Stunning up close video and pictures of Japan nuclear reactor damage
Up close video footage and pictures from a helicopter of the Japan nuclear reactor damage at the Fukushimi plant.
The day’s most popular stories
The five most popular stories on CNN.com in the past 24 hours, according to NewsPulse: Japan holds the line in nuclear plant crisis: Efforts to cool one of the reactors at a quake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant have been "somewhat effective" since authorities turned helicopters, fire trucks and police water cannon on the facility, its [...]
Spacecraft enters Mercury orbit, NASA says
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft on Thursday night became the first to achieve orbit around Mercury, the space agency announced. Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory confirmed MESSENGER achieved orbit at 9:10 p.m. ET, NASA said. Aboard the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft are seven science instruments, fortified against the intense [...]
Japan quake live blog: Death toll surpasses 6,000; 10,259 reported missing
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday, triggering tsunamis that caused widespread devastation and crippled a nuclear power plant. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on the quake's aftermath and check out our interactive explainer on Japan's damaged nuclear reactors. [10:43 p.m. ET Thursday, 11:43 a.m. Friday [...]
Top US Nuclear Official: Japan Radiation May Already Be Over US
America is put on nuclear radiation alert as the top US nuclear official warns radiation from Japan's nuclear fallout may already be over the US.
50 people in 50 days: Girl last seen working at store in 1990
Editor's note: Nancy Grace's new show on HLN, "Nancy Grace: America's Missing," is dedicated to finding 50 people in 50 days. As part of the effort, which relies heavily on audience participation, CNN.com's news blog This Just In will feature the stories of the missing. This is the 44th case, and it was shown Thursday [...]
Rights group faults U.S. for treatment of detained immigrants
Immigration enforcement in the United States is plagued by inhumane treatment of detainees, inadequate legal representation and the increasing use of detention as a necessity rather than an alternative, an international human rights group said in a report released Thursday. The 155-page report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is the most comprehensive review [...]
What a no-fly zone, other Libya measures would mean
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday evening voted to authorize a no-fly zone over Libya and to “take all necessary measures” - without using an occupation force - to protect civilians and population centers under the threat of attack in Libya. Diplomats warned that action was needed to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's rapid advances [...]
Cover-up in Canada: Radioactive Leak Into Lake Ontario
By Brandon Turbeville Activist Post March 17th, 2011 With all the focus placed on the Japanese radiation leak as well as the toxic plume of radioactive particles (possibly containing uranium and plutonium) heading for the United States, another potential disaster is receiving virtually no attention. Of course, attention should be paid to the Japanese situation. [...]
Cover-up in Canada: Radioactive Leak Into Lake Ontario
By Brandon Turbeville Activist Post March 17th, 2011 With all the focus placed on the Japanese radiation leak as well as the toxic plume of radioactive particles (possibly containing uranium and plutonium) heading for the United States, another potential disaster is receiving virtually no attention. Of course, attention should be paid to the Japanese situation. [...]
Gadhafi’s troops to help Benghazi residents evacuate, son says
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces will take up positions around Benghazi on Saturday or Sunday to assist people fleeing the city, said his son, Saadi Gadhafi. The younger Gadhafi said there will be no large-scale assault. Instead police and anti-terrorism units will be sent into the rebel stronghold to disarm the opposition. From CNN's Nic [...]
Gadhafi’s troops to help Benghazi residents evacuate, son says
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces will take up positions around Benghazi on Saturday or Sunday to assist people fleeing the city, said his son, Saadi Gadhafi. The younger Gadhafi said there will be no large-scale assault. Instead police and anti-terrorism units will be sent into the rebel stronghold to disarm the opposition. From CNN's Nic [...]
U.N. Security Council approves no-fly zone over Libya
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday voted to approve a no-fly zone extending over all of Libya to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's mounting attacks against rebel positions. The resolution states that "all necessary means" can be used to enforce the no-fly zone. Flights to provide humanitarian aid, medicine or for evacuations are [...]
U.N. Security Council approves no-fly zone over Libya
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday voted to approve a no-fly zone extending over all of Libya to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's mounting attacks against rebel positions. The resolution states that "all necessary means" can be used to enforce the no-fly zone. Flights to provide humanitarian aid, medicine or for evacuations are [...]
Taxi driver remains in Libyan jail after giving ride to CNN crew, source says
CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson gave an account last week of how forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi detained him and his crew, along with the taxi driver who had given them a ride. This is his update on the taxi driver: The day after government gunmen brutally detained us, we were told [...]
Taxi driver remains in Libyan jail after giving ride to CNN crew, source says
CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson gave an account last week of how forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi detained him and his crew, along with the taxi driver who had given them a ride. This is his update on the taxi driver: The day after government gunmen brutally detained us, we were told [...]
Obama hopes to see ancestor’s birthplace during visit to Ireland
President Barack Obama announced on Thursday – St. Patrick's Day – that he will stop in Ireland in May as a side trip from his state visit to the United Kingdom, and that he hopes to visit the birthplace there of his great-great-great-great-great grandfather. He made the announcement as he met with the Irish Prime [...]
House votes to bar federal funding for NPR
The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that would bar federal funding for National Public Radio. While the measure was expected to pass the GOP-controlled House, it is believed to have little chance of clearing the Democratic-controll...
Senate passes 3-week government funding extension
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill extending funding for the federal government through April 8. The legislation, which cleared the House on Tuesday, now advances to the president, who is expected to sign the measure. Enactment of the measure would aver...
Physicist: "What They Are Doing Is Basically Using Squirt Guns Against a Raging Forest Fire" … Japanese Should Use the Chernobyl Approach Instead
World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku (known for being a leading string theorist) told MSNBC that dropping water from helicopters is pointless, and advocates using the Chernobyl approach instead:[Kaku] What they are doing is basically using squirt guns...
Gadhafi: Benghazi residents ‘traitors’
In a telephone address televised on Libyan state TV, leader Moammar Gadhafi criticized residents of opposition-held Benghazi on Thursday, calling them "traitors" for seeking help from outsiders. Gadhafi said his forces will enter Benghazi to rid the city of those "traitors" and that his forces will search everyone for weapons. He added that his forces [...]
What’s being said about radiation danger to U.S. from Japanese nuclear plant
Some Americans are worried that radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan could cause harm on the U.S. West Coast, prompting a run on potassium iodide pills. But the scientific consensus is that the fear is unfounded. Greg Evans, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Toronto, said there is no danger [...]
Gotta Watch: Life after Chernobyl
The last time the world was threatened by nuclear disaster was in 1986. The world was brought to its knees when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. This brought to light the extreme dangers of modern science and caused scientists and lawmakers to re-evaluate the use of nuclear energy. '20th century science [...]
How bad is the nuclear threat in Japan?
Experts cannot agree on how dangerous Japan's nuclear crisis is. The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale ranks incidents from Level 1, which indicates very little danger to the general population, to Level 7, a "major accident" with a large release of radioactive material and widespread health and environmental effects. "It's clear we are at Level [...]
Thursday’s intriguing people
St. Patrick To Irish Catholics, St. Patrick's Day is not just a day for green beer and ridiculous hats. It's the feast day of their nation's patron saint. According to Catholic.org, Patrick was born to Roman parents in occupied Scotland in the year 387. He was kidnapped and taken to pagan Ireland as a slave [...]
Thursday’s intriguing people
St. Patrick To Irish Catholics, St. Patrick's Day is not just a day for green beer and ridiculous hats. It's the feast day of their nation's patron saint. According to Catholic.org, Patrick was born to Roman parents in occupied Scotland in the year 387. He was kidnapped and taken to pagan Ireland as a slave [...]
Thursday’s live video events
It's St. Patrick's Day, and everyone is feeling a little Irish today. CNN.com Live is there as we cover the Irish prime minister's trip to Washington. We're also your home for the latest news from Japan. Today's programming highlights... Ongoing coverage - Japan earthquake/tsunami aftermath 8:30 am ET - Irish PM meets with Biden – He's [...]
Lab records underwater sound of quake
The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, a unit of Spain's Polytechnic University of Catalonia, recorded the sound of the earthquake that hit Japan on Friday. The sound was recorded by a network of underwater observatories belonging to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, located astride the epicenter of the quake. Equipped with hydrophones for monitoring [...]
Lab records underwater sound of quake
The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, a unit of Spain's Polytechnic University of Catalonia, recorded the sound of the earthquake that hit Japan on Friday. The sound was recorded by a network of underwater observatories belonging to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, located astride the epicenter of the quake. Equipped with hydrophones for monitoring [...]
ALERT: US Surgeon General Warns “Be prepared for harmful radiation from Japan”
Almost immediately after learning that the UN has released an official forecast of the radioactive plume from Japan's nuclear reactor hitting the US west coast within the next 2 days I came across the article below on Before It's News. I first thought it must be some sensationlist article because all other stories about the forecast clearly state that the radiation forecast will be dilute and unharmful. So I checked the source and it's legit. Just pressed on the UK newspaper, the Daily Mail. This is scary stuff that is apparently being filtered from US mainstream media.
Official UN Forecast: ‘Diluted’ Radioactive Fallout Heading To US West Coast
The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer March 16th, 2011 U.S. radiation experts try to decipher reports from Japan – Japan not releasing radiation levels making it EXTREMELY HARD to gauge danger to U.S. west coast. An official United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese [...]
Japan quake live blog: Obama pledges U.S. support
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday, triggering tsunamis that caused widespread devastation and crippled a nuclear power plant. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on the quake's aftermath and check out our interactive explainer on Japan's damaged nuclear reactors. [2 a.m. ET Thursday, 3 p.m. Thursday in [...]
Radioactive Water Used To Cool Japan Nuclear Reactors Flowing Into Sea
With radioactive material from Japan's rogue nuclear plants into the wind journalists finally discuss the radioactive water flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
UN: Radiation to Hit U.S. By Friday
The New York Times notes:A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern C...
Official UN Forecast: Japan Radioactive Fallout Heading To US West Coast
Official UN radiation plume forecasts show nuclear radioactive fallout from Japan hitting the US west coast by March 18th. Feds have deployed radiation monitors to the west coast to monitor for radiation spikes. A link to the UN radioactive nuclear fallout map is below.
The day’s most popular stories
The five most popular stories on CNN.com in the past 24 hours, according to NewsPulse. Japan quake live blog: Follow the latest developments since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday, triggering tsunamis that caused widespread devastation and crippled a nuclear power plant. Helicopters dump water on Japan nuclear plant: Helicopters dumped water [...]
Japan quake live blog: ‘Extremely high’ radiation at Japan plant, U.S. agency says
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday, triggering tsunamis that caused widespread devastation and crippled a nuclear power plant. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on the quake's aftermath and check out our interactive explainer on Japan's damaged nuclear reactors. [11:55 p.m. ET Wednesday, 12:55 p.m. [...]
50 People in 50 days: Stacy Peterson’s disappearance remains a mystery
Editor's note: Nancy Grace's new show on HLN, "Nancy Grace: America's Missing," is dedicated to finding 50 people in 50 days. As part of the effort, which relies heavily on audience participation, CNN.com's news blog This Just In will feature the stories of the missing. This is the 43rd case, and it was shown Wednesday [...]
Japan Lying – US Trying To Decipher Nuclear Radiation Fallout Reports
A series of news articles reveals Japan is lying and giving deliberate misinformation about the radioactive nuclear fallout which has left US official scrambling to make sense of the nuclear fallout reports.
Glossary for Fukushima Daiichi crisis
Workers have been trying to resolve cooling problems at four reactors at northeastern Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, whose cooling systems are said to have been disabled by Friday’s tsunami. The crisis has raised serious concerns about radiation. Below is a short glossary of some terms often used in accounts of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis. [...]
New Russian law protects sleeping bears from being hunted in dens, group says
Hunters in Russia will no longer be allowed to rouse hibernating bears from their dens and shoot them under new legislation enacted Wednesday, according to an animal rights group. The winter den hunt left bear cubs orphaned, often resulting in their deaths, said the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which has been campaigning to end the practice [...]
Earthquakes, Earthworms and Earth Changes
Before Its News By Zen Gardner March 16th, 2011 Make this go viral on Before Its News! Is The Big One About To Hit California? The tsunami that struck Japan was the third in a series of events that now put California at risk. There were reports via a radio interview at rense.com that a [...]
Earthquakes, Earthworms and Earth Changes
Before Its News By Zen Gardner March 16th, 2011 Make this go viral on Before Its News! Is The Big One About To Hit California? The tsunami that struck Japan was the third in a series of events that now put California at risk. There were reports via a radio interview at rense.com that a [...]
Muhammad Ali asks Iran’s leader to show mercy on American hikers
Muhammad Ali made an impassioned plea as a "brother in Islam" to Iran's supreme leader for the release of two American hikers who have been held in the country since July 2009. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were detained along with friend Sarah Shourd on accusations of spying and trespassing after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked [...]
Officials Warn of New Chernobyl as Tokyo Abandoned And Radiation Hits Russia 500 Miles To The North
EU officials join US officials in warning that the Japan nuclear crisis has spiraled out of control. EU officials warn of a 'New Chernobyl' in Japan as Tokyo becomes a ghost town and nuclear radioactive fallout hits Russia 500 miles to the north.
Top US Officials: Japan Nuclear Reactor #4 Completely Breached, In Full Meltdown, Releasing Lethal Radiation – US Expands Evacuation Area To 50 Miles
US officials issue a 50 mile evacuation order around the Japan Fukushima Nuclear reactor on news that reactor #4 is in full meltdown and releasing lethal levels of radiation after the fueling pond has completely boiled off all water meant to cool the reactor.
Reporter’s family in Fukushima taking nuclear concerns in stride
Editor's note: CNN reporter Sandra Endo has relatives in Fukushima, Japan, one of the areas hit hardest by Friday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. Here, she writes of her relief on learning they're alive, and about her concerns about their proximity to a distressed nuclear power plant. First it was the quake, now the radiation. The [...]
Updated – Latest Status Of Japan Nuclear Plant Reactors And Radation Levels Around Japan
Here is a summary and details of the latest news on all of the nuclear reactors and a summary of radiation levels being detected around Japan.
Four N.Y. Times journalists missing in Libya
Four journalists for The New York Times are missing in Libya, the newspaper said Wednesday on its website. The Times said the missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the paper's Beirut bureau chief and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and rescued by British [...]
The Intel Hub To Monitor West Coast Radiation Readings
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas March 16, 2011 By this coming Monday March 21, 2011 The Intel Hub will be posting regular updated radiation readings (accumulative) from the west coast of the U.S. mainland. I have purchased a state of the art dosimeter and will me monitoring mR/hr exposure in Oregon. Radiation Readings You Can [...]
