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Dahr Jamail | Japan Plans to Expose Its People and 2020 Tokyo Olympians to Fukushima Radiation
The Japanese government is claiming illnesses are due to psychological stress not radiation from the Fukushima meltdown.
Dahr Jamail | Navy Introduces Toxins to Drinking Water, Then Expands Operations
Is Whidbey Island's health department colluding with the Navy to keep area groundwater contamination levels secret?
Dahr Jamail | It’s Raining in Antarctica While Trump Slashes Climate Science Funding
Parts of Antarctica are turning green due to ice melt as Trump and his cronies continue their assault on climate science.
Paris Accord Doesn’t Go Far Enough — but Trump’s Pullout Will Endanger Life on Earth
Trump's move displays a callous disregard for the future of life on Earth.
Dahr Jamail | Scientists Predict There Will Be No Glaciers in the Contiguous US by 2050 — but Trump Is Stomping on the Gas Pedal
Sea-level rise is now projected to be even higher than expected, and warming oceans are losing their oxygen much faster than previously believed.
Dahr Jamail | Coral Reefs Could All Die Off by 2050
The era of never-ending coral bleaching may have already arrived, many decades earlier than predicted just last year.
Dahr Jamail | Great Barrier Reef Reaches “Terminal Stage” as CO2 Levels Rise at Record Rate
For the second year in a row, atmospheric CO2, the primary driver of climate change, is rising at an unprecedented rate.
Dahr Jamail | As Trump’s Denialists Get to Work, the Climate Is Changing 170 Times Faster
Denial won't help us when the consequences of climate change hit — not gradually but with the force of a meteor strike.
Release of Arctic Methane “May Be Apocalyptic,” Study Warns
The impending release of methane hydrate across the Arctic is not a good sign for life on Earth.
Trump Cuts Regulations as Oceanic Dead Zones Release Massive Amounts of Methane
A new study has found the source of an enormous Pacific methane pool, uncovering disastrous news for the planet.