A 6.7-magnitude earthquake has struck in the Indian Ocean south of the Indonesian island of Java, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said this morning.
Indonesian seismologists have issued a tsunami warning but the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no risk of a widespread destructive wave, only a “very small possibility of a local tsunami”.
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Scientists are predicting that the world’s largest super-volcano in one of America’s most popular national parks could erupt in the near future.
Yellowstone National Park’s caldera has erupted three times in the last 2.1million years and researchers monitoring it say we could be in for another eruption.
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WELLINGTON (AFP) – A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Fiji region on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued.
The undersea quake hit 321 kilometres (200 miles) west of Suva at a depth of 555 kilometres at 2:07 am (1407 GMT), USGS said.
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A nuclear expert has warned that it might be 100 years before melting fuel rods can be safely removed from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant.
The warning came as levels of radioactive iodine flushed into the sea near the plant spiked to a new high and the Wall Street Journal said it had obtained disaster response blueprints which said the plant’s operators were woefully unprepared for the scale of the disaster.
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The first UN climate talks of the year in Bangkok this week look to hammer out tough details of a global pact that has offered hope in the fight against global warming.
The six days of talks, which begin Sunday with informal workshops, are being held as the world’s energy problems are in sharp focus amid Japan’s nuclear power crisis and with oil prices hovering near record highs.
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Singapore has told the UN nuclear watchdog some cabbages imported from Japan had radiation levels up to nine times the levels recommended for international trade.
“The Singapore authorities sent reports on measurements in food imported from Japan, namely cabbages … some samples were over the Codex Alimentarius values recommended for international trade,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokesman Denis Florey said.
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Thousands of Japanese and US troops have launched an intensive air and sea operation to recover bodies of those killed in the huge earthquake and tsunami that ravaged north-east Japan three weeks ago.
The grim search came as the government revealed that radiation from a nuclear power plant crippled by the twin disasters had been found in groundwater, with contamination already reported in the air, ocean and food.
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Mangroves, which have declined by up to half over the last 50 years, are an important bulkhead against climate change, a study released on Sunday has shown for the first time.
Destruction of these tropical coastal woodlands accounts for about 10 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation, the second largest source of CO2 after fossil fuel combustion, the study found.
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Japanese workers struggling to contain a crisis at a crippled nuclear plant discovered a crack in a pit leaking highly radioactive water straight into the sea, the firm operating the facility said.
In a discovery regulators said might explain the radioactive water that has hobbled efforts to quell Japan’s nuclear crisis, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the radiation in the pit at its No.2 reactor in Fukushima measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour.
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JAPAN’S unfolding nuclear disaster is “much bigger than Chernobyl” and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert says.
“Chernobyl was a dirty bomb explosion. The next dirty bomb is Fukushima and it will cost much more” in economic and human terms, Natalia Mironova said.
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Surabaya. East Java’s deputy governor has ordered officials to prepare for possible evacuations in areas hit by a caterpillar outbreak, a report said on Friday.
Saifullah Yusuf also requested authorities to monitor the situation in Probolinggo district, where villages were swamped by thousands of caterpillars, said Edi Purwinarti, the governor’s assistant on people’s welfare.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The severe storm that brought tornadoes, hail and flooding to Tennessee was declared a major disaster by President Barack Obama, making federal money available for recovery efforts.
The storm that caused four deaths by March 1 featured flash floods particularly in the mountainous eastern part of the state.
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Japan’s prime minister is travelling to the country’s nuclear disaster zone as workers continue to brave radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant to battle the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.
Naoto Kan is due to visit a sports camp that has been turned into a base for military, firefighters and engineers working inside an evacuation zone in an effort to cool the six-reactor complex and contain contamination before Japan seeks a permanent solution.
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Video Report: Firefighters in the US are excercising to the beat of hip hop after reading the results of an internet poll.
Scottish statistics company Faro I-Pol found that people in high stress jobs could relax and stay fit by dancing to hip hop better than by conventional methods.
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A 6.2-MAGNITUDE earthquake hit today in an area of north-eastern Japan jolted by a massive quake and tsunami disaster earlier this month, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The quake struck at 6.15pm (AEDT) about 417 kilometres north-east of Tokyo, at a depth of 39.6 kilometres, the USGS said.
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WASHINGTON – Varying levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from the West Coast state of Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
The FDA said such findings were to be expected in the coming days because of the nuclear crisis in Japan.
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