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Post-Tsunami, 'We're Expecting 100 Sneakers With Bones In Them'

2012-05-24T10:33:44Z

PORT ANGELES, Wash. -- An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human remains as more de...

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Tsunami Debris Washes Up In Alaska

2012-05-23T16:21:46Z

Bottles, plastic foam and floating buoys are just a few of the scattershot items washing ashore in Alaska, part of a wave of debris surging toward U.S...

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David J. Olson: WHO Finds Social Media Indispensable in Managing Global Health Crises

2012-05-21T15:18:52Z

WHO's tweets and Facebook messages had paid off. The salt panic in China dissipated as quickly as it had started. WHO had learned of the problem through social media and had rectified it in the same way.

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William Bradley: Nuclear's Once Bright and Shiny Future Blinks Out

2012-05-12T15:43:21Z

Where, outside of Iran, will new nuclear power plants be contemplated? Wherever that may be, it looks to be increasingly few and far between.

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Japan's Carbon Emissions Efforts Eroded By Fukushima

2012-05-04T09:46:16Z

TOKYO (AP) — The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants...

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Japan Mulls Shift To Renewable Energy Following Nuclear Disaster

2012-05-03T08:37:36Z

TOKYO -- Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeez...

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Tsunami-Swept Harley Washes Up In Canada

2012-05-02T09:37:25Z

TOKYO — It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year's tsunami has washed up on a Canadian i...

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WATCH: American Couple Finds Football Lost In Japanese Tsunami

2012-04-23T08:14:29Z

TOKYO -- A teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a football that drifted all the wa...

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Soccer Ball Lost In Japan's Tsunami Found On Alaska Shores

2012-04-22T15:08:26Z

A soccer ball that was lost in the tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011 has travelled more than 3,100 miles across the Pacific Ocean to wash up...

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Obscure Chemical Shortage Threatens To Disrupt U.S. Auto Industry

2012-04-17T17:24:01Z

An explosion at a German auto supplier two weeks ago could prove to be disastrous for the global auto industry, as auto suppliers are now faced with s...

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Coast Guard Sinks Japanese Ghost Ship

2012-04-06T01:55:43Z

OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA -- A U.S. Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into a Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since last year's tsunami, s...

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US To Exorcise Ghost Ship With Explosives

2012-04-05T11:09:41Z

OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA — The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter unleashed cannon fire on the ab...

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Fukushima Radiation Tracked Across Pacific Ocean

2012-04-03T13:04:17Z

By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor:

Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean w...

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Another Massive Tsunami Could Hit Japan, Experts Warn

2012-04-01T08:58:16Z

TOKYO -- Much of Japan's Pacific coast could be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 meters (112 feet) high if a powerful earthquake hits offshore, acc...

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Japan Opens Parts Of Nuclear Zone

2012-03-30T12:47:02Z

TOKYO — Japan is letting up to 16,000 people back into their homes around its leaking nuclear power plant, easing restrictions in the no-go zone...

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Vikki N. Spruill: A Tsunami of Trash Reaches Our Shores Every Year

2012-03-28T16:38:31Z

You name it, and our volunteers have found it on the beach: toilet seats, washing machines, couches and, of course, the proverbial kitchen sink. This year someone even found a floating 100-pound safe. But no matter what that safe contained, I can tell you this trash is no treasure.

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Fatally High Radiation Levels

2012-03-28T06:39:04Z

TOKYO — One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool its fuel, according to an ...

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Owner: I Don't Want The Ghost Ship Back

2012-03-27T13:20:27Z

When there's somethin' strange... floatin' in the sea... who ya gonna call?

Not the ship's owner.

According to The Telegraph, the owner of the "...

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New Report Says Fukushima Reactor Worse Than Previously Thought

2012-03-27T08:51:22Z

TOKYO — One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an intern...

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'Ghost Ship' Off Canada Heralds Arrival Of Tsunami Debris

2012-03-27T11:42:00Z

(Mallos removes inaccurate references to California in quotes describing area of debris, paragaphs 17, 18) By Bill Rigby ...

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Tsunami Japanese Fishing Boat Found In Canada

2012-03-24T11:01:46Z

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- A large fishing vessel swept away by the tsunami that devastated Japan last year has been spotted adrift off British Co...

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Alex Gover: Japan -- One Year On

2012-03-16T14:19:16Z

The tsunami was a tragedy and there is much still to be done. But many see it as the catalyst for a renewed entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit that will ensure Japan maintains its place as the leading high tech country in the world.

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Strong Quake Shakes Northern Japan

2012-03-14T07:28:59Z

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press

TOKYO -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no appare...

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1 Year After Japan Earthquake, Cyndi Lauper Supports Survivors With Music, Donations

2012-03-12T08:26:57Z

TOKYO -- Cyndi Lauper is admired in Japan for not running away after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Now, the American singer is back...

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INFOGRAPHIC: Where Did Your Donation To Japan Go? (And How You Can Still Help)

2012-03-11T11:46:23Z

After a 9.0 earthquake -- and subsequent tsunami -- struck Japan one year ago today, the world showed its support for the costliest natural disaster e...

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