http://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/523 2012-02-11T16:55:30-08:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpg © Inter Press Servicehttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/23/124982012-01-23T02:32:00-08:00

<p>Yumi Goto, 60, lives with her husband in a temporary shelter on a windy hill that overlooks vast stretches of tsunami-devastated seacoast where her home was once located.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/18/124642012-01-18T10:46:00-08:00

<p>Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11, last year.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/01/123462012-01-01T02:15:00-08:00

<p>Hideo Sato, 47, and his family escaped to this snowy city 200 km from the radiation emitting Fuksuhima power plant that was struck by a massive earthquake-driven tsunami on Mar. 11.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/12/23/123022011-12-23T20:46:00-08:00

<p>Seven years after monster waves crashed into homes, hotels and vehicles on Sri Lanka’s coast, people in this island nation continue to be haunted by demons from the sea.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/12/21/122822011-12-21T19:44:00-08:00

<p>Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/11/16/118952011-11-16T13:01:00-08:00

<p>No guns are needed in this battle. Only the muscle of Thai soldiers defending a sprawling industrial estate on the eastern end of this city from an advancing enemy - flood waters. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/11/10/118232011-11-10T06:42:00-08:00

<p>Seven months after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, Japanese citizens and relief organisations are working to learn from the tragedy in order to mitigate the fatal impact of future natural calamities at home and abroad.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/11/06/117832011-11-06T12:31:00-08:00

<p>Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/11/03/117532011-11-03T04:14:00-07:00

<p>This sinking mega-city’s eight million people are paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/10/25/116572011-10-25T23:30:00-07:00

<p>As the Thai Airways flight descends into Suvarnabhumi International Airport, passengers pull out cameras to snap pictures of flood waters rising inexorably and predicted to inundate the capital city by the end of the week. </p>