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If This Doesn't Violate the Clean Water Act, What Would?
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| By Dan Shapley | The Daily Green | Jul. 2, 2008
Start with a pristine mountain lake in the Alaskan wilderness. Add toxic waste. Kill all the fish. Wipe the lake off the map. Bad for that lake, yes. But is it pollution? The seemingly obvious answer to that question (umm, yes?) is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court has agreed to hear this winter. Read
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Report: Climate change threatens security
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| Associated Press | Jun. 26, 200
Global warming may increase illegal immigration, terrorism. Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies. Read
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Dead Zones Grow in the Gulf of Mexico
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| By Kent Garber | US News | Jun. 6, 2008
Each spring, the cycle of death begins anew. Nitrogen and phosphorus, leached from fertilizer, pass from farmland into streams, from streams into rivers—the Mississippi, the Potomac, the Susquehanna—and then, finally, into some of the country's great bodies of water: the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay. Read
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Sheep flatulence inoculation developed
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| By Peter Allen in Paris | The Telegraph | June 6, 2008
New Zealand scientists claim to have developed a "flatulence inoculation" aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows. Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country's greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems. Read
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Arsenal cleanup suit settled
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| By Todd Hartman | The Rocky Mountain News | May 29, 2008
Shell Oil Co. and the Army have agreed to a settlement with Colorado worth $35 million to compensate for decades of environmental contamination linked to chemical weapons and pesticides manufacturing at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Read
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Weather warfare
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| By Michel Chossudovsky | theEcologistOnline.org | May 22, 2008
Beware the US military’s experiments with climatic warfare, says Michel Chossudovsky. Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the world’s weather can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated electromagnetic weapons. Both the US and Russia have developed capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use. Read
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