In Japan, in order to cut back on the usage of electricity, many retail stores are cutting back on operating hours, and on lighting.
Japanese consumers have less time to shop, and in some stores, are shopping in the dark. Stores are keeping most of their lights turned off.
Consumers say they don’t mind, especially because […] Continue Reading…
Even in the areas that are on the periphery of the natural disaster areas, in north east Honshu, trash collection has come to a near stand still.
Temporary trash dumps have been set up in parks and baseball fields.
NHK reporting that survivors of the March 11 quake/tsunami, are getting sick at the emergency shelters.
Officials say they are now taking steps to prevent further spread of a flu like illness.
Interviewed by CNN Bill Nye the Science Guy was asked if he was calling Fukushima Daiichi another Chernobyl. His answer: “I am, yeah!”
Nye explained that the only way the reactors can be emitting such high levels of radiation is that deadly plutonium is getting out. Plutonium is created when the uranium fuel is “jolted” […] Continue Reading…
For weeks nuclear officials wanted to get water into the reactors, of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Now they’re trying to get it out.
It looks like the problem is that they used salty sea water to cool the reactors. It helped to keep the reactors cool enough, but it created pressure inside the reactor chambers. […] Continue Reading…
Recently in Brussels, Belgium, the EU parliament was surrounded by about 20,000 protesters. They wanted to know where the taxes they paid went to.
“This money was made to be used for social security. It was meant to be used for social health, not to help the banks.”-Serge Monsieur, protester
Governments across Europe are dealing […] Continue Reading…
Scientist in japan say the March 11 tsunami had the power of an atom bomb.
They estimate that the wall of water had a punch of 40 tons per square meter. This explains the total devastation of the towns and cities hit by the monster wave.
“the need to adapt [to the time change] is connected with stress and illnesses.”-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
This spring is the last time Russia will change its clocks. Come October they’ll be no daylight savings to deal with. In 1981 the Soviet Union started a daylight savings program. Russia continued the program, but more and […] Continue Reading…
Thousands of people took to the streets in London, on March 26. Police were attacked with paint bombs and ammonia bombs. Businesses were attacked, even delivery trucks. The Cause? Huge budget cuts for schools and health care, and War.
“It’s been ten years now that we’ve been intervening in wars. We had the war […] Continue Reading…
The recent catastrophic disaster in Japan, which tore up many rail lines in northern Honshu, has brought back to life retired diesel powered locomotives.
That’s because, even on the rail lines that have been fixed, there is no electric power to run Japan’s modern electric trains. Electric power is going to be an issue for […] Continue Reading…