Last updated: Saturday, March 25, 2011, 2:00 pm EST

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: NY Times, The Guardian, BBC, Huffington Post

Friday, March 25

Greenpeace: Greenpeace study ranks Fukushima as Chernobyl level 7 of 7 on severity scale, not level 5 as announced by the Japanese government.

Sunday, March 20

Ted Glick post on Grist: Global heating causes earthquakes.

Number of earthquakes worldwide in 1990: 16,590.  Number in 2008: 31,777... If one calculates the number of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 and higher between 1990 and 2010, there’s almost a 24% increase. (scroll down for a list of other pertinent sources in the linked resources near bottom of this compilation)

Amory Lovins post on Huffington Post (from March 18):
With nuclear power, "no acts of God can be permitted."

"None of the crises facing us all -- from the global banking system to global warming -- can be dealt with if a tiny number of super-rich corporations have a veto over every inch of progress." ~ Johann Hari, Journalist/Writer

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has overturned decades of legal precedent and given corporations (like big oil and coal) the right to spend as much as they'd like to influence elections, which will allow them an even greater dominance of the American (and global) political process than they already have.