International – Page 177

Today in eco-history: Chernobyl disaster announced to public

April 28, 2014 By Blake Skylar

On this day in 1986, continuing high levels of radiation emerging from the Chernobyl disaster led Soviet authorities to publically announce the accident.

Today in eco-history: Andropov writes to U.S. 5th grader to ease nuclear fears

April 25, 2014 By Special to People’s World

While not seen as an environmental issue at the time, nuclear weapons pose the single biggest threat to the Earth's environment, scientists warned in 2006.

TPP trade talks draw foes on both sides of Pacific

April 24, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Twitter carried pictures of protesting Asian workers and news reports said the Obama-Abe bargaining in Japan would probably not result in approval of the trade pact.

As crisis builds, Ukrainians face May 25 election

April 21, 2014 By Greg Rose And Emile Schepers

This election is largely a contest of powerful business tycoons who made their fortunes out of the breakup of the old Soviet Union and the privatization of state enterprises that followed.

Gabo lives

April 21, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Novelist Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. His 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" gained him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.