USA Today: Forecast for solar power: Sunny

Wired: "Two small Russian submarines completed a risky voyage deep below the North Pole Thursday, planting their country's flag in a titanium capsule on the Arctic Ocean floor to symbolically claim what could be vast energy reserves beneath the seabed."

Japanese Quake Led To Nuclear Leak: small amounts of radioactive materials (cobalt 60, iodine and chromium 51) had leaked into the atmosphere, and radioactive water is already known to have leaked from a nuclear reactor into the sea.