The Lifetime Study of Japanese A-bomb survivors is a monumental fraud which deliberately excludes controls for being 'too healthy', writes Chris Busby. Put them back in, and you find that low levels of radiation cause over 100 times more cancer than they are 'meant' to, creating a silent global massacre of the innocent. Under the Euratom treaty, the entire nuclear industry must now be 'rejustified'.
The 'Genetics' letter, the Euratom suicide clause, and the death of the nuclear industry Chris Busby | 15th December 2016 Activism Nuclear Health Regulation Science Energy WMD UK EU …
A new study suggests an alarming link between low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides - the most widely used insecticides in the world - and long-term brain damage. Tom Levitt reports
Pesticide used by UK farmers is linked to long-term brain damage Tom Levitt | 14th December 2012 News sheepbeingdipped.jpg Scientists have now shown a link between the use of sheep dipping chemicals …
Crippling costs of legal action prevents people mounting challenges over environmental damage, finds UN Committee
Activists win historic ruling on 'people's law on the environment' Tom Levitt | 26th August 2010 News Legal Activism Justice Law Society legalearth1.jpg The high costs of bringing a court case is …
Britain's long-suffering nuclear bomb test veterans have once again had justice denied to them, writes Chris Busby, by a shocking piece of judicial chicanery in London's High Court in which the judge whimsically excluded all the scientific evidence that did not suit the Ministry of Defence. But the veterans' fight for justice and scientific truth continues, facing its next test in the Court of Appeal.
Atom bomb test veterans: Soviet justice in London's High Court Chris Busby | 8th March 2017 Comment Nuclear WMD Health Law UK kiritimati-cut.jpg Britain's long-suffering nuclear bomb test veterans …
Cancer is just one of of the outcomes of the genetic damage inflicted by nuclear radiation, writes Chris Busby, and perhaps one of the least important. Of far greater long term significance is the broad-scale mutation of the human genome, and those of other species, and the resulting genomic instability that causes cascades of heritable mutations through the generations.
It's not just cancer! Radiation, genomic instability and heritable genetic damage Chris Busby | 17th March 2016 News Health Radiation Nuclear Science War Politics UK USA chernobyl-cut.jpg Cancer is …
A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
… for nuclear power in Britain, Alex Macbeth reviews Pandora's Promise, a new documentary …
Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action
How the legal system is preventing environmental justice Sarah Lewis-Hammond Tom Levitt | 4th February 2010 News Legal Justice Environment Law Politics And Economics legalearth1.jpg The UK is …
A scientific paper published this week shows that the severe health damage caused to UK bomb test veterans persists through the generations, writes Chris Busby. Their children and grandchildren are almost ten times more likely to suffer from congenital malformations than controls - and the only common cause is historic radiation exposure.
Bomb test veterans' grandchildren suffer health impacts Chris Busby | 16th October 2014 News Health Nuclear WMD op_hurricane-cut.jpg A scientific paper published this week shows that the severe …
Charities and NGOs complain high costs make it almost impossible for them to bring legal challenges against damaging environmental decisions - despite them being in the wider public interest
Defra rejects claims UK legal system is blocking environmental justice Tom Levitt | 22nd October 2010 News Legal Justice Aarhus Society brownbandedcarderbumblebeesamashfield.jpg The charity Buglife …
Britain's nuclear bomb test veterans suffered severe genetic damage from radiation, writes Chris Busby, and their case for compensation is being heard in the High Court today. Key to their case is evidence of similar damage inflicted on in utero babies exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl disaster, and how the dreadful health impacts of radiation cascade down to future generations.
Chernobyl, genetic damage, and the UK nuclear bomb tests - justice at last? Chris Busby | 6th May 2016 News Nuclear Energy WMD Health Law Science UK Ukraine Russia Belarus op_hurricane-cut.jpg …
Magnox has applied to dissolve spent nuclear fuel canisters and release the liquid into the sea near Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex, writes Chris Busby. This will wash radioactivity onto mudflats in a populated area already suffering from excess cancers, however the publicly available documents ignore this key fact. We must make sure this dangerous application is refused.
No to Bradwell's 'secret' radioactive discharges to the sea Chris Busby | 2nd December 2016 Activism Nuclear Pollution Regulation UK Health Law maldon-cut.jpg Magnox has applied to dissolve spent …
The link between nuclear power and cancer is real, writes Chris Busby, and revealed in the UK's cancer statistics - if only you look for it. Previous approaches have focused on rare cancers over large, poorly selected populations. But look at common cancers among those most exposed to nuclear radiation, and the statistical evidence is overwhelming.
Breast cancer and nuclear power - statistics reveal the link 'they' wanted to hide Chris Busby | 18th May 2015 News Health Nuclear Energy UK Science …
The BBC has been excelling itself in its deliberate understatement of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, writes Chris Busby. While calling in pseudo experts to say radiation is all but harmless, it's ignoring the science that shows that the real health impacts of nuclear fallout are around 1,000 times worse than claimed.
No matter what BBC says: Fukushima disaster is killing people Chris Busby | 14th March 2016 Comment Japan Nuclear Radiation Health Science fuku-water-sampling-cut.jpg The BBC has been excelling …
Low-input farming projects, not reliant on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, have brought significant increases in food production in Africa, south-east Asia and South America, according to a UN report
Agroecological farming 'can double food production in Africa over next 10 years' Tom Levitt | 8th March 2011 News Food And Farming Agroecology Africa Pesticides Chemicals Fertilisers malawi-crop.jpg …
Main ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is being linked to cancer, birth defects and Parkinson's disease and should be banned, according to campaigners behind new report
Greenpeace takes on Monsanto over 'pesticides arms race' Tom Levitt | 30th June 2011 News Monsanto Pesticides Chemicasl Food And Farming roundup.jpg Monsanto's Roundup is one of the most commonly …
Alexey V Yablokov (1933-2017) was a scientific giant of the post-Chernobyl age, writes Chris Busby. It was he who brought together the work of dissident Soviet scientists and revealed to the world, in English language, the true health impacts of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. His hard work and dedication underlies the continuing opposition to the nuclear industry today.
He dared to speak the truth: Alexey Yablokov, scientific hero of Chernobyl Chris Busby | 16th January 2017 Comment Nuclear Science Health Campaigning yab-busby-cut.jpg Alexey V Yablokov (1933-2017) …
Targets for increasing the use of biofuels to power cars, trains and buses will result in more ecosystems being converted to agriculture - actually increasing carbon emissions, says new report
Europe's push on biofuels 'no better than fossil fuels' Tom Levitt | 8th November 2010 News Biofuels Climate Palm Oil News Politics And Economics Food And Farming exhaustpipe.jpg Targets for …
The world has been the victim of a monstrous scientific error that has understated the dangers of radiation, writes Chris Busby. Following the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, investigators used 'controls' who had been exposed to high levels of 'black rain' fallout to understate the health impacts of radiation. This bogus science still underlies risk models today.
The ICRP's radiation risk model is bogus science Chris Busby | 22nd October 2014 Comment Nuclear WMD War Science Radiation Health hiroshima-bomb-cut.jpg The world has been the victim of a monstrous …
Government lawyers set to argue in High Court that EU rules allow them to delay meeting air pollution targets until as late as 2025 in London despite growing health crisis
UK uses EU 'loophole' to delay tackling air pollution in London Tom Levitt | 13th December 2011 News Air Pollution Health London Air Quality airpollution.jpg Government lawyers set to argue in High …
Major industrialised powers claim progress has been made towards a legally-binding agreement but campaigners warn new deal will be 'weak' and 'wholly inadaquate' in preventing climate change
Cancun climate summit fails to agree successor to Kyoto Protocol Tom Levitt | 12th December 2010 News Climate Change Cancun Greenhouse Gas Emissions globalwarmingworldmap.jpg Scientists have said any …
Campaigners fear 'backward' step in pesticide regulation in UK after testing body scrapped as Government also confirms major budget cuts to Natural England and the Environment Agency
Independent testing of pesticides in food in doubt after quango cull Tom Levitt | 14th October 2010 News Pesticides Food And Farming Natural World Environment DEFRA Natural England …
Government subsidies to replace oil or traditional electric heating with heat pumps ignore the global warming impact of their HFCs, argues new analysis
Heat pumps no more eco-friendly than gas-fired boilers - new research Tom Levitt | 8th October 2010 News Renewables Heat Pumps Energy Carbon HFCs heatpumps.jpg Government subsidies to replace oil or …
Broad welcome for new biodiversity targets, including increase in protected areas, but campaigners express concern that previous 2010 targets have still not been met
UN biodiversity targets now need to be implemented say campaigners Tom Levitt | 1st November 2010 News Biodiversity Natural World Geoengineering Wildlife biodiversityfrogs.jpg Broad welcome for new …
This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who have died of cancer took the UK government to the High Court for its failure to compensate them, writes Chris Busby. Also on trial was the 'official' radiation risk model, which understates the true health hazards of internal exposures by a factor of 1,000. But 17 weeks after the case, litigants and veterans are still awaiting judgment.
Nuclear bomb test veterans' long wait for justice: the last battle Chris Busby | 11th November 2016 News Science Law Nuclear Radiation Health UK high-court-cut.jpg This summer families of atom bomb …