Japan: Mount Fuji: Mountain of Garbage
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Japan's majestic peak is also home to tons of discarded trash. FUJIKAWAGUCHI, Japan -- If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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1st Ld: As water rises in Three Gorges reservoir, so does garbage  Three Gorges Dam, Hubei Province, Sept.
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Nikon leads SLR market in Japan...gaming the Creative Commons...new geotagging tech...30-minute Olympus E-3 video...Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3...Microsoft Popfly video humor
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ZEPPELIN MOUNTAIN, Norway  - From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze.
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Researchers at a Department of Energy lab are developing fuel rods that could halve the amount of nuclear waste produced. That's good news for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where 40 years' worth of radioactive material is slated to be stored. By John Gartner.
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There are literally tons of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, from rocket parts to dead satellites to human waste dumped by space station crews. Then there's the stuff that spacewalking astronauts have simply lost out there.
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MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka -- As far as the eye can see in this northern coastal town, shards of brick, asbestos roofing, and glass from destroyed houses litter a once-pristine beach. Uprooted trees, strewn with shreds of clothing ripped off people's bodies as the water engulfed them, lie half-buried in the sand.
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Nuclear leaks after Japan's July 16 earthquake awaken insecurities
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ATHENS -- Since the Greek capital's only landfill reached saturation a month ago, Athens has been in the grip of a garbage crisis.
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It has been an annus horribilis for Sony. The Japanese electronics company has been hit with a string of embarrassments that have dented its reputation for quality.
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Mount Asama, one of Japan's largest and most active volcanoes, spewed gray smoke nearly a mile into the air Wednesday as it erupted for the second straight day.
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Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state spews ash and steam thousands of feet into the sky.
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 12--Landfill, solid waste management site, environmental park -- call it what you will. Just don't call it a dump.
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By Simon Read, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 9--A discarded washing machine lies on its side along a dirt tract near Tommy's Harbor. Garbage bags and other trash have been dumped in the nearby weeds.
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There's    troubling news (FT subscription reqd, alternate copy here)  coming from Japan, where the Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Emissions was born in 1997.  It seems that the Japanese aren't going to be able to meet their emissions targets specified in  the agreement in time.  Indeed, unless they buy a "large quantity" of emissions credits from other countries, they're not going to be able to meet their commitment at all.     Taishi Sugiyama, a climate expert at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, said emissions were rising 1 per cent a year due to a larger-than-expected impact from vehicles and households. That made it impossible to cut real domestic emissions by the required 16 per cent within a few years, he said.      Is this the last nail in the coffin for the Kyoto protocol?  And if so, which way do we go when it's buried?  Was GWB right to pull out, and where would John Kerry take us, in either case?
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Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.