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Peter Thomson
Soul-Searching Over Apple Exposé
The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson has been reading the news on Apple’s supply chain, and shares some thoughts on Apple, human rights, and us.
The Climate in 2012
Anchor Marco Werman talks to The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson about what some of the big environmental stories will likely be in 2012.
Global Forecast: Stormy Weather
The news about climate change comes rather like snowflakes in a blizzard—from all directions at once, and accumulating in such overwhelming amounts and impact that it can be hard to know where to start digging out [...]
Scientists Claim To Have Found Earliest Fossils
Scientists identify fossils of sulfur-eating bacteria that lived nearly three and a half billion years ago.
Japan Looks to Big Increase in Renewables
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson about Japan’s decision to re-evaluate its heavy reliance on nuclear power and put more emphasis on renewable energy and conservation. Download MP3
Radiation, Risk and the “Linear No-Threshold” Model
Earlier this month I posted about the longstanding debate over the ultimate death toll from the Chernobyl accident, and a new look at the data by a Union of Concerned Scientist physicist. Lisbeth Gronlund pored through scattered and hard-to-find data on the distribution of fallout from Chernobyl, crunched the numbers based on a statistical model of likely cancers at different exposure levels, and came up with an estimate of roughly 27,000 additional cancer deaths due to Chernobyl. This stands in stark contrast to a widely-quoted UN estimate of roughly 4,000, but also to estimates by Greenpeace and others of 90,000 or more cancer deaths [...]
Japan tightens evacuation zone
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The World’s Environment editor Peter Thomson speaks with anchor Lisa Mullins about the significance of the Japanese government’s expansion of the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Download MP3
Fukushima’s Collateral Damage
Six weeks after the crisis at the plant began, authorities are now threatening to arrest and fine anyone caught within the roughly 20-kilometer zone around the still-unstable nuclear reactors. The tougher stance is a stark reminder to local residents that while the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has become somewhat less critical in the last couple of weeks, it’s still volatile and dangerous. The disaster has also claimed its first victims here in the US – two new nuclear plants planned for Texas [...]
An update on Japan’s nuclear crisis
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Anchor Marco Werman talks to The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson about the latest developments in Japan’s nuclear crisis. Download MP3
Fukushima vs. Chernobyl–Comparison less useful than ever
Nowhere near Chernobyl. Except sort of. But really, much, much less bad. Or… maybe worse. If your head’s hurting right now trying to keep track of official evaluations of the scale of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, well, get in line for the aspirin. If not yet the iodine pills [...]
Fukushima likely not as bad as Chernobyl, but what does that mean?
For four weeks now, the world has watched with a surreal combination of horror and helplessness as the Japanese have struggled to regain control of their crippled nuclear reactors in Fukushima, staunch the flow of radioactivity, and evaluate the long-term impact of the disaster on human health, the environment, and communities near and far [...]
Ozone levels over the Arctic hit all-time low
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There’s an odd feeling of déjà vu these days here on the environment beat. First came the awful events in Japan with a nuclear disaster on a scale unseen since Chernobyl in the 1980s. Now comes news about atmospheric ozone that takes us back to the 80s as well [...]Japan’s contaminated groundwater
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Anchor Marco Werman gets the latest on Japan’s nuclear crisis from The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson. Extremely high levels of radiation were found today in groundwater under the plant. Download MP3
Update on Japan’s situation
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Anchor Marco Werman turns to The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson for an update in the evolving situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Download MP3
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