actions — a campaign to raise awareness and action around our planet’s growing population, which is set to reach 7 billion later this year. The campaign is a wake-up call to the health, environmental, and social challenges associated with rapid population […]

During April, The People In Seattle Could Have Just As Easily Been In Tokyo For The Amount Of Hot Particles That Were There

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said recently: During April, the people in Seattle could have just as easily been in Tokyo for the amount of hot particles that were there. (For background on “hot particles”, see this and this.) Of course, radiation monitoring in Seattle may be kept secret. As that Washington Department of Health notes […]

Radiation Coverups Confirmed: Los Alamos, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima, TSA

A series of disasters, potential disasters, bad news and worrying studies over the course of the past week have brought public attention back to the issue of radiation and its attendant health risks, and further exposed how governmental agencies that are supposed to protect the public have in fact knowingly put the public at risk […]

Japan says Fukushima clean-up to take 20 years

Japan’s Prime Minister has announced that it will take up to 20 years to clean up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It’s the first time the government has attempted to indicate how long the operation may take. Emergency measures are already underway to shut down the reactors to prevent further radiation leaks. The Fukushima plant […]

How China accidentally geoengineered the climate

Between 2003 and 2007, China burned so much coal that it increased global consumption of the stuff 25 percent. That put so much sulfur into the air that it more or less literally (temporarily) blotted out the sun, masking some of the global warming that otherwise would have occurred during the first decade of the […]

Japan Quake Strikes Near Nuclear Plant

An earthquake struck Japan early Friday morning local time (2:30 pm EDT, Jul 7) off Honshu island in northeast Japan. This is the same area that was devastated by a large earthquake in March that knocked out power to the Fukushima nuclear plant. The US Geological Survey reports that the earthquake had a magnitude of […]

(Philippines) Discussions on population should not be on numbers but on life quality

With the world population expected to reach seven billion by the end of October – with more than 100 million of them Filipinos – an official of the United Nations said yesterday the focus of discussions should not be about numbers but on the quality of life of these people. Ugochi Daniels, country representative of […]

China offshore oil spill spreads 320 square miles

Oil that spewed from an offshore drilling rig in northeastern China for two weeks last month has spread over 320 square miles, government officials acknowledged Tuesday, amid uproar over why it took so long for fishermen, local residents and environmental groups to be informed of the spill. News of the accident emerged in late June […]

Tepco Shuts Down Cooling System At Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant After Sparks Detected

The cooling system at Fukushima’s Daiichi sister plant was closed earlier today after Tepco announced that “sparks were detected”. According to TEPCO this is no cause for alarm and the situation will be restored back to normal shortly. According to yet other news, after 4 months of lies, TEPCO has started telling the truth. From […]

7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Samoa; Sparks Tsunami Warning for New Zealand

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami warning and sending coastal residents fleeing to higher ground. The quake was strong enough for the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre to issue a tsunami warning for a large swathe of the South Pacific including Fiji, […]

Iceland Volcano Prepares To Blow

The news of a possible imminent eruption comes just over a month after this year’s violent eruption at the Grimsvoetn volcano, in the south-east of the country. That eruption subsided after less than a week, having spit out far more ash than Eyjafjoell, but due to more favourable winds for Europe caused far less air […]

Dick Smith’s Population Crisis

Population Crisis. Dick Smith in conversation Dick Smith’s Population Crisis is Smith’s new book exploring the crucial issue of unsustainable population growth around the world including, in his view, in Australia. In this interview with SlowTV’s Nick Feik, Dick Smith explains why population is the issue that lies at the heart of many of the […]

Restoring A Ruined Earth: The Heroic Mission of Thomas Berry

Industrial civilisation has changed everything. At the dawn of the petrochemical age in 1750, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide were estimated to be 280 parts per million (ppm). In 1960, they were around 360 ppm. In May 2011 levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide had reached over 394 ppm. The oceans of the earth are presently […]

Are We Running Out of Resources?

Saudi Arabia is not exporting the amount of oil they had hoped. Many analysts are saying that the Middle East may be running out of oil. It humors me that “Peak Oil” is considered a lefty view and that it is even called “Peak Oil”, when it really just says that the earth is going […]

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