What are our alternatives for storing radioactive waste?: It seems like the good citizens of Nevada would sooner elect an orangutan as governor than let the federal government fill Yucca Mountain with radioactive waste. Can’t blame them, I guess, but that spent nuclear fuel has to go somewhere. What, then, are the alternatives to stashing it beneath Yucca Mountain? [Slate]
Climate Change Threatens Cradle of Civilization: The Middle East’s famous Fertile Crescent was the birthplace of agriculture, the first settlements and civilization. But a new study shows that climate change will dry up the area’s rivers and destroy its agriculture — with devasting effects for the region. [Spiegel]
A controversial fighter in the climate-change debate: Among those who’ve started to worry and maybe do something in their lives about global climate change, James Hansen is not exactly a household name. Not like, say, Al Gore. But as one of the leading scientific experts and public Jeremiahs on the subject, the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York has been in the thick of it for many years. [CSM]
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