Chernobyl

The US national security adviser Robert O’Brien on Sunday drew parallels between China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and the Soviet Union’s cover-up of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.  Key quotes (Source: NCB, Reuters) They unleashed a virus on the world that’s destroyed trillions of…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of environmental researchers at the Australian Rivers Institute–Coast & Estuaries, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, is suggesting in a Letters piece in the journal Science that the COVID-19 pandemic could represent a new opportunity for a more diverse future—they suggest that with…

Environmental scientists have called for the conservation of nature to be at the centre of the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.With countries still ensnared by the crisis, scientists have urged governments to make plans that "safeguard biodiversity and human health" as they rebuild.The researchers published an open letter in…

Jimmy Fallon, Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Tom Hanks, and Game of Thrones are among the winners of The 24th annual Webby Awards, newly-dubbed WFH: Webby From Home. Hosted by Patton Oswalt, the Webby Awards’ Internet ceremony is set for today at 3 PM ET at the Webby’s website. This year’s…

A year ago this week, Tyrion Lannister gave his now-famous speech, Bran became Bran the Broken and the king of Westeros, Jon Snow ventured north, and Game of Thrones came to an end. In honor of the conclusion of the last piece of monoculture, The Ringer will spend all week…

(Natural News) Since that fateful day in 1986, almost no humans have set foot within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. In the absence of humans, a diverse community of wildlife has since moved in and repopulated the area. Today, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, as the exclusion zone is officially…

Kobe Bryant's death, wildfires, World War III, Chernobyl 2.0, plague, murder hornets, and probably some other things we're forgetting. If you went back in time by six months to warn yourself about how horrible 2020 was going to be, would you believe any of it? Probably not. And now that…

Here's What You Need To Remember: Looking back a half century to an era of greater faith in nuclear energy, it's easy to shake one's head in wonder. What were they thinking? Surely crashes, combat and carelessness were going to keep it all from ending well. Ah, the Atomic Age, when…

Czech shoots, which have been robust in recent years as a steady stream of series decamps to Barrandov’s soundstages, were suspended over virus concerns this spring, but now the country has been reopened to shooting and the sector is expected to rebound, says the Czech Film Commission’s Pavlina Zipkova. The…

The Peabody Awards on Wednesday unveiled nominations repping the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. PBS tops the nominees list with 11 noms including several the Documentaries category via its POV series. Other nominees include HBO’s Emmy winners Succession and Chernobyl, Netflix’s Stranger…