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Scientists censure McGill University over ties to asbestos industry.
Dozens of prominent medical researchers and scientists from across Canada and around the world have signed a letter demanding that McGill University sever its ties with the asbestos industry.
Montreal Gazette
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Filmmaker sounds alarm over ocean of plastic.
On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with plastic objects their parents have mistaken for food. That surreal sight, says film director Craig Leeson, is one of the many symptoms of a plague afflicting the world's oceans, food chains and human communities: the onslaught of discarded plastic.
Agence France-Presse
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Cadmium pollution exposes lax regulations.
The latest incident in the city of Hechi, an "unprecedented" cadmium contamination, is certainly not an isolated case.
Xinhua News Agency
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Wishing upon an atom in a tiny French village.
The protesters who periodically descend upon the French rural village of Fessenheim say the aging nuclear power station here, in the woods beyond the cornfields, is a calamity in waiting.
New York Times
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Yakuza labor structure formed base of nuclear industry.
A labor practice involving "disguised subcontracts" is illegal under Japan's Employment Security Law. But the practice has remained widespread for years at nuclear plants around the nation, according to sources.
Asahi Shimbun
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Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima.
Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes–unlike the Chernobyl site, which remains inside a wide no-go zone a quarter-century after the accident there.
Associated Press
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Bird numbers plummet around stricken Fukushima plant.
Researchers working around Japan's disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbinger of the impact of radioactive fallout on local life.
London Independent
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New generation of nuclear reactors could consume radioactive waste as fuel.
A generation of "fast" nuclear reactors could consume Britain's radioactive waste stockpile as fuel, providing enough low-carbon electricity to power the country for more than 500 years, according to figures confirmed by the chief scientific adviser to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The Guardian
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Is your orange juice safe?
Low levels of a banned pesticide found in orange juice imported from Brazil is safe for sale in the domestic supply, says the Food and Drug Administration after conducting new tests. The juice is tainted with the fungicide carbendazim, and will soon reach American grocery stores.
ABC News
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Man arrested in Chile for stealing a glacier.
A truck carrying nearly 12,000 pounds of illegally removed glacial ice was stopped in the Chilean town of Cochrane this week.
Christian Science Monitor
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Evidence for jellyfish invasion is lacking.
Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world’s oceans. In a new study, however, researchers argue that there simply isn’t enough long-term data to conclude that global jellyfish numbers are on the rise.
New York Times
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Canada plan to sell oil to China faces big hurdles.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plan B for tar sands oil could prove to be even tougher. Though it appears a classic supply-demand match on the surface, the plan faces hurdles that range from how long it will take to build the pipeline to environmental dangers and questions about China's human rights record.
Reuters
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Caroline Spelman refuses to deny plans to slash environmental regulations.
The environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, has refused to deny that the Cabinet Office is proposing to rip up of thousands of pages of environmental regulations and guidance as part of the government's "red tape challenge".
The Guardian
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Scores dead as cold snap grips Europe.
A cold snap is keeping Europe in its icy grip, pushing the death toll to 163 as countries from Ukraine to Italy struggle with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places.
Agence France-Presse
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UN declares Somali famine over but warns of risks.
The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
Associated Press
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West Africa: Water shortage threatens wildlife.
The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region, which threatens humans and wild animals alike.
Inter Press Service
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Typhoid outbreak is 'biological warfare'–Mugabe party.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has attributed the typhoid outbreak that has affected 1,500 people in the capital Harare to biological warfare and Western sanctions.
Kampala Daily Monitor
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Japan governor wants nuclear safety pledge in writing.
Japanese governor Tokihiro Nakamura believes nuclear power is vital for the resource-poor land, but even he says the central government must put safety pledges in writing before he'll agree to restart off-line reactors–a sign of the tough battle ahead to repair tattered public trust after the Fukushima crisis.
Reuters
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Advisers charge reactor stress tests ignore lessons of March 11.
The stress tests to review nuclear plant safety don't include lessons from the Fukushima No. 1 disaster, effectively ignoring the reason for running the checks, according to two government advisers.
Bloomberg News
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Fukushima reactor leaks, radiation tiny: Tepco.
More than 8 tonnes of radioactive water leaked from a reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant but none reached outside the reactor building, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Thursday as it strives to ensure damaged reactors are stable enough for work to start on dismantling them.
Reuters
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Officials punished after cadmium pollution.
The environmental protection chief of a city in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has been dismissed following the contamination of one of the city's rivers, local authorities said Friday.
Xinhua News Agency
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South China river cleanup to last one month.
Cleanup procedures had brought the cadmium concentration peak down from 80 times the official limit to 20 times the limit on Thursday, said Zhang Xiaojian, an expert with the center and a professor of Tsinghua University.
China Daily
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Malaysia to monitor Aussie rare earths plant.
Malaysian authorities sought Friday to quell protests over its move to approve an Australian mining company's rare earths plant by pledging to appoint an independent monitor to review the project safety and to closely scrutinize its production.
Associated Press
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70 percent of lakes in Hanoi get polluted, need urgent solutions.
According to the Center for Environment and Community Research (CECR), of the 100 lakes, big and small, in the six districts of the inner Hanoi city, 71 percent of lakes have incurred organic pollution.
VietNam Net
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Winter chill has made Mumbai’s pollution worse.
For a dynamic city like Mumbai, it is difficult to stop new constructions or renovations of old buildings. But it is these constructions combined with the chilly weather that are making Mumbaikars unhealthy.
New Delhi Times of India
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Queensland poll 'a referendum on reef's future.'
The Queensland election must be a referendum on the future of the Great Barrier Reef, which is under immense pressure, a conservation group says.
Sydney Sky News
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State disaster declared as flood waters rise in outback Queensland.
A state disaster has been declared in Queensland; it is expected that Mitchell could see the Maranoa river rise to 10 metres tonight–a record level for the outback town. Police advised that most local roads were flooded in Roma as water continued to rise.
Australian Associated Press
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Floods create 'inland sea' in Australia.
Major flooding hit parts of Australia's east on Friday, stranding thousands of residents, prompting a military airlift and leaving some communities accessible only by helicopter.
Agence France-Presse
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Canada, Alberta to announce new oil sands monitoring.
Separate panels commissioned by the two governments last year found that the current monitoring regime, which is backed by oil sands producers, is not capable of assessing the effect of oil sands production on the environment.
Reuters
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Asbestos leaves burning questions for parents.
Asbestos found in a dust sample collected at a Brampton elementary school has some parents in the community deeply worried about the health and safety of their children.
Brampton Guardian
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