Not Chernobyl or China Syndrome

SUBHEAD: What the Japanese, and the world, face is a long and protracted struggle to minimize the health risks posed by escaping radioactive materials from Fukushima.By Juan Wilson on 15 March 2011 for Island Breath - Image above: The Fukushima nuclear power station after multiple hydrogen gas explosions. Note Reactor buildings #1 and #3 destroyed with smoke being emitted from #4. The wind blows

Climate Change Is Priority #1

SUBHEAD: The carbon in our atmosphere threatens global food production and may render the Earth uninhabitable.By Bill McKibben on 16 February 2011 in The Nation -(http://www.thenation.com/video/158009/bill-mckibben-why-climate-change-most-urgent-challenge-we-face)Image above: Detail of painting "Mother Earth" by Jeness Cortez Perlmutter. From (http://www.americanmeditation.org/mother_earth.htm).

Lava rises in Big Island crater

SUBHEAD: HVO geologist estimates the lava lake had risen over 260 feet, since November.[Editor's note: In the last few years volcanic activity on the Big Island has increased vog (volcanic smog) frequency and volume. Vog includes sulfuric acid mixed with dust. As a result many people sensitive to vog have suffered sinus, throat and bronchial problems as far away as here on Kauai. This is not be