'Inhospitable Oceans' Acidifying at Rate Unseen in 250 Million Years (or Ever) | Jon Queally

New study shows oceans in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's history (Photo: 'Rough Ocean'/Flickr/Jacqueline Fasser) Aug. 26, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In both a ...

International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised | Jon Queally

Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant Water woes: Workers stand atop a tank for highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nucl ...

News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima) | Ana Miller and Greg Laden

News from Fukushima Update # 69 Aug. 24, 2013 (ScienceBlogs) -- Over the last several weeks we’ve heard repeated, alarming, and generally worsening, news from Fukushima Diachi, the Japanese nuclear p ...

The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close ...

Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales

Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsiu ...

The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zucco ...

Occupy Freedom and Vigilance (post-Sandy) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 6, 2012 “Free speech? Try it and the police will be there with their horses, their clubs, their guns, to stop you.” - Howard Zinn I was stan ...

When Zombies Invade, Who Do You Want for President? | Jeffrey Goldberg

Illustration by Ted McGrath Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- And so we are finally here, and not a moment too soon. Every insult has been hurled, every fact misrepresented; positions have been shifted and ...

Storm Threatens Sandy-Devastated Northeast With Chilling Rain | Brian K. Sullivan

A damaged boat sits outside a destroyed mobile home in the Paradise Park trailer park in Highlands, New Jersey, on Nov. 3, 2012. Photograph: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A nor ...

Sandy’s Blackouts Fall to 2.5 Million With New Jersey Worst Off | Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson

Nov. 4, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Utility crews working around the clock restored power to more than a million homes and businesses yesterday, with New Jersey making up more than half of the 2.5 million st ...

Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson

A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ...

'Inhospitable Oceans' Acidifying at Rate Unseen in 250 Million Years (or Ever) | Jon Queally

International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised | Jon Queally

News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima) | Ana Miller and Greg Laden

The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud

Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales

The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.

Occupy Freedom and Vigilance (post-Sandy) | Mickey Z.

When Zombies Invade, Who Do You Want for President? | Jeffrey Goldberg

Storm Threatens Sandy-Devastated Northeast With Chilling Rain | Brian K. Sullivan

Sandy’s Blackouts Fall to 2.5 Million With New Jersey Worst Off | Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson

Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson

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