Sep 03 Watch Japan to Build Frozen Wall to Stop Radioactive Water Leaks at Fukushima Japan announced plans to build a frozen wall around the damaged Fukushima power plant in an attempt to stop radioactive leaks, amid news that water used to cool nuclear reactors has been leaking into groundwater. Tom Clarke of Independent Television… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch News Wrap: 64-Year-Old Nyad Finished Cuba-Florida Swim In other news Monday, after 53 hours in the water Diana Nyad, 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. It was the fifth time Nyad attempted the feat across the 110-mile Florida Strait. Also, nuclear officials… Continue watching
Aug 20 China May Have New Shipping Shortcut Thanks to Melting Arctic Ice By Elizabeth Shell The Chinese commercial cargo ship Yong Sheng makes its way from east Asia to western Europe through the new northern "shortcut" above Russia. The Northeast Passage is made possible for a few weeks to months this summer due to melting… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest and its Inhabitants to Oil Extraction Effort Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest and its Inhabitants to Oil Extraction Effort… Continue watching
Aug 16 Ecuador Pulls Plug on Innovative Cash-for-Conservation Plan in Amazon Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, pictured here at an interview in Portoviejo, Ecuador, on June 29. Photo by Meridith Kohut/Bloomberg via Getty Images. BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ecuador will open a pristine swath of the Amazon to oil drilling after the… Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese Who Are Anti-Nuclear Power Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese Who Are Anti-Nuclear Power… Continue watching
Aug 08 Six Telling Figures from Japan’s Leaking Fukushima Nuclear Plant By Larisa Epatko New revelations that the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan is leaking more radioactive groundwater than previously thought have prompted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to say Wednesday that the government will step in and "take firm measures"… Continue reading
Aug 08 How Environmentalists Lost Their Battle Against the Border Fence Congress is considering building hundreds of miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of immigration reform. During the last big fence-building push, the fight that centered on the fence's potential effects on San Diego's fragile border… Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch Japan May Create Frozen Ground Barrier to Stop Radioactive Leak in Fukushima Since an earthquake and tsunami shattered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in 2011, radioactive water has been pouring into the sea off the coast of Japan at a rate of 300 tons per day. Jeffrey Brown reports on the revelation… Continue watching
Aug 07 Watch Tempers May Flare and Conflicts Rise as Climate Change Heats Up, Study Finds Tempers May Flare and Conflicts Rise as Climate Change Heats Up, Study Finds… Continue watching