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  • In Greenland, chemical pollution and radioactive liquid are frozen in ice sheets, left over from a nuclear power plant on a US military research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles. Wired
  • In Greenland, chemical pollutants and radioactive liquid left over from a nuclear power plant at Camp Century, a U.S. military research base, were frozen in ice sheets that could melt in the coming decades. ABC News
  • The EU and Canada continue to cooperate on the Global Health Security Initiative to strengthen global public health preparedness and response to health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza and chemical, biological, or radio-nuclear threats). GAC
  • The UN has given highest priority to reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons, destroying chemical weapons, and strengthening the prohibition of biological weapons - all of which pose the direst threats to humankind. United Nations
  • National Ignition Facility could help with modelling the use of nuclear weapons to destroy chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. New Age | The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in B
  • Scientists hope to study everything from the chemistry of Venus's atmosphere to its lava flows - and find out whether or not the planet harbours phosphine (a molecule suspected to be present, which is normally associated with life). The Economist
  • The White House warned a nation still traumatized by 9/11 that Iraq was hatching terrorist plots involving chemicals, biological weapons, and nuclear suitcase bombs. Portside
  • The nuclear fuel Australia receives cannot be used in nuclear weapons without further chemical processing, requiring facilities that Australia does not have and will not seek. UK Government
  • Nuclear Posture Review, like the 2018 version, recognizes the threat posed by [North Korea's] nuclear, chemical, missile and conventional capabilities. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Global agreements can significantly reduce the risks of chemical, biological and nuclear hazards, as well as geoeconomic confrontation, interstate armed conflicts, critical changes to Earth systems, terrorist attacks and the concentration of strategic resources. Euronews.com
  • The global community has banned or controlled the use of other substances that threaten life on Earth: ozone depleting chemicals, pesticides, mercury and persistent organic pollutants. FOCUS
  • Concerns about the use of chemical pesticides (resistance development, risks to human and animal health and the negative effects on the environment and non-target organisms) have prompted governments around the world to develop policies that regulate their use and seek alternatives. Farmer's Weekly SA
  • All that water vapor will very likely also alter the atmospheric chemistry that destroys ozone, the oxygen molecule that protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. The New York Times
  • The best hope for finding life on another world is not listening for coded messages or traveling to distant stars, it's detecting the chemical signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres. Universe Today
  • Since every chemical compound absorbs and emits different, specific wavelengths of light, JWST's instruments could measure the wavelengths of starlight filtering through the planet's atmosphere to reveal its chemical makeup. Inverse
  • In Ukraine, the harm to the environment could be catastrophic with the risk of attacks on nuclear and chemical facilities, use of cluster munitions, and unexploded ordnance (e.g. mines). Nonviolent Peaceforce
  • In the nuclear realm, it once again noted that Russia's irresponsible nuclear rhetoric and its threat to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus were unacceptable, adding that any use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be met with severe consequences. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
  • The Mediterranean is facing a growing threat from ocean acidification - caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - which alters the chemical composition of seawater, making it less hospitable to many forms of marine life. The Public Source
  • The EWG findings of a chemical identified as probably carcinogenic by the World Health Organization come on the heels of a major study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that found a significant reduction in cancer risk for individuals who ate a lot of organic food. Environmental Working Group
  • Chemical compounds in a planet's atmosphere that could indicate life, called biosignatures, typically include gases found in abundance in Earth's atmosphere today. News
  • The probability that Russia will use chemical weapons in Ukraine can be reduced by a layered strategy consisting of increased monitoring by the U.N.'s Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons and by preemptive warnings from other nations that have ratified the chemical weapons convention. The Hill
  • The nuclear fuel received cannot be used in nuclear weapons without further chemical processing, which would require facilities that Australia does not have and will not seek. Defence Connect
  • The challenge of destroying the declared stockpile of Syrian chemical weapons proved that one of the best ways to address modern WMD threats can be simply to help an organization to rapidly use existing technologies in new ways. The Arms Control Association

Last updated: 25 March 2024



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