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Polar meltdown sees us on an icy road to disaster
2015-05-04 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Amundsen sea sector in west Antarctica is almost as big as France. Six glaciers drain into it and one of the largest of these is the Pine Island glacier, a 30-kilometre-wide estuary of ice that is more than 500km in length. Stand on it, on a clear day, and swaths of glittering ice stretch off to the horizon in every direction. This is one of the worlds greatest bodies of fresh water, a vast frozen reservoir weighing more than 300tn tonnes. With that sort of resource, you could solve a great...
Fukushima reactor meltdown was man-made disaster, says official report
2015-04-13 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last year's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was a manmade disaster caused by poor regulation and collusion between the government, the operator and the industry's watchdog, a report has said. In a highly critical assessment published on Thursday, a Japanese parliamentary panel challenged claims by the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), that the triple meltdown at the plant in north-east Japan had been caused solely by a 14-metre tsunami on 11 March last year....
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Pilot sues airline over midair meltdown
2015-04-04 01:02:04| Airlines - Topix.net
A PILOT who yelled about Jesus and al-Qaeda during a 2012 trip from New York to Las Vegas has sued the airline for failing to recognise he was ill. DATA from the second Germanwings black box has revealed co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately increased the plane's speed as it went down.
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Ex-pilot who had midair meltdown sues JetBlue
2015-03-28 00:10:12| Airlines - Topix.net
A former JetBlue Airways Corp pilot whose midair meltdown forced an emergency landing of a 2012 flight on Friday sued the carrier for $14.9 million, saying it should have grounded him because it knew he was incapable of flying. Clayton Osbon, 52, filed his lawsuit in Manhattan federal court three days after the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps, which killed 150 passengers and crew.
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Muon scans confirm complete reactor meltdown at Fukushima Reactor #1
2015-03-20 20:28:36| Extremetech
Muon tomography scans have revealed that Fukushima did suffer a complete meltdown, and indicate a melt-through may have also occurred. The findings will impact how the site is cleaned.
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