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Contraceptive Pill is Polluting Environment: Vatican Newspaper
Jan. 3, 2009 VATICAN CITY (AFP) – The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday. A woman holds prescription contraceptives. The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday. The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report.. » read more
Chemtrail Ad in the Redding, California Paper
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EPA: Rivers High in Arsenic, Heavy Metals After Sludge Spill
Monday 29 December 2008 Kingston, Tennessee - The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste. The EPA has discovered raised levels of arsenic and heavy metals in rivers surrounding the site of Tennessee's coal sludge spill. (Photo: Tennessee Valley Authority) The agency said it found "several heavy metals" in the water in levels that are slightly above safe drinking-water standards but "below concentrations" known to be harmful to humans. "The one exception may be arsenic," the agency said in a letter to an affected community. "One sample of river water out of many taken indicated concentrations that are very high and further investigations are in progress.. » read more
"Empty Promise": The Broken Federal Commitment Behind the Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster
Friday 26 December 2008 When Earthjustice Attorney Lisa Evans testified earlier this year before a congressional committee about the looming threat from coal combustion waste, she warned that the federal government's broken pledge to regulate disposal of the potentially dangerous material threatened the health and safety of communities across the country. In Harriman, Tenn., flooding from fly ash sludge on Monday after a storage pond wall broke. (Photo: J. Miles Carey / Knoxville News Sentinel / AP) Speaking before a June 10 hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources titled "How Should the Federal Government Address the Health and Environmental Risks of Coal Combustion Waste?," Evans pointed out that the U.. » read more
FLOOD OF SLUDGE BREAKS TVA (Tennesee Valley Authority) DIKE
Dec. 23, 2008 HARRIMAN, Tenn. — Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA's Kingston coal-fired plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres, knocking one home off its foundation and putting environmentalists on edge about toxic chemicals that may be seeping into the ground and flowing downriver. J. MILES CARY / KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL The aftermath of a retention wall collapse is seen Monday in Harriman, Tenn.. » read more
Health Risks Stack Up for Students Near Industrial Plants
Monday 08 December 2008 Addyston, Ohio - The growl of air-monitoring equipment has replaced the chatter of children at Meredith Hitchens Elementary School in this Cincinnati suburb along the Ohio River. Children are often exposed to dangerous chemicals at home and in schools. (Photo: Garrett Hubbard / USA Today) School district officials pulled all students from Hitchens three years ago, after air samples outside the building showed high levels of chemicals coming from the plastics plant across the street. The levels were so dangerous that the Ohio EPA concluded the risk of getting cancer there was 50 times higher than what the state considers acceptable. The air outside 435 other schools - from Maine to California - appears to be even worse, and the threats to the health of students at those locations may be even greater.. » read more
Mile-Thick Cloud of Pollution is Choking the Planet
15 November 2008 A MASSIVE mile-thick brown pollution haze has settled over vast areas of the planet, changing weather patterns and threatening health and crops, according to the UN. Vast areas of Asia, the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, are affected by the smog-like plumes, caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and firewood, are known as "atmospheric brown clouds". When mixed with emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for warming the earth's atmosphere like a greenhouse, they are the newest threat to the global environment, according to a report commissioned by the UN Environment Programme. "All of this points to an even greater and urgent need to look at emissions across the planet," said Achim Steiner, head of the UNEP. Brown clouds are caused by an unhealthy mix of particles, ozone and other chemicals that come from cars, coal-fired power plants, burning fields and wood-burning stoves.. » read more
EXCLUSIVE Methane Time Bomb
Sept. 23, 2008 Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats. Underground stores of methane are important because scientists believe their sudden release has in the past been responsible for rapid increases in global temperatures, dramatic changes to the climate, and even the mass extinction of species. Scientists aboard a research ship that has sailed the entire length of Russia's northern coast have discovered intense concentrations of methane – sometimes at up to 100 times background levels – over several areas covering thousands of square miles of the Siberian continental shelf.. » read more
Special Interests - Re-power America ! (video)
Posted Oct. 13, 2008 Take a stand for solutions. Join us: http://www.wecansolveit.org The solution to our climate crisis seems simple.. » read more
Seas Turns To Acid As They Soak Up CO2
The Observer, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 The Bay of Naples is renowned for its breathtaking beauty and glittering clear waters. For centuries, tourists have flocked to the region to experience its glories. But beneath the waves, scientists have uncovered an alarming secret. They have found streams of gas bubbling up from the seabed around the island of Ischia.. » read more
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