Apr 11 Could ‘Financial Weather Observers’ Prevent Another Economic Crisis? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Michael Cassady Question: As I read deeper into the details about the financial crisis, it seems the root condition that capital is 'capitalizing upon,' excuse the pun, is the transitional inefficiencies affecting the integration of formerly hegemonic national economies… Continue reading
Apr 11 Strong Aftershock Jolts Japan on One Month Anniversary of Tsunami, Earthquake Disaster By Tom LeGro One month after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, 2-year-old Ayaka and family members pray for her missing grandmother and great-grandmother at a vacant lot where they lived in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images. As Japan somberly… Continue reading
Apr 08 NATO Confirms Air Strike Killed Libyan Rebels, Aftershock Kills 3 in Japan Libyan rebel fighters head for the frontline in the desert outside the town of Ajdabiya on April 8, 2011, as rebels indicated the front remained somewhere between Ajdabiya and the oil town of Brega, which is under the control… Continue reading
Apr 07 7.1-Magnitude Quake Hits off Japan Coast By Ray Suarez Updated 12:10 p.m. ET | Japan's meteorological society has lifted its tsunami warning, an hour and a half after the quake hit at 11:30 p.m. local time, the Associated Press reports. Updated 12 p.m. ET | The U.S. Geological Society… Continue reading
Apr 06 Q&A: IFRC on Evacuee Conditions, Nuclear Crisis Concerns By Betty Ann Bowser Tsunami survivors at an evacuation centre in Yamada, Iwate prefecture. Photo by Owaki Mutsuhiko / Japanese Red Cross Society The situation in Japan's evacuation centers is "dire" for the more than 170,000 people still displaced from their homes by the… Continue reading
Apr 04 Staring at the Sun By Jenny Marder As the sun enters its stormy season, and as GPS systems and electricity networks become increasingly vulnerable to solar eruptions, NASA scientists are working to better understand the mysteries of space weather. Continue reading
Apr 04 Japan to Release Radioactive Water into Pacific Ocean in Effort to Cool Reactors By News Desk Photo byTokyo Electric Power Co. Workers at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant are using a dye substance in an effort to trace the source of a leak spreading radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean and hampering efforts to… Continue reading
Apr 01 Fukushima Evacuees May Be Homeless for Months as Cleanup Continues Japanese firemen pick through the rubble looking for bodies of victims of the tsunami in a flooded area of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on April 1, 2011. Thousands of Japanese and U.S. troops launched an intensive air and sea… Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch News Wrap: Groundwater Beneath Fukushima Plant Shows High Radiation Levels Radiation levels climb in area surrounding Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant. Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch Tsunami in the Northwest? Japan Disaster Offers Wake-Up Call to Coastal U.S. Spencer Michels reports on new attention to disaster preparations in the U.S. Continue watching