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Two workers' bodies recovered at Fukushima nuclear plant
The two are believed to have been killed when the tsunami struck. Meanwhile, Fukushima nuclear plant officials try to use concrete to stanch a leak of radioactive water, to no...
Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor
Fukushima meltdown fears rise after radioactive core melts through vessel – but 'no danger of Chernobyl-style catastrophe'The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted...
Pictures: Rare Penguins Blackened by Remote Oil Spill
A cargo ship crash has oiled hundreds of rare penguins on a remote Atlantic island—a ''grave environmental disaster,'' experts say.
Amazon fish is champion 'planter'
DURHAM, N.C., March 23 (UPI) -- A fruit-eating fish in the Amazon River is a champion forester, researchers say, spreading seeds into the surrounding forest and savanna when the...
Seeing through the cracks
While rescue workers in Japan continue their search for missing persons amid the rubble in Sendai and beyond, geologists are sifting through seismic data and satellite images for hints to...
Wind tunnel begins operations
On hot days it is often very still in cities because the high density of buildings prevents the air from circulating freely. In the newly commissioned wind tunnel operated by...
EU action on mackerel 'imminent'
EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 23 (UPI) -- Concrete proposals on the sustainability of mackerel stock from the European Union are "imminent," the Scottish fisheries secretary announced.
Feature: Decision nears on Papua New Guinea coastal mine waste dumping
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French-Turkish researchers detect early quake signals
Franco-Turkish researchers have found that a deadly 1999 earthquake in Turkey was preceded by seismic signals, raising hopes of a predictive system for future tremors as Japan reels from its...
Envy holds back agricultural development
Agricultural innovation in developing countries can be hampered and discouraged by envy, according to research published today by academics at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Estonia sees rock as future of global energy
A huge excavator bites into the earth of an open-cast mine, as the operator skillfully mans the controls in a cabin four storeys from ground level.
Video: States demand nuclear waste reform
The recent disaster in Japan has sparked fears in the U.S. over the storage of nuclear waste and potential dangers involved. Jim Axelrod reports that several states are now...
Scotland boosts eagle protection
Sea eagles are to be given further protection in a new three-year scheme, initiated by Scottish Natural Heritage.
Plantwatch: Welcome warmth brings spring blossom
Spring is coming in fits and starts, but has been spurred on over the past few days with some glorious warm weather. The bright yellow coltsfoot bloom that looks like a dandelion...
World Water Day Photos: Water-Savvy Cities
Nearly 50 percent of the world’s population lives in cities, and as that number continues to rise experts wonder how to provide fundamental water services, especially to...
Green: California Judge Calls Time-Out for Climate Change Law
Conservatives spent millions trying to derail California's global-warming law. Now it is on hold thanks to liberal activists.
Quake Question #14: Will Radiation Reach Hawaii?
Readers ask: Will radiation from the Japan quake and tsunami affect the Hawaiian Islands...
UW-Madison Lake Scientist Gets World's Top Water Prize
Noted University of Wisconsin-Madison limnologist Stephen Carpenter has been awarded the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize, the world's most prestigious award for water-related activities, it was announced in Stockholm, Sweden today...
The Mekong: Record of the Vietnam War
During the second half of the 20th Century, South-East Asia was the arena of a series of armed conflicts, direct consequences of the Second World War, decolonization and the Cold War, followed...
Plant buffers can slow runoff of veterinary antibiotics
Field tests support laboratory research indicating that vegetative buffer strips can reduce levels of herbicide and veterinary antibiotics in runoff from farm plots. Plant species tested included tall fescue, switchgrass...
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
This selection of essays edited by Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, and Byung-Kook Kim recovers and contextualizes many of the ambiguities in South...
First North Pole Ozone Hole Forming?
"Beautiful" clouds and cold temps are destroying protective Arctic ozone—and people as far south as New York could get burned, experts say.
Conservationists develop coral 'stress test' to identify reefs more likely to survive climate change
Researchers have developed a "stress test" for coral reefs as a means of identifying and prioritizing areas that are most likely to survive bleaching events and other climate change factors....
'Fossil seismograph' tells tale of ancient quakes
Ripples of mud in ancient lake bottoms could serve as evidence of earthquakes that ruptured in millennia past, researchers suggest.
Whitehorse promises more climate-change action
Whitehorse officials say the city will do more to fight climate change, after some recent reports gave the Yukon capital a failing grade.
Experts pore over contaminants in Japan's radioactive spill
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Authorities across Asia stepped up checks this week on Japanese imports after radioactive contaminants showed up in food and water in quake-stricken Japan following blasts at...
Middle East and Central Asia launch science body
The Economic Cooperation Organization is launching a foundation to boost science in the Middle East and Central Asia.
In the shadow of a melting glacier
Climate change causes glacial lake to burst its banks seven times in three years.