4th December 2014 By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Perhaps the most dangerous nuclear reactor in the U.S. is in partial shutdown following the discovery of a steam leak. South...
Category - Energy & Resources
Nuclear – the Radioactive Fly in the Sustainable Energy Ointment
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know...
Cannabis-Based Batteries Could Change the Way We Store Energy Forever
By Marco Torres Guest Writer for Wake Up World As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can...
Is Miami on the Brink of a Nuclear Disaster?
30th August 2014 By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World New reports indicate a Fukushima-style nuclear disaster may be inevitable in the Miami area, and need to be investigated...
Precious Metals vs. Precious Life: Destruction of the Amazon
29th August 2014 By Sergey Baranov Guest Writer for Wake Up World An overview of deforestation and pollution of the Amazon rainforest. When Avatar, a masterpiece written and produced by James...
Junking Down Our Food Supply – Genetic Scientist Discusses GMOs
By Dr. Thierry Vrain Guest Writer for Wake Up World It is high time to change the debate from the safety of engineering food to the pesticides that are inside the food. The technology is essentially...
The Dangers of Fracking and Why it Must Be Stopped
By Julian Websdale Guest Writer for Wake Up World Hydraulic fracturing is the fracturing of rock by a pressurized liquid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally – certain veins or dikes...
Nuclear Truth and Formality: Looking Beyond the Corporate Spin
25th July 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World Truth and Formality Perhaps Japan is the starkest example of a society that prefers to adhere to formality rather than...
Nuclear Experimentation – Year 69
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World On 16th July 1945, 69 years ago, the United States Army set off the Trinity detonation in New Mexico, the beginning...
Creating Water Out of Thin Air – Ingenious Billboard Helps Alleviate Drinking Water Shortages
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Using the power of technology to help ease water security issues, Peruvian ad agency Mayo DraftFCB and the University of Engineering and...
Fukushima: Behind the Skewed Data and Vested Interests
By Marie Be Guest writer for Wake Up World Only about 5% of the directly discharged radiation was deposited within a radius of 80 kms (50 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. The...
Researchers Link Birth Defects and Mothers’ Proximity To Natural Gas Development
By Marco Torres Guest Writer for Wake Up World More than 15 million Americans, are now estimated to live within one mile of a natural gas well drilled since 2000. Those numbers are increasing...
