The Gaia Reports

By Theodora Filis Alert: New studies show radioactive materials being carried across the Pacific from  Fukushima. — The West Coast needs to monitor pockets of high contamination — Certain areas may be affected in a significant way. Saturday, September 28, 2013, The Dong-A-Ilbo, Korea's top newspaper, reported: “Concerns over Japan’s radioactive contamination and its seafood is spreading to most countries in the Pacific basin. The United States has recently banned agricultural and fishery imports from 14 prefectures in Japan, up from eight. South Korea puts a similar ban on fishery imports from eight prefectures, while China and Taiwan does so for 10 and five prefectures, respectively. [... The IAEA's] upcoming probe needs to shed light on the cause and situation of soil and sea water contamination. [...] It would be much better if experts from South Korea, the United States and China participate in the investigation...” Due to the public health concerns associat...

By Theodora Filis Following the tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan in March, automobile manufacturers announced they would begin testing all new vehicles for the presence of radioactive material before leaving the plant. The national radiation limit in Japan for cars being exported for sale to other countries is 0.3 microsieverts an hour. Japanese car dealers who export used vehicles, to Russia and Southeast Asia, are now having their shipments refused because of high radiation levels. Customs authorities in Russia have turned away hundreds of vehicles from used car dealers in Japan, and are now joined by Chile and Australia – both received shipments of automobiles contaminated with low levels of radiation. As testing for radiation gets tougher, car dealers in Japan are left with two choices, destroy the vehicle as the government has required, or obtain new documentation and unload the automobile to an unsuspecting Japanese buyer. Japanese automakers are taking steps to...