It’s about the only sunny part of the Download festival weekend in Leicestershire, England, and we’re sitting in the media garden. Suddenly there’s a hurried and excited scramble as Babymetal walk through the gate. Instantly recognizable, the elusive trio ...
14 Jul 2016 - Mark Wheeler
Allowing plants to restart would ignore lessons from Fukushima, expert Hiromitsu Ino says More than four years after the Fukushima disaster, no nuclear power plants have operated in Japan. At least that was the case until August 2015, when the Sendai nucl ...
27 Aug 2015 - Rie Matsuoka
A childhood in Hawaii and adulthood in Oregon bookend a decade in Hiroshima. Ed Kawasaki is a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bomb. Ed Kawasaki, born and raised in Hawaii, was visiting Hiroshima in 1945 when the U.S. military exploded the atomic bomb ...
31 Jul 2015 - Leonora Ko
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven other countries negotiating what is the largest trade d ...
15 Feb 2014 - Nathan Gilles
On Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. PST, the global population was 7.12 billion people, and our population keeps growing. Every four-and-a-half days, one million more children are born. UN officials predict that by 2100, there may be 10.9 billion of us. That would be wo ...
14 Jan 2014 - Rosette Royale