(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH: The Center For Biological Diversity (the Center) launched an online petition, after President Donald Trump announced the largest national monument rollback in U.S. history on December 4, 2017, before a mostly Republican crowd in Salt Lake City, Utah. If successfully implemented, the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Gävle, Sweden — Wild boars (Sus scrofa) loaded with dangerous quantities of cesium 137 have been turning up in tests conducted in central Sweden. Some specimens have been found carrying levels as high as 16,000 becquerels of radioactivity per kilogram of meat — an…
(EnviroNews World News) — An airborne plume of radioactive ruthenium 106 from a nuclear accident was detected “in the atmosphere of the majority of European countries,” from late September through mid-October, according to France’s Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) — but the source is still unknown. As…
(EnviroNews World News) Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — From the air, it’s been said that the areas directly surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant resemble a multi-colored “giant integrated circuit board.” That’s because more than 1,100 various and sundry tanks, housing radioactive water from the ongoing nuclear crisis,…
(EnviroNews World News) — A video surfaced on June 30, 2017, displaying a gruesome event, but one filled with sweet revenge — at least if you are a bull. The video emerged on the website LiveLeak and was uploaded by the user Eoin Kelly, who didn’t have much…
(EnviroNews World News) — Henan, China — Viewers are furious with the content of a graphic video that has surfaced and is now circulating around the web. The contents: a dog, yelping and crying for its life, as it is boiled alive in front of a crowd of…
(EnviroNews World News) — The Chairman, and two Vice Presidents of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will stand trial for the death of 44 people who were killed in the ensuing melee following the March 11, 2011 triple nuclear reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant…