"China Arrests Anti-Smog Campaigners"
"Activists are thought to have been inspired by a viral documentary that tried to highlight China's toxic smog problem but was censored by Beijing"
Source: Telegraph, 03/10/2015
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"Fukushima Residents Torn Over Nuclear Waste Storage Plan"
"Norio Kimura lost his wife, father and 7-year-old daughter Yuna in the March 2011 tsunami."
Source: Reuters, 03/10/2015
"China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution"
China's Communist Party has banned from the web a documentary about pollution in China that had gone viral with hundreds of millions of views during the week after its release.
Source: NY Times, 03/09/2015
"The Anti-Pollution Documentary That's Taken China By Storm"
"Two hundred million and counting: That's how many times a documentary about China's massive air pollution problem has been viewed online since the weekend. Environmentalists are hailing it as an eye-opener for Chinese citizens."
Source: NPR, 03/05/2015
Siberian Crater Saga Is More Widespread And Scarier Than Anyone Thought
"At the end of last summer came news of a bizarre occurrence no one could explain. It was a massive crater that just one day showed up. Early estimates placed it at nearly 100 feet in diameter, nestled deep in Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula, a place called 'the ends of the Earth.'"
Source: Wash Post, 02/26/2015
Fresh Leak of Radioactive Water Detected at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
"Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water into the sea."
Source: AFP, 02/23/2015
Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership
Winnifred Bird and Jane Braxton Little, a former SEJ mentor program pair, describe (with humor!) the process of how they turned their shared interest in the Fukushima disaster's affect on forest ecosystems and rural communities into a successful writing collaboration.
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"India’s Rebounding Tiger Population Grows 30 Percent in 4 Years"
"India’s tiger population has rebounded, growing more than 30 percent over the last four years to 2,226, according to a new government census released on Tuesday."
Source: NY Times, 01/21/2015
"Pakistan's Coastal Villagers Retreat as Seas Gobble Land"
"KETI BUNDER, Pakistan -- For fisherman Sammar Dablo, it was as if "the seawater stole our homes" when land erosion forced his village to relocate further inland on Pakistan's south coast."
Source: Reuters, 01/09/2015
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