Fukushima's Radioactive Leak: 5 Things You Should Know About Japan's Ongoing...
5. How does Fukushima compare with the Chernobyl meltdown? The Chernobyl meltdown involved the explosion of an entire reactor
View ArticleFukushima's Radioactive Plume Could Reach U.S. Waters By 2014
A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake
View ArticleSockeye Salmon Sushi: Use a Geiger Counter
Does elevated, uncontrolled radiation gush--as from an artery--out of Japan's maimed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and into the Pacific Ocean?
View ArticleNot So Tough Now Are Ya, Mother Nature?
After 200,000 years of trying to wipe us out, and getting damn close once, we finally have the upper hand. That's right. We're changing the climate. We're shaking things up (Literally. We can make our...
View Article3 Years Later, Remembering the Japan Earthquake
Three years ago, I was living in Tokyo during the March 11, 2011 earthquake. I was plunged into deep fear, and over the next two days I slowly crawled my way out of my panic. Today I'm remembering...
View ArticleThree Years After The Japanese Tsunami: The Winds Of Changelessness
A culture whose existence has been based, for as long as it's been a culture, on uncertainty, impermanence and due caution about everything we don't know, is much as it's always been.
View Article3 Years After Fukushima, Life Returns in the Sea
Nature is desperately trying to survive and return to its original state. The animals disappeared when they lost their ecosystem, but now, after three years of struggling to rebuild it, they are...
View ArticleSanfrecce Hiroshima Team Remembers Japan's Tsunami Victims With Soccer Pitch...
) On the third anniversary of Japan's 2011 tsunami on Tuesday, Japanese soccer players made a moving tribute to the nearly
View ArticleFukushima Anniversary: Three Years After The Disaster, Japanese Still Do Not...
"The cheapest solution is to continue producing nuclear energy in the short term," Mousseau told host Alyona Minkovisi. "Each
View ArticleTo Reduce the Impact of Disasters, Increase the Focus on Children
The number of children affected every year by disasters is projected to reach 175 million over the next ten years -- a figure that will have nearly tripled since the early 1990s. Children represent...
View ArticleClimate Change, Media, Psychology & the Denial of Death
This isn't perceived typically as a welcomed change to "do the right thing" but as a form of death, to their bottom lines
View ArticleTrace Levels Of Fukushima Radioactivity Found In Tuna Caught Off Oregon,...
At the most extreme, radiation levels tripled from fish tested before Fuskushima and fish tested after. That level was 0.1
View ArticleHitchhiking
The truth is, we weren't looking for a vacation, we were looking for an adventure. We were looking for that beautiful chaos -- the extraordinary feeling of anything can happen.
View ArticleCat Returns Home THREE YEARS After Japanese Tsunami
It was Suika! He was reunited with his family on May 9. It's unclear how Suika survived the ordeal, but his story is one
View ArticlePaula Bronstein and The Big Story
How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms?
View ArticleYears After Japan's Earthquake Disaster, A Community Struggles To Pick Up The...
The Minamisanriku-cho Office of Measures for Disaster Prevention. Before speaking there, Sasaki took a moment to pay his
View ArticleBeautiful Photos Capture Japan's Resilience 4 Years After Its Worst Disaster...
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck northeast Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and a crippling nuclear
View Article4 Years After Japan's Devastating Tsunami, Life Is Returning To The Sea
Sato ran a diving shop in Minamisanriku before the tsunami. His store was washed away by the massive wave but he has since
View ArticleIn Japan, A Library Works To Restore What Was Lost In The Tsunami
In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, caring for the dead and wounded were paramount. But in the years that have passed
View ArticleHow 90,000 Lost, Damaged Photos Were Restored And Returned To Victims Of 2011...
Once the photos were clean and dry, they were scanned and uploaded a digital database where people affected by the tsunami
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