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Wildlife heaven or nuclear hell: Chernobyl future up for grabs
2016-03-11 12:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A white-tailed eagle soars in the clear winter air. It is hunting for fish in one of the most radioactive bodies of open water on the planet: the 12-kilometre-long cooling pond whose waters doused the burning Chernobyl nuclear power station after it exploded 30 years ago. The pond is radioactive as are the fish. But they are also abundant. Wildlife is booming in the exclusion zone that stretches for some 30 kilometres from the corroding plant. Grey wolves, lynx, wild boar, rabbits, moose...
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Locals eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl: Greenpeace tests
2016-03-09 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Economic crises convulsing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus mean testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been cut or restricted, Greenpeace said, and people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels. According to scientific tests conducted on behalf of the environmental campaigning group, overall contamination from key isotopes such as caesium-137 and strontium-90 has fallen somewhat, but lingers, especially in places such as forests. People...
Chernobyl 30 years on: former residents remember life in ghost city of Pripyat
2016-03-07 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a biting winter wind, Alexander Petrovich Zabirchenko walks slowly along a memorial to firefighters and workers who died in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, touching each of the portraits engraved in granite. He does not shiver or complain of the cold. He is a big man and draws himself up to his full height before each sombre stone. Here is Valeri, and here Vladimir and Alexandr and Anatoli I knew these men, he says. I worked with them. They were colleagues and friends. As one of the...
Ecuador: Chevron's 'rainforest Chernobyl' - victims fight for compensation
2016-02-01 05:27:34| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
It won't come as a surprise to many readers that Chevron is not the most honest or law-abiding company in the world. In Australia, the International Transport Workers Federation has exposed over $35 billion in unpaid tax revenue for its offshore gas operations , while the Maritime Union of Australia has repeatedly protested the company's exploitation of immigrant labour.
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As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning
2016-01-29 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: As aides escorted him past swaying chandeliers to a panic room, the mind of Japan`s prime minister flashed to his country`s seaside nuclear power stations. Tremors in Tokyo meant tsunamis, Naoto Kan, a physics graduate, feared. It was 11 March 2011. The next day 250km north-east of the capital, three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant went into meltdown as cooling systems failed. Large explosions shot radioactive materials into the atmosphere following a barrage by 20-metre waves. Over...
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