DoomsdaysCW<p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USA</span></a> Buried <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> Abroad. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> Could Unearth It</p><p>A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from US <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nuclear</span></a> projects in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenland</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarshallIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarshallIslands</span></a></p><p>by Anita Hofschneider<br />Science<br />Mar 2, 2024 8:00 AM</p><p>"Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: 'Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.’</p><p>"Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfather’s. At the time, he was living on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the US conducted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CastleBravo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CastleBravo</span></a>, the largest of 67 nuclear weapon tests there during the Cold War. The tests displaced and sickened <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> people, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>poisoned</span></a> fish, upended <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TraditionalFood</span></a> practices, and caused <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cancers</span></a> and other negative health repercussions that continue to reverberate today.</p><p>"A federal report by the Government Accountability Office published last month examines what’s left of that nuclear contamination, not only in the Pacific but also in Greenland and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spain</span></a>. The authors conclude that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> could disturb nuclear waste left in Greenland and the Marshall Islands. '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RisingSeaLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RisingSeaLevels</span></a> could spread contamination in RMI, and conflicting risk assessments cause residents to distrust radiological information from the US Department of Energy,' the report says.</p><p>"In Greenland, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChemicalPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChemicalPollution</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radioactive</span></a> liquid are frozen in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IceSheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IceSheets</span></a>, left over from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a> on a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USMilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USMilitary</span></a> research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles. The report didn’t specify how or where nuclear contamination could migrate in the Pacific or Greenland, or what if any health risks that might pose to people living nearby. However, the authors did note that in Greenland, frozen waste could be exposed by 2100.</p><p>"'The possibility to influence the environment is there, which could further affect the food chain and further affect the people living in the area as well,' said Hjalmar Dahl, president of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InuitCircumpolarCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InuitCircumpolarCouncil</span></a> Greenland. The country is about 90 percent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inuit</span></a>. “I think it is important that the Greenland and US governments have to communicate on this worrying issue and prepare what to do about it.'"</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-buried-nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it-marshall-islands-greenland/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/the-us-buried-</span><span class="invisible">nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it-marshall-islands-greenland/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genocide</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inuit</span></a> group calls for bigger role in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a></p><p>The Inuit Circumpolar Council is seeking to bring the effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arctic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CimateChange</span></a> on their communities to the attention of participants of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COP28</span></a> conference in Dubai</p><p>Alaska Beacon, via Indian Country Today<br />Dec 8, 2023</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InuitCircumpolarCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InuitCircumpolarCouncil</span></a> includes representatives in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alaska</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenland</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a>. It is one of the six international <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> organizations that have decision-making power at the eight-nation <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcticCouncil</span></a>. The Inuit Circumpolar Council has a COP 28 delegation, to include Alaska members.</p><p>"One key issue highlighted in the position paper is the Loss and Damage Fund that was created at last year’s COP 27 held in Egypt. As it is structured now, the fund is focused on helping poorer nations in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a> address the impacts of climate change.</p><p>"That leaves a big gap, said Inuit Circumpolar Chair <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaraOlsvig" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaraOlsvig</span></a> of Greenland.</p><p>"'This means that as it is structured now, Inuit and other Arctic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> will not have access to the fund, although we are among those most impacted by climate change,' Olsvig said by email. Given the rapid rate of Arctic warming and associated effects, 'the inclusion of Inuit in any policy and decision-making is of great importance,' she said."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://ictnews.org/news/inuit-group-calls-for-bigger-role-in-climate-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ictnews.org/news/inuit-group-c</span><span class="invisible">alls-for-bigger-role-in-climate-action</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Yupik" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yupik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chukchi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chukchi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chukotka" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chukotka</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kalaallit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kalaallit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inughuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inughuit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/I%C3%B1upiat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iñupiat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tunumiit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tunumiit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nunatsiavut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nunatsiavut</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nunavik" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nunavik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inuvialuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inuvialuit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticIndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcticIndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcticWarming</span></a></p>
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