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May 24, 2012 (TSR) - The Government of Victoria, Australia, has signed an agreement with Mobil Oil Australia to stop the discharge of industrial wastewater into the Yarra River. Petroleum producer…
May 24, 2012 (TSR) - The Government of China is planning to allocate CNY500bn ($79bn) for the prevention and control of water pollution in major drainage areas until 2015. The plans…
by Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian Economist, Economic Adviser to governments of developing countries and Consultant for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), African Development Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO), World Health Organisation (WHO), et al. April…
April 12, 2012 (TSR) - Millions of people living along the coastline of the Indian Ocean were left breathing a sigh of relief today after warnings of a devastating tsunami were lifted following…
March 13, 2012 (TSR) - Monsanto’s Roundup, containing the active ingredient glyphosate, has been tied to more health and environmental problems than you could imagine. Similar to how pesticides have been contributing…
Jan. 14, 2012 (TSR) - As many as 300,000 or more died. Many others were injured. Impoverished Haitians enduring crushing hardships lost everything, including loved ones. Two years later, relief efforts…
Radioactive materials spewed out from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant reached North America soon after the meltdown and were carried all the way to Europe, according to…
The Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway, which is scheduled to open soon, represents a milestone in Chinese and even world railway history. It is even more significant than the high-speed railways linking…
REYKJAVIK - A volcano erupted under Iceland’s biggest glacier on Saturday, with a white plume shooting 18,000 feet into the air, scientists said. However, geologists played down the likelihood it would cause…
TOKYO (AP) – Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as it…
Japan’s Coastline Before and After the Tsunami These images show the effects of the tsunami on Japan’s coastline. The image on the left was taken on Sept. 5, 2010; the…
Competing currents: A huge whirlpool forms in a harbor near Oarai City, Ibaraki Prefecture, north eastern Japan. The currents that were disrupted after the tsunami were channeled by the sea…
Australian state to stop waste discharge into the Yarra River
China allocates $79bn to prevent water pollution
Fukushima: A Nuclear War Without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
FALSE ALARM: Millions breathe sigh of relief after tsunami alert is lifted
Monsanto ravaging Butterfly Population
Haiti: Two Years Later
Radioactive dust from Fukushima plant hit N. America soon after meltdown: researchers
Beijing-Shanghai hi-speed rail marks milestone in rail history
Iceland’s Grimsvötn volcano erupts, 50 quakes; air chaos unlikely
Japan ups nuke crisis severity to match Chernobyl
Japan’s Coastline Before and After the Tsunami
Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves
