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Bad News: Pollution Reaching from Arabia to Japan
In this 2007 satellite image, a band of brown haze crosses over South Korea, center, then spreads out over the Sea of Japan toward Japan, center right. According to a U.N. report released Thursday, a thick brown cloud of soot, … Continue reading
Health of All Is Affected by Preventable Pollution
These children are developmentally impaired as a result of lead poisoning. Haina, Dominican Republic. Photo: Blacksmith Institute.Worst Forms of Pollution Killing MillionsBy Stephen Leahy / October 23, 2008 UXBRIDGE, Canada – Gold mining and recycling car batteries are two of … Continue reading
Ike: Oil Contamination in the Gulf, Too
At least 500,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Ike assaulted the U.S. Gulf Coast. The environmental damage is only now starting to emerge, weeks after the storm. Here, oil coats the waters off … Continue reading
Texas Beach Study Finds Increase In Fecal Contamination
Galveston beach: everyone in!‘Texans should not be swimming in human and animal waste’By Jay Root / July 29, 2008 AUSTIN — A day after state officials declared water quality on the rise at Texas beaches, an environmental group reported today … Continue reading
ENVIRONMENT : Russian Oil Development Threatens Belugas
A Beluga whale swims underwater in the Arctic region. What happens to the Beluga population reflects the effects global warming on the Arctic ecosystem, says Vsevolod Belkovich, a professor at the Russian Academy of Science who is leading a study … Continue reading
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Tagged Eco-Systems, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Oceans, Oil Companies, pollution, Whales
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ENVIRONMENT : The Island in the Wind
Once people on Samsø started thinking about energy, a local farmer explains, “it became a kind of sport.” Photo by Joachim Ladefoged.A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissionsby Elizabeth Kolbert Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Carbon Emissions, Denmark, Environment, Europe, Fossil Fuels, pollution
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Our President : ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’
Bush yuks it up with Prime Minister of Japan, Yasuo Fukuda, and Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G8 Summit in Tokyo. Photo by Reuters. George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, G8 Summit, George W. Bush, pollution, The World
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Carcinogens Found in Gulf Coast Trout, Catfish
Catfish, like this one caught Tuesday by Mark Arnett of Alvarado, are now on the state’s consumption warning list. Photo by Julio Cortez / Houston ChronicleTexas issues health warning on some Galveston Bay fishBy Allan Turner and Rosanna Ruiz / … Continue reading
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Tagged Cancer, Environment, EPA, Fishing, Oceans, pollution, Public Health, Texas
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SPORT : Sailing the Choked Waters
Chinese fishmen remove green algae from the sea on July 4, 2008 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. More than 1,000 boats and 5,000 fishmen have been mobilized to clean up green algae which has invaded the Olympic sailing venue. Photo by … Continue reading
Port Arthur Site Set to Burn Toxic PCBs
Life in Port Arthur, Texas is about to get worse. Photo by AP.EPA poised to let Mexican imports be destroyed in Texas townBy Matthew Tresaugue / June 13, 2008 PORT ARTHUR — The west end of this Gulf Coast refinery … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, pollution, Public Health, Texas
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