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Veteran rescuers stunned by Japan damageOfunato, Japan (AFP) March 18, 2011 Picking through the wreckage of the port city of Ofunato on Japan's northeast coast, burly members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department are an incongruous sight. The veterans of devastating earthquakes in New Zealand and Haiti, as well as Hurricane Katrina, are part of the first response wave to Japan's worst-ever quake and the tsunami that followed, reducing whole cities to rubble. They are looking for survivors in the wreckage, but have found only bodies. Even this 70-strong team of e ... read more |
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  US nuclear plants get second safety look Some of America's nuclear power plants loom near big city populations, or perch perilously close to earthquake fault lines. Others have aged past their expiration dates but keep churning anyway. ... more | .. |
 US not prepared for 'mega-disaster': official The United States is not as prepared as it should be for a disaster on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, a former top emergency response official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Japan disaster dead, missing toll tops 16,600: police The official number of dead and missing after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast a week ago has topped 16,600, with 6,405 confirmed dead, police said Friday. ... more | .. |
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Japan agency hikes Fukushima accident level to 5 Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday raised the Fukushima crisis level to five from four on the international scale of gravity for atomic accidents, which goes to as high as seven. ... more | .. |
 Japan battles nuclear, humanitarian crisis Japan battled a nuclear and humanitarian crisis Friday as engineers worked to restore power to a stricken atomic plant, while the toll of dead and missing from the quake and tsunami topped 16,000. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO asked to pull workers from nuclear plant: report Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) asked the Japanese government earlier this week to permit a full withdrawal of its employees from the troubled nuclear plant now facing fears of a meltdown, a daily said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Cuts could cripple US tsunami warning: Official US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke warned Thursday that deep spending cuts sought by the White House's Republican foes could cripple the country's abilities to monitor tsunamis or severe weather. ... more |
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 Haiti's desperate tent dwellers pin hopes on election Perhaps no one is as invested in the outcome of this weekend's presidential election in Haiti as the hundreds of thousands of homeless still sheltering in the capital's squalid tent cities. ... more | .. |
 Tsunami alert system to be tested in Caribbean The Caribbean's readiness for the type of natural disaster that recently struck Japan will be tested when its tsunami warning system undergoes a simulated emergency. ... more | .. |
  Northern Peatlands A Misunderstood Player In Climate Change University of Alberta researchers have determined that the influence of northern peatlands on the prehistorical record of climate change has been over estimated, but the vast northern wetlands must ... more | .. |
 Ancient Hhyperthermals A Guide To Anticipated Climate Changes Bursts of intense global warming that have lasted tens of thousands of years have taken place more frequently throughout history than previously believe, according to evidence gathered by a team led ... more |
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  Viscous Cycle: Quartz Is Key To Plate Tectonics More than 40 years ago, pioneering tectonic geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson published a paper in the journal Nature describing how ocean basins opened and closed along North America's eastern seaboard. ... more | .. |
 Dairy Farmer Finds Unusual Forage Grass A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grass breeder has rediscovered a forage grass that seems just right for today's intensive rotational grazing. A farmer's report of an unusual forage gra ... more | .. |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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 New Findings On The Developments Of The Earthquake Disaster The earthquake disaster on 11 March 2011 was an event of the century not only for Japan. With a magnitude of Mw = 8.9, it was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded worldwide. Particularly i ... more | .. |
  WHOI-Led Report Links Sonar To Whale Strandings Scientists have long been aware of a link between naval sonar exercises and unusual mass strandings of beaked whales. Evidence of such a link triggered a series of lawsuits in which environmental gr ... more | .. |
 Natural Sequence Farming Improving land management and farming practices in Australia could have an effect on global climate change, according to a study published in the International Journal of Water. Natural Sequen ... more | .. |
 Japan choppers, trucks douse stricken atomic plant The Japanese military Thursday used trucks and helicopters to dump tonnes of water onto the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in efforts to douse fuel rods and prevent a disastrous radiation release. ... more |
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  US checks Japan travelers, finds no harmful radiation US border agents are monitoring travelers from Japan for signs of radiation, but have found no harmful levels to date, the Customs and Border Protection agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Mounting Japan crisis sparks exodus of foreigners Alarm over Japan's nuclear disaster grew with more foreign governments advising their citizens to flee Tokyo as army helicopters dumped water on an overheating plant at the centre of the crisis. ... more | .. |
 Russia's Chukotka backs polar bear hunting Russia on Thursday approved quotas allowing indigenous tribes in the remote Chukotka region to hunt endangered polar bears for the first time since the 1950s. ... more | .. |
  Bitter cold deepens Japan quake misery Thick snow covered the wreckage littering quake-hit Japan on Thursday, all but extinguishing hopes of finding anyone alive in the debris and deepening danger and misery for survivors. ... more |
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 30 whales stranded on Australian coast A pod of around 30 pilot whales became stranded on Bruny Island, south of the Tasmanian state capital Hobart, on Thursday, wildlife authorities said. ... more | .. |
 US West Coast boosts alert for Japan radiation The United States is boosting radiation monitoring on the West Coast and Pacific territories, as officials forecast that low levels could be detected in California by Friday. ... more | .. |
  TRMM Satellite Reveals Flooding Rains From Massive East Coast Storm The massive rain storm that stretched from New York to Florida last week dropped some record rainfall and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured that rainfall from spac ... more | .. |
Japan choppers dump water on stricken atomic plant Japanese military helicopters dumped tonnes of water Thursday onto the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo in a bid to douse fuel rods and prevent a disastrous radiation release. ... more |
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 Japan disaster dead, missing at 14,650: police The official number of dead and missing after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast has hit 14,650, police said Thursday, a rise of nearly 1,000 in just a few hours. ... more | .. |
 Japan to start screening food for radioactivity Japan instructed local authorities on Thursday to start screening food for radioactivity after accidents at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant sparked fears of wider contamination. ... more | .. |
 Foreigners flee Japan as warnings mount Airline tickets sold out Thursday and firms hired private jets to move staff out as foreign governments told their nationals to get out of Tokyo, fearing the nuclear crisis could escalate. ... more | .. |
 Prince William stunned at Christchurch quake damage Prince William expressed his shock at the devastation in earthquake-hit Christchurch Thursday after traipsing in the rubble to inspect the stricken New Zealand city first-hand. ... more |
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