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
Mar 31 Japan's Radioactive Leak: What Are the Long-Term Consequences? By Talea Miller Fukushima nuclear power plant. Environmental and nuclear scientists in the U.S. are watching apparent leakage discovered at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor site this week with a concerned eye, for both health effects and impact on the environment. Japanese safety… Continue reading
Mar 31 Radioactivity in Seawater Near Nuclear Plant Reaches New High 1 p.m. ET | Tepco said Thursday that the water beneath the damaged reactor has radioactivity measuring at 10,000 time the legal limit, though it still believes the drinking water supply to be safe. French and U.S. Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch NOVA Explores Science Behind Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami NOVA looks at the scenes behind the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan. Continue watching