A global warming-triggered collapse of the North Atlantic current “would have devastating and irreversible impacts” to the global climate, according to an open letter sent to Nordic policymakers by forty-four of the world’s leading climate scientists, with the more immediate effect of plunging northwestern Europe—especially Scandinavian countries—into an irreversible deepread more

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began releasing filtered wastewater from the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on August 24, 12 years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three of the plant’s reactors. Despite assurances from TEPCO and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the treated water being dischargedread more