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Hong Kong ferry crash captains face manslaughter charges
Apr 11, 2013 (AFP)
Two Hong Kong boat captains appeared in court Thursday accused of manslaughter over a ferry collision last year that claimed 39 lives in the city's worst mariti...
Fukushima leaking radioactive water
Apr 11, 2013 (UPI)
Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has faced a series of radioactive water leaks. At least three of the facility's seven underground storage pools w...
Sensory helmet could mean firefighters are not left in the dark
Apr 10, 2013 (SPX)
A specially-adapted 'tactile helmet', developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide fire-fighters operating in challenging conditions w...
Americans back preparation for extreme weather and sea-level rise
Apr 10, 2013 (SPX)
The majority of Americans express support for stronger coastal development codes, according to a Stanford survey. Images told the story: lower Manhattan in dark...
Fukushima plant abandoning leaky underground pools
Apr 10, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it will abandon seven underground reservoirs storing radioactive water after three...
Fukushima fuel cooling system stops again:TEPCO
Apr 05, 2013 (AFP)
One of the systems keeping spent atomic fuel cool at the Fukushima nuclear plant temporarily failed on Friday, the second outage in a matter of weeks, underlini...
Environmental policies matter for growing megacities
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
A new study shows clean-air regulations have dramatically reduced acid rain in the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea over the past 30 years, but the ...
US drivers talk and text as much as ever
Apr 05, 2013 (AFP)
Americans are using cellphones and other gadgets behind the wheel as much as ever, despite widespread awareness of the risks involved, a federal government agen...
Finland's Fennovoima in talks with Rosatom over reactor
Apr 05, 2013 (AFP)
Finnish power company Fennovoima said Friday it was in exclusive talks with Russia's Rosatom over building a mid-sized nuclear reactor, after dropping bids by F...
Eyes in sky help when catastrophe strikes
Apr 03, 2013 (AFP)
Almost unknown to the public, a constellation of satellite guardians is flying overhead, and all it takes is a phone call for them to intervene when a country i...
Total of 54 Tibet landslide bodies recovered: state media
Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese rescue crews have recovered a total of 54 bodies in the aftermath of a huge landslide in Tibet that buried more than 80 mine workers, state television r...
More Tibet landslide bodies recovered: media
Apr 01, 2013 (AFP)
Recovery crews have found 36 bodies after a huge landslide in Tibet buried more than 80 mine workers three days ago, Chinese state-run media said Monday, but da...
Shellfish gone near damaged nuke plant
Apr 01, 2013 (UPI)
A species of shellfish has disappeared along an 18-mile stretch of coast near Japan's devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, scientists say. Researchers fr...
Hopes fade in search for survivors of Tibet landslide
Mar 31, 2013 (AFP)
Hopes were fading Sunday that Chinese search and rescue teams would find survivors, two days after a huge landslide crashed down a Tibetan mountain and buried m...
Half of Indonesians at risk of landslides: official
Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)
More than half of Indonesia's population live in areas at risk of landslides, an official said Thursday, with traditional farming methods blamed for the widespr...
Outside View: Homeless youth awareness
Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)
On March 22, 160 New York and New Jersey young professionals took on the challenge of sleeping out one night to raise awareness about homeless youth. Launching ...
Disasters caused $186 bn in damage last year: Swiss Re
Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)
Natural and man-made disasters caused $186 billion (152 billion euros) in damages worldwide last year, according to a calculation released on Wednesday by the S...
Britain enhancing SAR services
Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)
Britain's Department of Transport is enhancing airborne search-and-rescue operations nationwide through a contract to a private company. Under the contract, Bri...
Los Angeles drills response to 7.8 quake
Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)
Emergency teams staged a mock operation Thursday to respond to a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude quake in Los Angeles, saying the West Coast megalopolis needs to be ...
Where, oh where, has the road kill gone?
Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)
Millions of birds die in the US each year as they collide with moving vehicles, but things have been looking up, at least in the case of cliff swallows. Today's...
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