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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from TCPalm (Florida):
Dolphin die-off in northern Indian River Lagoon is raising red flags
"Indian River dolphins are excellent sentinels of ecosystem health and, beyond that, human health," said Dr. Gregory Bossart... "We need to address the problems they have not just for their sake but out of concern for the health of the ecosystem and even our own health."... Since May 1, 47 dolphins have died in a stretch of the Indian River Lagoon from the southern end of the Mosquito Lagoon near Titusville south to Palm Bay, ...


That's one big canary.

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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from Mongabay:
Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla
Cameroon and Nigeria have agreed to protect the the Cross River gorilla, world's most endangered gorilla, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped broker the deal. The two West African nations will cooperate to protect the habitat of the critically endangered primate that occurs only in the two countries. Cameroon and Nigeria will crackdown on illegal logging and the bushmeat trade, strengthen field monitoring, increase community involvement and conservation education, and improve law enforcement within the parks. ...


Great. Now let's do the same with the second-rarest, and the third-rarest....

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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from London Independent:
Pollution can make you fat, study claims
Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.... The research, published in the current issue of the journal Acta Paediatrica, measured levels of hexachlorobenzene (HCB), a pesticide, in the umbilical cords of 403 children born on the Spanish island of Menorca, from before birth. It found that those with the highest levels were twice as likely to be obese when they reached the age of six and a half. ...


Hexachlorobenzene... I'd like some of that melted and spread on my french fries, please!

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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from United Nations University, via EurekAlert:
Experts meet on need for new rules to govern world's fragile polar regions
Problems forecast for the Arctic as its ice recedes include: Overfishing; Pollution from ships and offshore extraction of oil and gas; Oil spills; and Invasion of alien species carried by ships' ballast water. "Overfishing, the result in part of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, is already occurring in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas," says conference presenter Dr. Tatiana Saksina of the World Wildlife Fund's International Arctic Programme. "Agreements are needed now to regulate shared and straddling fish stocks and to protect fish migrating to higher latitudes in search of colder waters," she says. ...


Thinking ahead, instead of reacting after the fact? What are we doing, evolving?

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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from EcoWorldly:
Biofuels War: The New Scramble for Africa by Western Big Money Profiteers
African civil society is calling for a moratorium on new biofuels investments in Africa amid concern that that the biofuels revolution will bring more food insecurity, higher food prices and hunger to the continent. In Tanzania, thousands of farmers growing cereals like corn and rice are already being evicted from fertile land with good access to water, for biofuel sugar cane and jatropha plantations on newly privatized land. According to the anti-biofuels investment campaigners, whole villages are being cleared or grabbed, but families have been given minimal compensation or opportunities for their loss of land, community and way of life. ...


Here in the West, we call that development.

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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from California Progress Report:
Californians Don't Need a Daily Serving of Toxic Perfluorinated Chemicals
You may find PFCs in anything that's made to repel grease, such as pizza, popcorn and French fry containers. A carcinogen, they now show up in more than 98 percent of Americans' blood, and in 100 percent of 293 newborns tested by scientists in a recent study. Worst of all, these compounds never break down -- they'll stay in our soil, our water and our bodies indefinitely. ...


"Indefinitely" is
a very very long time.

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Sun, Sep 7, 2008
from Baltimore Sun:
Bighorn sheep may lose habitat
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on the final details of a map that would cut by nearly half the habitat previously considered critical to the species' survival. The plan could be approved by the end of this month. Scientists and environmental advocates say the downsized habitat could deal a permanent setback to a species that has had 10 years of federal protection. They accuse the Department of the Interior, which governs Fish and Wildlife, of mixing politics with science, caving in to mining and tribal interests. One mining operation already has applied to expand its operation into land once listed as critical to the sheep's recovery, documents show. ...


They're ramming this through.

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Sat, Sep 6, 2008
from Toronto Globe and Mail:
Oil refineries underestimate release of emissions, study says
A study by the Alberta Research Council that investigated the plume of contaminants emanating from a Canadian oil refinery using high-tech sniffing equipment found the facility dramatically underestimated its releases of dangerous air pollutants... Based on the study, funded by the federal, Alberta and Ontario governments, it is likely that all refineries in Canada and the United States are seriously undercounting emissions because they follow an estimating protocol developed by the Washington-based American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under the protocol, refineries don't calculate their actual emissions, but try to reach approximate figures using technical assumptions and mathematical equations. ...


You've heard of "fuzzy math"? Well, this is "Cheney math"!

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Sat, Sep 6, 2008
from Washington Post (US):
Risking Armageddon for Cold, Hard Cash
India and the United States, along with deep-pocketed corporations, have been steadily pushing along a lucrative and dangerous new nuclear pact, the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement.... The pact will gut global efforts to contain the spread of nuclear materials and encourage other countries to flout the NPT that India is now being rewarded for failing to sign. The U.S.-India deal will divert billions of dollars away from India's real development needs in sustainable agriculture, education, health care, housing, sanitation and roads. It will also distract India from developing clean energy sources, such as wind and solar power, and from reducing emissions from its many coal plants. Instead, the pact will focus the nation's efforts on an energy source that will, under the rosiest of projections, contribute a mere 8 percent of India's total energy needs -- and won't even do that until 2030. ...


Making glowing hay while the sun shines.

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Sat, Sep 6, 2008
from Bernama (Malaysia):
New Glue Ruling For Table Tennis
[A] player fainted while trying to glue her bat, apparently because of the toxic substance present in the gum. And so, world controlling body International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has decided that beginning with the 2008 Volkswagen Women's World Cup, currently underway at the Cheras Badminton Stadium, volatile organic component-based glue -- glue containing toxic composite -- would be banned. Only water-based glue would be allowed. ...


Finally!

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Sat, Sep 6, 2008
from Kansas City Star:
An end run around expert advice
The proposed change would put the fox in charge of the chicken coop. Federal agencies that want to build dams or roads or pursue any other project could decide on their own whether they would harm a protected species. The bureaucrats -- not the scientists -- would be in charge. Federal agencies would be far more likely to to protect their own projects than to protect threatened wildlife. Currently agencies must consult biologists and other scientific experts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service before they are allowed to proceed on proposed projects that could adversely affect species. ...


Expertise is just a theory.

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from University of Cincinnati, via EurekAlert:
Bisphenol A linked to metabolic syndrome in human tissue
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) implicates the primary chemical used to produce hard plastics -- bisphenol A (BPA) -- as a risk factor for metabolic syndrome and its consequences. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of risk factors that include lower responsiveness to insulin and higher blood levels of sugar and lipids. According to the American Heart Association, about 25 percent of Americans have metabolic syndrome. Left untreated, the disorder can lead to life-threatening health problems such as coronary artery disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. ...


That's why we put BPA in baby bottles:
to harden the babies up to further exposure.

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from University of Michigan:
Recovery efforts not enough for critically endangered Asian vulture
Captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered vulture, whose numbers in the wild have dwindled from tens of millions to a few thousand, are too small to protect the species from extinction, a University of Michigan analysis shows. Adding wild birds to the captive colonies, located in Pakistan and India, is crucial, but political and logistical barriers are hampering efforts, says lead author Jeff A. Johnson. ...


Genetic diversity is necessary?
But what about all those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? They came from just one mosquito!

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from Denver Garden Examiner:
Garden in any season -- even without a greenhouse
Though you can grow many things indoors without light, sprouts and mushrooms are some of the tastiest things that come to mind when indoor winter gardening is mentioned. Both are very easy – even for beginner gardeners. Sprouts are nothing more than germinated seeds. If you can germinate seeds, you can grow sprouts! Sprouts are typically grown in one of three mediums: potting soil (or soil from your garden), gravel or sand, or air. ...


Every little sprout helps.

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from Reuters via PlanetArk:
Gull Sets Arctic Pollution Record for Birds
A small Arctic gull has set a record as the bird most contaminated by two banned industrial pollutants, scientists said on Thursday. Eggs of the ivory gull, which has a population of about 14,000 from Siberia to Canada, were found to have the highest known concentrations of PCBs, long used in products such as paints or plastics, and the pesticide DDT. ...


Add the worldwide demand for ivory and this bird is dead meat!

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from USA Today:
GM plans to dump use of landfills
In an attempt to green up the planet, and its image, General Motors will confirm today plans to make half of its 181 plants worldwide "landfill-free" by the end of 2010. That means nothing from their manufacturing processes would end up in a landfill. Ten GM plants, including an engine plant in Flint, Mich., already are landfill-free, and GM will have about 80 more producing little or no waste within 20 months... ...


We would advise you, however, to not open the trunk!

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from Austin American-Statesman:
As climate changes, will patterns of disease shift as well?
This summer, an outbreak of typhus has left 16 Travis County residents with the flea-borne illness; 14 others are suspected of having the disease. In recent years, whooping cough and West Nile virus have also plagued Central Texas. Are the outbreaks stand-alone events, each with its own explanation? Or, with hot summers bearing down on the state, are these signals of broader changes in disease patterns driven by a warming climate? ...


One thing's for sure, bugs seem to like global warming!

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Fri, Sep 5, 2008
from Washington Post:
Emissions Standards Tightened
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday tightened emissions standards for new gasoline-powered lawn mowers, weed trimmers and boat engines, reducing the amount of smog-causing pollution these motors will be allowed to emit. ...


Get your mitts offa my weed whacker!

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Thu, Sep 4, 2008
from Mother Jones:
Climate of Meddling
From Exxon-lobbyist memos to White House-deleted notes on the health impact of global warming, seven key dates in the Bush administration's eight-year scuffle with a green planet. ...


You mean Nero/Bush wasn't just fiddling while the planet burned?

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Thu, Sep 4, 2008
from Detroit News:
Stung by mysterious die-offs, Michigan beekeepers worry about impact
As beekeepers harvest honey this month, they face an uncertain future that could bring higher food prices as bees mysteriously continue to vanish from hives... Experts calculate a quarter of the estimated 2.4 million colonies across the U.S. have been lost in the last two years to colony collapse disorder. The reason -- or reasons -- remains unknown. The use of pesticides, a fungus, parasitic mites and even stress and the bees' diet are all theories. ...


Wasn't there a time when bees' overuse of cellphones was proposed as a cause?

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Thu, Sep 4, 2008
from Associated Press:
Environmentalists can't corral Palin
..."John McCain was all about global warming and the integrity of the science. The selection of Sarah Palin is a complete reversal from that position," said Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., who traveled to the South Pole with McCain in 2006 to visit with scientists studying climate change. "She is disturbingly part of the pattern of the Bush administration in their approach to science generally and the science of the environment in particular." The McCain campaign Wednesday characterized Palin as a leader on climate change, noting she set up a sub-cabinet office to map out state response strategies and sought $1.1 million in federal funds to help communities threatened by coastal erosion and other effects. ...


$1.1 million dollars? Why that's enough to buy an envelope to pretend to push!

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from World Wildlife Fund via ScienceDaily:
Baltic States Failing To Protect Most Damaged Sea
Nine Baltic sea states all scored failing grades in an annual WWF evaluation of their performance in protecting and restoring the world’s most damaged sea... The best grade (an F for just 46 per cent) was received by Germany, followed by Denmark (41 per cent) and the worst were Poland (25 per cent) and Russia (26 per cent). ...


Couldn't they have graded on a curve?

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from NaturalNews.com:
Citrus Crops in U.S Under Siege From Unknown Bacterium
Citrus greening is blazing through the Florida citrus groves like wildfire. Scientists don't know how long it will take to find a treatment or cure for this contagious bacterial disease. One scenario projects that within nine to ten years, all the citrus trees currently in the ground will be dead. Citrus greening, caused by a bacterium yet unnamed, is one of the most serious citrus diseases in the world, destroying the economic value of the fruit while compromising the tree. The disease has significantly reduced citrus output in Asia, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Brazil. Now trees grown in the U.S. are in jeopardy. ...


Is this "bacterium yet unnamed" ... Lord Voldemort!?

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from London Daily Telegraph:
English honey harvest halved after catastrophic drop in bee numbers
The annual English honey harvest has dropped to half of its normal level this year, with the appalling summer weather compounding the effects of the sudden and unexplained collapse in the number of bees. Keepers, farmers and industry have held their first crisis talks over fears that the British honey bee population could be facing near extinction within five years. There are now fears that English honey could disappear altogether unless the dramatic decline in bee colonies is arrested. ...


If it was money instead of honey that was so threatened, you better believe there'd be a solution!

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from London Guardian:
Coal plans go up in smoke
One day, historians might speculate that it was the ambition of the companies that sought to profit by building coal-fired power stations that triggered the beginning of the end for humans' most polluting habit. Four years ago, campaigners in the US raised concerns over plans to build 150 coal-fired power stations nationwide. Today, nearly half those plans have been defeated in the courts or abandoned, while half of the remaining proposals are being actively opposed. Just 14 of the 150 plants are being developed, and environmental lawyers are all still pursuing them. ...


And here we thought there were no successes in the U.S. environmental movement!

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from Associated Press:
19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada
"A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday." ...


We ... are falling to pieces.

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from AFP:
Ivory Coast's toxic waste trial to start September 29
The trial of 12 people charged with involvement in the 2006 toxic waste pollution scandal in the Ivory Coast is set to go ahead on September 29, according to court documents released Tuesday. The 12 are charged with "poisoning or complicity to poison" in the illicit dumping of 500 tonnes of caustic soda and petroleum residues across more than a dozen open-air rubbish tips around the commercial capital Abidjan. The toxic sludge, brought into Ivory Coast by Dutch-based multinational trading company Trafigura, killed 16 people and caused an estimated 95,000 people to seek medical attention. ...


Not in my backyard.
In theirs -- they're poorer.

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Population decline causing inbreeding among spotted owls, study says
Declines in populations of the endangered northern spotted owl are leading to inbreeding and a resulting lack of genetic diversity needed for survival, making the birds more prone to disease and other problems, a report by an Oregon State University scientist concludes. The problem, a "population bottleneck," likely will make recovery even harder, said Susan Haig, a wildlife ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center at OSU. "Previous recovery plans were reporting the birds were doing OK. They're not," Haig said. She conducted the largest genetic study ever on endangered birds by taking blood samples from owls throughout the West. ...


My mother is a fish.
-- Vardaman

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Wed, Sep 3, 2008
from PC Magazine:
Ebay launches WorldOfGood.com
The site's mission: to preserve "People Positive and Eco Positive" principles that make a positive impact on the people that make them, as well as the environment. In essence, it's similar to The Body Shop: buy ecologically sound products, while allowing the seller to charge a fair price. All products, producers and sellers are verified by various third parties called Trust Providers -- like TransFair USA (Fair Trade Certified), Co-op America and Aid to Artisans -- to meet a core set of ethical and environmental standards, according to the site. Some example items: an artisan-crafted plate from Chile, banana-fiber animal napkin rings from Kenya, and a stuffed llama from Peru. ...


Can our acquisitiveness be used for good, rather than evil?

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Tue, Sep 2, 2008
from Public Campaign Action Fund:
Oil, Coal Industries Already Have Spent $427 Million On Politics, Policy, and Marketing in 2008
Today Public Campaign Action Fund, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving America’s campaign finance laws, released a new analysis finding that the oil and coal industries spent $427.2 million so far this year of the year to shift public opinion and to capture the eyes, ears, and support of Congress on critical energy issues.... "With spending like this, it’s clear that these polluting industries see much at stake in Congress," continued Nyhart. ...


You mean this isn't the voice of the people?

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Tue, Sep 2, 2008
from American Institute of Biological Sciences via ScienceDaily:
Thawing Permafrost Likely To Boost Global Warming, New Assessment Concludes
"A new assessment more than doubles previous estimates of the amount of carbon stored in permafrost ... The thawing of permafrost in northern latitudes, which greatly increases microbial decomposition of carbon compounds in soil, will dominate other effects of warming in the region and could become a major force promoting the release of carbon dioxide and thus further warming ..." ...


It turns out permafrost ain't so perma, after all.

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Tue, Sep 2, 2008
from BBC:
Climate 'hockey stick' is revived
"A new study by climate scientists behind the controversial 1998 "hockey stick" graph suggests their earlier analysis was broadly correct. Michael Mann's team analysed data for the last 2,000 years, and concluded that Northern Hemisphere temperatures now are "anomalously warm". ...


Guess that makes us the pucks.

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Tue, Sep 2, 2008
from Sudbury Start (Canada):
Canadians more willing to ride the bus, but transit systems are letting them down
A survey commissioned by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Canadian Urban Transit Association found that consumers want to take public transit, but lack of buses and trains plus long waiting times are acting as a deterrent. More than 40 per cent of those questioned said they would seriously consider taking local transit if gas prices continue to rise. The responses suggest that transit ridership could triple as a result of higher gas prices, a joint news release from the FCM and CUTA said. ...


Let's get on the bus!

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Tue, Sep 2, 2008
from FoodConsumer.org:
Plastic chemical may raise risk of heart attack, diabetes
A new study suggests that bisphenol A could be more harmful than thought. It has found that the chemical at the level found commonly found in humans' blood can suppress a hormone that protects people from heart attacks and type 2 disease. The study appeared online in Environmental Health Perspectives August 14, a day before the Food and Drug Administration claimed that bisphenol A is safe at current exposure levels. ...


FDA to US:
"Until all the facts are in, drink up."

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Tue, Sep 2, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
Global warming: Sea level rises may accelerate due to melting ice sheet
The vast Greenland ice sheet could begin to melt more rapidly than expected towards the end of the century, accelerating the rise in sea levels as a result of global warming, scientists warned yesterday. Water running off the ice sheet could triple the current rate of sea level rise to around 9mm a year, leading to a global rise of almost 1 metre per century, the researchers found.... There are signs that the Greenland ice sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometres of land, has already begun to melt faster than expected. The reason is thought to be surface water on the ice sheet trickling down through fissures to the underlying bedrock, making the ice sheet less stable, and the loss of buttressing ice shelves along the coastline. ...


Uh-oh. "Faster than expected" has, thus far, preceded "holy shit" by only a year or two.

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Mon, Sep 1, 2008
from National Post (Canada):
B.C. anglers catch a 70-year-old fish, 3.2 metres long, then release it
Rod Toth was on the river near Chilliwack, B.C., Aug. 27 when he hooked the massive sturgeon. For nearly three hours the five men wrestled to bring the sturgeon to the surface, taking turns cranking the reel, slowly hauling the fish through the murky water. "We didn't see it until the very end," Mr. Toth said. And when Mr. Toth's four clients finally laid eyes on the sturgeon, well, some language is best left on the river, the guide said.... On shore they tagged the fish, held onto its rough skin for the mother of all fish photos and released the sturgeon. ...


Thank you, Mr. Toth, for doing the right thing!

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Mon, Sep 1, 2008
from Edinburgh Scotsman:
Temperature rises 'will be double the safe limit' for global warming
"IT IS "improbable" global warming will be kept below 4C -- double the rise considered safe to avoid climate catastrophe -- according to an influential new report. Internationally, it has long been agreed governments should be aiming to keep a global temperature rise below 2C, to avoid climate change spiralling out of control. However, a bleak new study by scientists at the Tyndall Centre, a leading organisation for climate change research at the University of Manchester, now suggests we should be adjusting our expectations towards far higher rises." ...


"Double the safe limit" will mean quadruple the trouble!

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Mon, Sep 1, 2008
from Environmental Health Perspectives:
Dengue Reborn: Widespread Resurgence of a Resilient Vector
"Dengue -- a viral disease that can refer to both dengue fever and the more severe dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) -- swept away records again this past spring as it raged across Brazil, infecting more than 160,000 people and killing more than 100. The reports were similar to those out of Southeast Asia in the summer of 2007, South America the previous spring, and India the fall before that. Although it may not be the most devastating of the mosquito-borne diseases -- malaria strikes 10 times more people and yellow fever kills more of its victims -- dengue has become a major public health concern for two reasons: the speed with which it is spreading and the escalating seriousness of its complications." ...


Mosquitoes... messengers from the Darkside.

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Mon, Sep 1, 2008
from CNN International:
Lights out? Experts fear fireflies are dwindling
Yet another much-loved species imperiled by humankind? The evidence is entirely anecdotal, but there are anecdotes galore. From backyards in Tennessee to riverbanks in Southeast Asia, researchers said they have seen fireflies -- also called glowworms or lightning bugs -- dwindling in number.... "It is quite clear they are declining," said Stefan Ineichen, a researcher who studies fireflies in Switzerland and runs a Web site to gather information on firefly sightings. ...


At least, in the coal mine, we'll have a wee bit of light to see the other canaries.

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Mon, Sep 1, 2008
from Gant Daily (PA):
Deep-well Natural Gas Drilling a Concern for State's Water Quality
Scientists have known for years the gas was there, but it wasn't until new drilling technology was developed that it could be extracted. This method uses hydraulic pressure to fracture the shale layer so trapped gas can escape. "Fracking, as they call it, can require several million gallons of water for each gas well, and some wells may be fracked more than once during their active life, which might span more than a decade," Swistock explained.... In other states, fracking water has been found to contain numerous hazardous and toxic substances, including formaldehyde, benzene and chromates. ...


We're fracking ourselves up. Again!

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