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Radiation Surges in Japan as Police Search for Bodies
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO - A new glitch in the cooling of used fuel at Japan's crippled nuclear plant prompted a surge in radiation, but an overall decline in leaks allowed police Thursday to search for missing tsunami victims closer to the complex than ever before. Police in protective gear scoured a 6-mile radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi for the first time Thursday as part of their search for thousands of victims still missing after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. "We need to work very carefully so as not to rip our radiation suits with the debris, metal and chunks of concrete scattered everywhere ...
On Anniversary of Coal Mine Disaster, Families Still Waiting for Answers
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsAs a minister in Appalachian coal country, the Rev. Dennis Sparks knows more than he wants to about grief. He serves as executive director of the West Virginia Council of Churches and has consoled countless families of coal miners who've lost husbands, fathers and brothers in an industry that annually kills 30 to 40 miners and injures hundreds more every year. Sparks counseled families after the mine disaster in Sago, W.Va., claimed a dozen men in 2006, and he was there for the long wait when an explosion one year ago today at the Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners and seriously injured ...
Canine Heroes: US Dogs Search for Survivors in Japan Devastation
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Baxter, Pearl, Cadillac, Hunter, Riley and Joe -- these are four-legged members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department searching for survivors in the debris of quake-ravaged Japan. Whether it's an earthquake, flood, hurricane or bombing, the team travels the world looking for the living among tons of rubble. Along with their counterparts from the Fairfax County, Va., Urban Search and Rescue Team, the dogs and their handlers make up the only federally mandated search teams dispatched to international disasters to look for survivors. Fairfax County Government Urban ...
Obama: U.S. Is Ready to Assist Japan in Wake of Earthquake, Tsunami
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIn the aftermath of Japan's massive earthquake, President Obama said the United States is "ready to help the Japanese people in this time of great trial." The president later spoke with Prime Minister Naoto Kan and offered assistance. Update: An explosion severely damaged a nuclear power plant in northern Japan on Saturday, blowing the roof off one building and forcing an evacuation of the surrounding area because of a radiation leak. The blast rocked the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and smoke billowed up from a reactor, its containment vessel still protected by metal ...
Farmers Deposit Seeds in Arctic Doomsday Vault, Patrolled by Polar Bears
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsFarmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples of peas and 42 rare chickpeas in the vault, intending to protect the plant species from extinction by climatic or man-made events. John McConnico, AP Australian farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples ...
Death Toll Rises Above 500 in Brazil Mudslides
By not in system - AOL NewsTERESOPOLIS, Brazil - A new and ominous rain began falling again Friday in mountain towns where mudslides and flooding killed at least 509 people, hindering rescuers' efforts to reach survivors even as relatives hauled the dead down the hills to freshly dug graves. The known death toll rose overnight in three cities north of Rio, and officials feared that number could still rise, though they would not venture a guess of how many remain missing. Local reports put it in the hundreds. It's the worst natural disaster to hit Latin America's biggest nation since flooding and slides in 1967 killed ...
Emergency Broadcast System Coming to Cell Phones
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- The Emergency Broadcast System that interrupts TV programming in times of crisis is jumping to a new format where it might be able to reach you better -- on your cell phone. The communications company Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday that it's creating a Broadcast Message Center that will allow government agencies to send cell phone users specific information in the event of a local, state or national emergency. It will be similar to the TV alerts in that the text messages will be geographically targeted for areas where a tornado alert or major road closure, for example, is in ...
Criminal Investigation Opened Into Hungary's Toxic Sludge Disaster
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- Hungary's top investigative agency has taken over the inquiry into the toxic sludge disaster, The Associated Press reports. Police spokeswoman Monika Benyi said a criminal case has been opened to explore the possibility that the caustic flood was caused by an employee or company error. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the reservoir had been inspected two weeks ago, so authorities were caught off guard when the containment walls broke down. But on Tuesday, Orban said there were no indications that environmental effects caused the spill and suggested that human error had ...
Nagin and Brown Now Agree: US Not Prepared for Another Katrina
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans, the city's former mayor, Ray Nagin, and ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown finally agree on one thing: The country remains unprepared for another storm of such magnitude. "I don't see any major changes that we've done in this country," Nagin said on NBC's "Today" show today. "I agree with the mayor," added Brown. "I think the systemic failures that we have there have not truly been addressed." Americans are of the same mind. A new poll released by the Pew Research Center this week found that ...
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