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Chernobyl: distorted reality, and unanswered questions

Blog entry by Iris Cheng | April 21, 2011

We have just returned after completing an important mission in Ukraine – taking around 70 journalists from 18 countries with us to Chernobyl, nearly 25 years after the nuclear catastrophe . It was one of the largest media trips...

Chernobyl: the unbearable lightness of human lives

Blog entry by Iris Cheng | April 29, 2011

On the Chernobyl media trip , a question that came up numerous times was "why don't you just move out of the area?" Dr Shulyak of Rokytne, who cares for the 53,000 living in the contaminated region, actually laughed. "Yes, some...

Increased radiation detected in Japan’s food and water

Blog entry by Jess Miller | March 24, 2011

For days we’ve heard conflicting reports about the safety of radiation levels in the food and water in Japan. Just a few days ago, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government stated that radiation levels had decreased in the city. However,...

Reviving the soil

Blog entry by Rahul Kumar. Picture: © Greenpeace / Yogesh Kumar | February 15, 2011

“It is a crime that is staring us in the face.” Anusha Rizvi, director of the film Peepli Live. Rizvi said these words at the launch of the Greenpeace report, Of Soils, Subsidies and Survival, in Delhi on February 3, 2011,...

Food for Thought

Video | April 8, 2011 at 19:08

25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, residents of the area are still exposed to the radiation. They depend on contaminated food and milk.

Fallout - 25 years after Chernobyl. Photoessay by Robert Knoth

Video | April 20, 2011 at 14:33

In remote villages of the Ukraine, contaminated food is part of daily life. There is no choice.

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