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Bushfire Response: Disaster Spending in Australia Faces Overhaul Amid Calls Climate Action
2015-01-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The federal government has signalled it wants to reduce spending on natural disaster recovery and shift its focus to reducing the risks before an event strikes. The Greens renewed their calls for the government to take strong action against climate change while fire crews worked to contain blazes in South Australia and Victoria on Sunday. The justice minister, Michael Keenan, did not directly respond to the climate change criticism, but said the government would speak to state and territory...
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Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for first time since disaster: official
2015-01-05 04:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fukushima rice passed Japan's radiation checks for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster that prompted international alarm over the region's produce, a prefectural official said. Fukushima official Tsuneaki Oonami said about 360,000 tonnes of rice, nearly all of last year's harvest, had been checked and none had tested above the 100 becquerels per kilogram limit set by the government. "The fact that the amount of rice that does not pass our checks has steadily reduced in the last three...
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Rabbi fears climate disaster by end of century
2015-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Diego Jewish News: When Jeffrey Newman first arrived as the rabbi at Finchley Reform Synagogue in Britain in 1973, he, by his own self-description, was an idealist. And while he knew that he might not be able to change the world, he decided he would at least like to make a difference while serving there. And he did, according to members of the London synagogue and staff. Since retiring in the year 2000, Rabbi Newman knew he still wanted to make a difference in the world, and since then he has been using social media...
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Prosecutors won't indict former Tepco executives over Fukushima disaster
2014-12-26 07:48:12| Energy - Topix.net
Japanese prosecutors will likely decide again not to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power Co executives over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, media reported on Friday, but a rarely used citizen's panel could still force an indictment. The Tokyo District Prosecutors Office has been reinvestigating the case after a citizens' panel ruled in July that three former Tepco executives, including then-chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, should be indicted over their handling of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
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Govt. releases more accounts of Fukushima disaster
2014-12-26 03:43:02| Energy - Topix.net
The Japanese government has released more interview accounts of the 2011 nuclear accident. 772 interviews were conducted in 2011 and 2012 by a government committee that investigated the disaster.
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