In May 2013, the carbon dioxide monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, recorded a major milestone — the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide had crossed the symbolic “red line” of 400 parts per million for the first time since record-keeping began. Now, three years and several record-breaking months later, the last station on Earth without […]
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This is not a passing fad. Last fall, the U.K. announced it would phase out all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025. According to the most recent data, the electricity sector accounts for nearly a third of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. (That is similar to the rate in the United States.) The news
Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO Chief of Decommissioning at the Fukushima Diiachi Nuclear Power Plant, has finally revealed that 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, is missing. This is a problem that nobody has experience with, as it is a 100% meltdown, possibly burrowed into the ground. Masuda has acknowledged that Japan does not yet
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