The Pacific Ocean will be no more 'pacific' ? :-(

XPRIZE Scientific funding foundation launches new prizes for research into acidification, climate change, garbage and other issues

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/22/xprize-science-research-into-ocean-health-global-warming?CMP=twt_fd

Tuesday 22 October 2013 05.00 BST

Commercial fishermen and other mariners form the words 'acid ocean' in Alaska in a 2009 protest against fossil fuel acidification Photograph: Lou Dematteis/REUTERS

Suzanne Goldenberg US environment correspondent

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Japan premier urges full decommissioning of Fukushima nuclear site

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in orange hard hat, is briefed during a tour of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. (Japan Pool / AFP/Getty Images / September 19, 201

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-japan-nuclear-fukushima-20130919,0,2520396.story#axzz2iQG4vQ28