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Oceans on the brink of disaster

The rate at which carbon is being absorbed by the ocean is already far greater now than at the time of the last globally significant extinction of marine species, some 55 million years ago, when up to 50% of some groups of deep —  sea animals were wiped out...

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Nuclear

US regulators weaken nuclear safety rules

Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Share:Click to...

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Food and Farming

OECD and FAO: High food prices will continue

“The impact on the poor in developing countries who spend a high proportion of their income on food can be devastating.” OECD News Release, June 17. 2011 Higher food prices and volatility in commodity markets are here to stay, according to a new report by the OECD and the UN Food and...

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Nuclear

Fukushima: It's much worse than you think

US nuclear expert: “We are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man’s-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square kilometres being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the...

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