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Japan to start building underground ice wall at Fukushima (Update)

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 02 June 2014 in Sustainable Development

Japan on Monday started work on an underground ice wall at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, freezing the soil under broken reactors to slow the build-up of radioactive water, officials said. The wall is intended to block groundwater from nearby hillsides that has been flowing under the plant a...

The Cost of More Water For California

Posted by rackfokus on Monday, 21 April 2014 in Water Conservation

The end of the rainy season is nearly here, and California faces a long, dry summer with a Sierra snowpack that is only 33% of normal. There is no significant precipitation in the forecast for California through April 25, but the state still has another shot at a decent round of heavy precipitation ...

Where is the oil going?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 07 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has steadily taken its toll on the waters of the gulf and surrounding coastlines. However, the prevailing currents will not allow the oil to be stationary. The Loop Current, which is a clockwise current in the Gulf that originates from Caribbean waters that flow ...