People in New Zealand do not need to worry about radiation poisoning should a quake-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan suffer catastrophic meltdowns, an expert says.

New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team in Japan are settled in the northern part of the country and about to start work helping to find survivors of Friday's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

A third explosion in four days has rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Today's blast at Dai-ichi Unit 2 follows two hydrogen explosions at the plant - at Unit 1 and Unit 3...

More than half a million people have been forced from their homes in quake and tsunami-hit northern Japan, petrol has run dry and supermarkets are empty in what its prime minister says is the worst crisis to hit Japan since WWII.

Japanese officials warned of a possible second explosion at a nuclear plant crippled by the earthquake and tsunami as they raced to stave off multiple reactor meltdowns, but they provided few details about whether they were making progress.

Three nuclear power plants in Japan have suffered failure, with a top Government official warning a meltdown at one of the plants was "highly possible". Over 10,000 people are thought to be missing as officials fight to avoid a catastrope

It is starting to feel like elements of Hiroshima, Kobe and the Asian tsunami combined.

Lord Hunt writes on the need to understand the Chinese policy on climate change.

Organs and bones were illegally harvested from the bodies of dead nuclear industry workers.

Germany has seen one of its largest anti-nuclear demonstrations in 30 years.

Iran's ambitions to become a nuclear superpower edged closer to realisation yesterday.

New Zealand is considering imposing further sanctions on Iran as part of an international bid to halt its nuclear programme.