ARGENTINES LINK HEALTH PROBLEMS TO AGROCHEMICALS
By MICHAEL WARREN and NATACHA PISARENKO In this March 29, 2013, photo, former farmworker Fabian Tomasi, 47, shows the condition of his emaciated body as he stands inside his home…
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MERKEL PARTY TOOK BMW MONEY BEFORE EMISSIONS CALL
German Chancellor and chairwoman of the Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel arrives for a meeting with the Christian Democratic parties delegation prior to exploratory talks about an coalition with the…
SHUTDOWN IMPACT: DEFENSE WORKERS RETURN TO WORK
Protestors hold signs during a during an event with the Democratic Progressive Caucus and furloughed federal employees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, as the budget battle…
OVERFLOWING TANK CA– USE OF NEW LEAK AT FUKUSHIMA
By MARI YAMAGUCHI This aerial photo shows the storage tank, fifth from left at left plot, which workers detected the water dripping from the top, at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear…
WAVE OF JELLYFISH SHUTS DOWN SWEDISH NUKE REACTOR
By GARY PEACH FILE – In this May 22, 2008 file photo, an exterior view of the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Oskarshamn, southeastern Sweden. Officials at OKG, which runs…
REPORT PONDERS: HOW SENSITIVE IS CLIMATE TO CO2?
By KARL RITTER FILE – In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo smoke billows from chimneys of the cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China.…
GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS JAILED AMID RUSSIAN PROBE
By ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA A police officer guards the US captain of the Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’, Peter Willcox in a cage in a court room in Murmansk,…
HO– USE BACKS BILL TO BOOST LOGGING IN NAT’L FORESTS
By MATTHEW DALY FILE – This March 18, 2011 file photo shows a Douglas fir tree on federal forest land outside Ruch, Ore. The blue paint marking a tree for…