Monitoring mission gets go-ahead as scientists dispute N-test risks

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France has decided to allow experts to determine whether its nuclear weapons tests in the extinct volcano Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific might cause damage. While Roger Clark, nuclear explosion seismologist, feels that the atoll is in danger of collapsing, other experts disagree. The studies conducted on test site have not shown any radioactive leakage or danger to the atoll but the researchers were not allowed absolute freedom in taking samples. Scientists of Greenpeace claim to have found caesium-134, a radioactive product, in zooplankton near the atoll.

France, Testing, Environmental aspects, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear testing

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ESO objects to police 'harassment' in the course of telescope dispute

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A Chilean judge, Javier Jimenez, accompanied by police entered into the local offices of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the town of Cerro Paranal, Chile. This is seen as a bizarre turn of events in the ongoing land ownership dispute over the site of the construction of the world's largest optical telescope at the top of a mountain. The land was given to the ESO in 1987 by the Chilean government but Chilean courts stopped work on the site when a Chilean family, the Latorres, claimed ancestral ownership of the land.

Laws, regulations and rules, Chile, Telescope, Telescopes, Location, European Southern Observatory

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Temperature rises in dispute over costing climate change

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A United Nations report on the economic and social aspects of climate change has provoked strong criticism from a prominent British policy adviser, Sir Crispin Tickell. Tickell's criticism relates to the use of cost-benefit analysis as a basis for policy on climate change damage. Tickell questions the propriety of the assignment of a value on life which discriminates between developing and developed countries.

Evaluation, Economic aspects, Reports, United Nations, Cost benefit analysis, Climatic changes, Climate change, Environmental policy

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