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Low-level radiation found in Massachusetts rainwater
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 27th, 2011
Reuters: Trace amounts of radioactive iodine linked to Japan's crippled nuclear power station have turned up in rainwater samples as far away as Massachusetts during the past week, state officials said on Sunday.
The low level of radioiodine-131 detected in precipitation at a sample location in Massachusetts is comparable to findings in California, Washington state and Pennsylvania and poses no impact to drinking supplies, public health officials said.
Air samples from the same location in Massachusetts...
Growing urban water demand poses challenge to natural environment
Posted by The News: None Given on March 27th, 2011
The News: The speakers at a seminar said growing urban water and sanitation demand, increased pollution from municipal and industrial discharges, climate change and its unforeseen risks and challenges and over-exploitation of available water resources are posing grave challenges to the natural environment.
They were speaking at a seminar titled "˜World Water Day 2011' organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). The seminar focussed on the impacts of rapid urban population growth, industrialisation...
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Posted by Washington Post: Editorial on March 27th, 2011
Washington Post: AS THE CRISIS at Japan’s stricken reactors wears on, it’s increasingly clear what a step away from nuclear power will mean for Europe and Asia: more coal, which means more nasty particulates, carcinogens, carbon dioxide and other dangerous effluences spewing from sooty smokestacks around the world.
As radiation levels outside the Fukushima Daiichi plant rise, so did the value of stocks of American companies that mine and export the black stuff. Business analysts expect demand for U.S. coal to...
Brazil needs to unblock climate talks: Bill Clinton
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 27th, 2011
AFP: US ex-president Bill Clinton urged Brazil to push to get global climate change talks unblocked by getting key trade partners, the United States and China, to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
"You cannot create a sustainable future for Brazil alone; you have got to convince enough other greenhouse gas emitters, including the US and China, your two biggest trading partners, to go with you on this," said Clinton, in a speech to Brazilian business executives in this sweltering city in the heart of the...