The Environment
Tuna
Now even tunafish sandwiches aren’t safe to eat.
Sabotage
So it turns out that the biggest act of (terrorist?) sabotage this century was committed by the CIA:
“In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after […]
Mercury
Mercury is bad for you:
Mercury is one of those unambiguous poisons. It’s a known nerve toxin and a cause of birth defects. Minnesota and 40 other states now have to warn anglers and their families against eating too much fish because of mercury concentrated in their fillets. Especially at risk of harm are women of […]
Climate
Some people continue to deny that human activity affects climate change (global warming), despite evidence to the contrary. But an ingenious new study makes the case for human impact on the climate even more convincing:
Piers M. de F. Forster and Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration analyzed temperature data collected from more […]
Water II
Just when you think that things couldn’t get worse in Central Asia and the Middle East, the NY Times reports:
Experts warn that Central Asia is heading toward a crisis as water mismanagement has already severely reduced the size of the Aral Sea, straddling Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, leaving a 154,450-square-mile toxic wasteland that […]
Water
Access to water is a fundamental human right. The Israelis are depriving the Palestinians of that right.
In spring 2003, CESR, in collaboration with local Palestinian NGOs, including the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network (PENGON) and the Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG), conducted a project to document violations of Palestinians’ human right to water. From the construction of […]
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