All posts categorized with Nuclear accidents

(Natural News) As one of its closing acts before leaving the stage, the Obama administration plans to relax EPA guidelines regarding maximum allowable radiation levels in the nation’s drinking water, increasing them to levels thousands of times above current legal limits. A federal lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led to the […]

(Natural News) Scientists are warning that a tear in the Earth’s crust in the Banda Sea to the north of Australia could lead to serious natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis as they get closer to understanding the fault and its ramifications. Perhaps the word “tear” is misleading; it is actually one of the […]

(Natural News) In recent weeks, two new landmarks were crossed in the ongoing, inexorable spread of radioactive material from the 2011 Fukushima disaster toward North America’s west coast. In November, researchers from the Fukushima InFORM project detected the radioactive isotope Cesium-134 (Cs-134) in Canadian salmon. Then on December 9, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution […]

(Natural News) An animated earthquake map video produced by the U.S. NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) shows every recorded earthquake between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2015, – the first 15 years of the 21st century. The amazing and somewhat terrifying animation proceeds at a rate of 30 days per second, and reveals […]

(Natural News) The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is one of the biggest environmental terrors of our generation. An entire region of Japan was turned into a complete disaster area because of the negligence of one corporation. As horrifying as the initial disaster was, the longterm effects are what we should all be focused on — because it […]

(Natural News) Niigata City is the capital of the Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It is located on the island’s west coast adjacent to the Sea of Japan. Depending on the route taken, Niigata is a mere three to four hour drive across the island to the east coast town of Namie and other cities that remain desolate, abandoned and set apart inside a nuclear exclusion zone, the […]

(Natural News) Thanks to the environmental disaster that was Fukushima and the incredibly long half-life of iodine-129, the Pacific coast may never be the same again. It will take about 16 million years for the contamination from the tremendous nuclear accident to dissipate. While a vast array of radioactive isotopes were released into the environment […]

(Natural News) The Fukushima disaster continues to prove that its tidal wave of environmental destruction will reach across the globe. The western coast of North America, for example, has been experiencing a dramatic decline in marine life. With cases of malnourished and starving sea lions and brown pelicans popping up along the coastline, whales and […]

(Natural News) In 2013, Natural News featured a story about the high rate of seal pup deaths along California coastlines. The article stated, ” . . . this is the season that seal pups flourish, instead they’re struggling ashore in starved emaciated conditions. . . Scientists will say almost half the sea lions born this past winter have […]