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Scientists offer compelling images of Gulf War illness. |
| Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that it is a legitimate illness. Now researchers have rolled out a host of brain images that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
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FDA says Basic Food Flavors knew plant was contaminated with salmonella. |
| The company at the heart of a growing recall of processed foods knew that its plant was contaminated with salmonella but continued to make a flavoring and sell it to food makers around the country, say FDA inspectors. |
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How fundraising helped shape Obama's green agenda. |
| Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process. |
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United Kingdom: Gardeners urged to stop using peat-based compost |
| Independent (UK): The star of the BBC's Gardeners' World has been drafted in by the Government as they try to persuade the public to stop using peat compost. Ministers hope that Diarmuid Gavin will help them convince gardeners to stop using peat, which is present in almost half of all compost sold by garden centres. Yesterday the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced a new target to phase out the use of peat compost in amateur gardens by 2020 but shied away from imposing a ban, provoking ...Independent (UK): The star of the BBC's Gardeners' World has been drafted in by the Government as they try to persuade the public to stop using peat compost. Ministers hope that Diarmuid Gavin will help them convince gardeners to stop using peat, which is present in almost half of all compost sold by garden centres. Yesterday the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced a new target to phase out the use of peat compost in amateur gardens by 2020 but shied away from imposing a ban, provoking ... |
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Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders |
| Inter Press Service: As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara's days are packed with chores. Yet while she used to be able to keep up with all she has to do in a day, this Sri Lankan mother now finds herself struggling to accomplish even the most basic tasks. Blame it on the weather, which has been causing water shortages that force Bandara to spend more and more time fetching water for her family, farther away from home. While the volume of annual ...Inter Press Service: As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara's days are packed with chores. Yet while she used to be able to keep up with all she has to do in a day, this Sri Lankan mother now finds herself struggling to accomplish even the most basic tasks. Blame it on the weather, which has been causing water shortages that force Bandara to spend more and more time fetching water for her family, farther away from home. While the volume of annual ... |
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World’s nature ‘becoming extinct at fastest rate on record’, conservationists warn |
| Telegraph: Despite hope that nature was fighting back, it appeared that the global wipeout of species was accelerating, they said. Speaking ahead of two next week on the state of British and European wildlife, Simon Stuart, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, admitted that the rate of extinction had not slowed. Previously research has shown that world was currently in the midst of a "sixth great extinction" of species, which was being driven by natural habitat ...Telegraph: Despite hope that nature was fighting back, it appeared that the global wipeout of species was accelerating, they said. Speaking ahead of two next week on the state of British and European wildlife, Simon Stuart, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, admitted that the rate of extinction had not slowed. Previously research has shown that world was currently in the midst of a "sixth great extinction" of species, which was being driven by natural habitat ... |
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Gowanus Canal goes Superfund |
Last week, the Gowanus Canal, a 1.8-mile, 100-foot wide waterway in northwest Brooklyn which empties into Upper New York Bay, was added to the National Priorities List (NPL) otherwise known Superfund by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new designation means that the EPA will now move ahead to clean up this derelict canal and to compel PRP's (principal responsible parties) to perform the cleanup or reimburse the government for EPA-led action. The EPA is now locked in to what may be a tough and perhaps a long dragged-out process of restoring the Gowanus, while forcing cooperation from PRP’s and catering to often sensitive local community interests. |
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Amazon Droughts and Greening |
The sensitivity of Amazon rain forests to dry season droughts is still poorly understood, with reports of enhanced tree mortality and forest fires on one hand, and excessive forest greening on the other. In a current story there is a report that previous conclusions of large scale greening of the Amazon as a result of drought are not reproducible. Approximately 11%-12% of these drought stricken forests display greening, while, 28%-20% show browning or no change, and for the rest, the data are not of sufficient quality to characterize any changes. These changes are also not unique; approximately similar changes are observed in non-drought years as well. |
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New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement |
It's the big pink elephant in the room that few others wish to acknowledge, but a central theme in a new report by former climate negotiator Nigel Purvis: An international climate change treaty isn't likely to be signed anytime soon.
Purvis served as president Clinton's chief UN climate negotiator, and in his report released today Purvis says that the United States and Europe should "accept reality" and take immediate practical steps to deal with global warming. |
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Rare Rhinos Relocated from Czech Republic to Kenya |
| This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launched an audacious bid to save one of the world's rarest animals: the northern white rhinoceros. Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two male and two female, were packed into wooden crates and sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will get down to the business of breeding. |
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Brazil Announces National Policy on Climate Change |
| Brazil's President introduced national legislation that will guide efforts to reduce projected emissions by 36.1 to 38.9 percent by 2020. This legislation comes on the heels of the COP-15 climate change conference held in Copenhagen earlier this month, and demonstrates Brazil’s eagerness to make significant and immediate progress against global climate change. |
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Rock stars of Jamaican geology |
| (Geological Society of America) This new memoir from the Geological Society of America presents seven essays detailing the colorful history of geological exploration in Jamaica through the work of notable researchers, or "rock stars," who uncovered the complicated geology of this Antillean island. |
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Sources of pollution in waterways |
| (American Society of Agronomy) A new study reviews the possible sources of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) pollution to the New York/New Jersey Harbor. |
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Tropical cyclone formation likely near Madagascar |
| (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Forecasters are watching a low pressure area located off the east coast of Madagascar that appears ripe for development in the Southern Indian Ocean. If it becomes a tropical storm, it would be named Hubert. |
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Virus Battery |
| The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu.
That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
Researchers at MIT developed the battery. It's so cool, that the president of MIT showed off the battery to President Obama.
It's powered by a common, harmless virus called a bacteriophage. The battery is non-toxic, isn't produced with harmful solvents, and has the same energy capacity as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being tested for plug-in hybrid cars.
MIT says manufacturing the battery would be an environmentally benign process.
Lead researcher Angela Belcher got the idea after she engineered viruses to coat themselves with metal, like tiny suits of armor, and form microscopic wires.
After that, her team developed viruses that first coat themselves with iron phosphate, then grab hold of atomic-sized carbon filaments. Combined they create an extremely conductive material that transfers energy as fast as any battery on the market.
The batteries can't be re-charged as many times as conventional batteries. Yet. But still, it's a promising advance in clean battery technology.
And arguably, it's the first virus to be formally introduced to a President.
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A Place for DDT |
| For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. After all, it disrupted ecosystems around the globe crashing bird populations and nearly eliminating our national symbol -- the bald eagle -- from wild places including California's Channel Islands.
Yet, like so many environmental issues, there is another side.
According to US AID, there are 1.2 million mosquito-related malaria deaths each year. And for countries struggling to manage diseases like malaria, DDT can be an inexpensive and efficient insecticide that, when combined with other mosquito eliminating measures, can save lives.
The World Health Organization recommends that in countries like Africa, where malaria is taking a great human toll, DDT should be applied to the inside walls of homes once a year. It not only kills mosquitoes when they come into contact with it, but they are also repelled.
This recommendation is a very different scenario than what happened in the 1940s. In those days, DDT was sprayed by crop dusters over thousands of acres and waterways. With proper training for users and careful application, residue in the environment could be minimized while saving human lives -- one household at a time.
Script by Pat Florez |
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Humboldt Invasion |
| You've heard about following your bliss. Well, here's a creature that's simply following dinner.
The Humboldt is a large squid sometimes called the "red devil" by fishermen in the Gulf of California because of its reddish skin and aggressive predatory behavior. Their diet includes lanternfish, and hake -- small fish that live in oxygen-depleted waters with hardly any sunlight.
Lately, there's been an invasion of Humboldt squid just off the California coast. Some suggest it's because there are fewer fin-fish like sharks to hunt them. But sperm whales, a key Humboldt predator, appear to have doubled their numbers in the last 15 years. So, then why are there more Humboldt squid?
Stanford biologist William Gilly says that since 1984, oxygen levels at all depths have dropped up to 20 percent. This could be in part due to both climate change and fertilizer run off. Since squid prey thrive in low-oxygen areas, more habitat has meant more prey fish, and presto! A boom in the Humbolt population.
There's no direct evidence yet, but scientists suspect the swelling squid population may eventually translate to fewer fish available for human consumption...
Hmm. Calamari anyone?
Script by Pat Florez |
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TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature |
| DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture
into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged
droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers,
who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
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FINANCE: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a "Dismal" Failure |
| WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) - An international initiative that seeks to reform
how governments profit from their natural resources should not
reduce its existing standards of membership solely because
candidate countries have been reluctant or incapable of meeting
them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. |
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RIGHTS: "Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change |
| UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS/TerraViva) - The negative fallout from climate change is having
a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from
higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household
and care burdens. |
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