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Japanese Lab Workers Exposed to Low Levels of Radiation

2013-05-26 04:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: As many as 55 workers at a national laboratory may have been exposed to low levels of radiation after an experiment overheated, releasing radioactive particles into the air, the agency operating the lab said Saturday. While the size of the accident was small, it received intensive coverage in Japans news media, a reflection of the anxiety over nuclear safety since the Fukushima accident two years ago. The president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, which ran the lab, resigned last week over...

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Suspected ID thief exposed by food porn on Instagram

2013-05-12 19:06:14| CNET News.com

Investigators say that a man accused of being in illegal possession of 50,000 IDs was caught after they found an image he took of a steak and macaroni and cheese meal on Instagram. [Read more]

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Health defects found in fish exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill, three years later

2013-05-01 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, scientist. With researchers from Louisiana and South Carolina, the scientists found that Gulf killifish embryos exposed to sediments from oiled locations in 2010 and 2011 show developmental abnormalities, including heart defects, delayed...

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Dirty Banks Exposed for $20 Billion Investment in Dying Coal Industry

2013-05-01 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: This week, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club and BankTrack released the fourth annual coal finance report card, Extreme Investments: U.S Banks and the Coal Industry. The report finds that in 2012, the banking sector financed $20.8 billion for the dirtiest coal companies, even as U.S. coal consumption for power generation fell 11 percent and as mounting scientific evidence confirmed coals extreme impact on health and climate change. It ranks Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase...

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