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radioactive dome on Enewetak Atoll, Marahall Islands. Credit - Pen News/Brian Cowden
How workers who buried radioactive waste from 43 US nuclear explosions hid a MIDDLE FINGER salute statue inside radioactive dome on Pacific island as warning for future visitors
September 27, 2019

Former workers who entombed a radioactive waste site in the Pacific Ocean left a clear message before completing their work: a middle finger.

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Regional issues focus of big geoscience meet
July 13, 2018

Geoscientists from the Pacific Region are undergoing a week-long refresher course at the Holiday Inn in Suva... issues such as resources for Pacific communities, ocean geoscience, science of natural hazards, risks to pacific communities, land use and infrastructure development on Pacifi

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Job Opportunity - Environmental Economist - NIWA
March 13, 2017

NIWA is a dynamic research organisation whose purpose is to enhance the economic value and sustainable management of New Zealand's aquatic resources and environments, to provide understanding of climate and the atmosphere and increase resilience to weather and climate hazards to improve safety a

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