August 14, 2011
Farmers work in a padi field at Khokana village, located south of Nepal's capital Kathmandu July 27, 2011. Atmospheric levels of methane, 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat, stayed steady for two decades to 2006 on wider fertilizer use to grow rice or a surge in natural gas demand, according [...]
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August 8, 2011
Researchers warn that urban noise pollution will exact a severe toll on Ho Chi Minh City eardrums Dense traffic at the Hang Xanh crossroads in Ho Chi Minh City. Doctors warn that the city’s excessive lvel of noise pollution is a threat to the hearing of residents. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong sold her house [...]
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July 1, 2011
Environmentalists are hopeful the first international study of dioxin contamination around Bien Hoa Airbase will pave the way for a US-funded cleanup International and local researchers conduct sediment sampling around the Bien Hoa Airbase. The first-ever international study has confirmed continued dioxin contamination at the airbase and called for an immediate stop to fish [...]
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June 19, 2011
No headway can be made against drinking and driving if punitive measures are not meted out strictly and obviously Vu The Bang, 65, of Binh Phuoc Province’s Dong Phu District crashed into a parking truck in drunk condition and was killed on the spot in an accident last June. The government is discussing a [...]
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May 4, 2011
A fishing boat cruises in the Ilulissat fjord on Greenland's western coast, 2004. Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland’s ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday. Such a rise — above most past scientific estimates — would add [...]
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April 2, 2011
In a handout picture released by Greenpeace and taken on March 27, 2011 shows a Greenpeace team member holding a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour in Iitate city, Fukushima Pressure grew on Thursday for Japan to expand an evacuation zone round its stricken nuclear plant where radiation hit 4,000 [...]
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March 30, 2011
A shopper checks the producing area of vegetables at a supermarket in Tokyo on March 29, 2011 after the government ordered a halt to shipments of certain foods following abnormal radiation levels found in products near the quake-hit nuclear plant Small amounts of radiation from Japan’s leaking nuclear power plant have spread across Asia, authorities [...]
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March 29, 2011
Reactors No. 1 to 4 are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant in Fukushima in this satellite file image, taken and released by DigitalGlobe March 18, 2011 Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after radiation in water at the crippled nuclear power plant reached potentially lethal [...]
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March 20, 2011
A woman is screened for radiation at a screening centre in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on March 20, 2011 Japan restored power to a crippled nuclear reactor on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one [...]
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March 20, 2011
A police officer stands at an area destroyed in Kesennuma city, Miyagi Prefecture, March 18, 2011. One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a greater catastrophe. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks sprayed [...]
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