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Japan Takes Steps to Permanently Close First Nuclear Reactor Since Fukushima Disaster

05/23/2013

With five other reactors under review, it sends a signal to nuclear plants that it is no longer business as usual.

UN Report Says Natural Disasters Have Cost $2.5 Trillion Since 2000

05/22/2013

A new United Nations report makes the startling assertion that disasters have resulted in $2.5 trillion in damage within the last 13 years alone.

Climate Change and Melting Ice are Shifting the Polar Poles

05/21/2013

Every year since 2005, the North Pole has shifted several centimeters, and researchers have now attributed those rapid changes to climate change.

Shell Targeted With BP in EU Price Fixing Probe for Oil: Energy

05/20/2013

Three of Europe’s biggest oil explorers are among companies being questioned by European antitrust regulators about potential manipulation of prices …

Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says

05/17/2013

Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world…

Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 PPM Milestone

05/16/2013

“The last time we’re confident that CO2 was sustained at these levels is more than 10 million years ago, during the middle of the Miocene period,”

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to Be Downgraded From World Heritage Site

05/15/2013

“This is the world heritage body warning us that we need to (do) better or our reef, our most precious tourism icon…

Scientists Discover Methods of Harvesting Electricity from Plants

05/14/2013

When it comes to capturing solar energy, plants are first in their class.

Toxic Waste Sites Take Toll on Millions in Poor Nations

05/13/2013

… among the approximately 8.6 million people living near those sites, an estimated 828,722 years of healthy life were lost.

Melting Arctic Seas are Turning into Giant Pools of Acid, Researchers Warn

05/10/2013

Researchers warn that the cold Arctic seas are undergoing a process of rapid acidification as a result of rising carbon emissions.

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