"Special Report: The Hungry Generation"
"One young child in four around the world is too malnourished to grow properly, a major new investigation reveals."
Source: UK Independent, 02/15/2012
Disasters
"Will Hurricanes Topple U.S. Wind Turbines?"
"As plans for wind farms rising out of the ocean along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts inch closer to fruition, a new study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that hurricanes could destroy a significant number of turbines in some of these areas, even coming close to wiping them out."
Source: Green (NYT), 02/14/2012
Europe: "Snow Blocks in Tens of Thousands as Cold Death Toll Rises"
"Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe's big freeze rose past 550.
More heavy snow fell on the Balkans and in Italy, while the Danube river, already closed to shipping for hundreds of kilometres (miles) because of thick ice, froze over in Bulgaria for the first time in 27 years.
Source: AFP, 02/13/2012
"Fukushima Reactor Readings Raise Reheating Concern"
"Concern is growing that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is no longer stable after temperature readings suggested one of its damaged reactors was reheating."
Source: Guardian, 02/13/2012
"California Fish and Game To Sue Army Corps Over Levee Tree Ban"
"The California Department of Fish and Game intends to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its policy banning trees on levees."
Source: Sacramento Bee, 02/10/2012
"Welders Question PG&E's Gas Pipeline Work"
"Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s old gas lines are riddled with potentially lethal weld flaws, and new welding that the company's crews did during pipeline testing last year is suspect, two veteran welders told state regulators this week."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 02/09/2012
SacBee Wins Access to Forest-Fire Documents
A federal judge ruled that once the documents — depositions of US Forest Service employees about a 2007 forest fire in California that burned tens of thousands of acres — had been entered into court records as part of the evidence discovery process, they were presumptively public records and had to remain that way.
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Memos Confirm BP Hid Early Spill Estimates
Internal BP corporate memos dating back to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout show that the company was concerned about a spill rate much higher than what it publicly estimated at the time. The memos were released as part of federal court proceedings.
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"Low-Lying Louisiana Prepares for Sea Level To Rise"
"NEW ORLEANS -- A scientific report issued by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration predicts that the Louisiana coast could see about 3 feet of sea level rise along the already low and vulnerable Louisiana coast by 2100 -- a prediction that leaves this Cajun coast drowning and under siege from storm surge for decades to come."
Source: AP, 02/08/2012
Messages Show Conflict Within NRC After Japan's Earthquake And Tsunami
"In the confusion following the earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex last March, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was standing by to help. But a trove of e-mails posted on the NRC's Web site shows an agency struggling to figure out how to respond and how to deal with the American public while cutting through what one official called "the fog of information" coming out of Japan."
Source: Wash Post, 02/08/2012
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