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China Denies it Manipulated Air Pollution Results for the Olympics
In the run-up to the 2008 Olympics Beijing’s environment has been under intense scrutiny. Beijing’s Olympic countdown clock. Image by Steve Cadman So it’s understandable that at least a few people were suspicious when, after the Wall Street Journal alleged the government was manipulating the results, January and February [...]
Continue reading...Pollution is Damaging Your Junk
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
In today’s world, the environment can be an extremely divisive issue. There are constant political battles between those who believe in global warming effects and those who deny global warming is happening. Industry clashes with activist groups over everything from animal testing to pollution.
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1778
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India, the Roman Empire, and the Japanese Edo period. A painting of the 1778 Bishnoi massacre Today we’re going to India in 1778 to cover a forest, a desert, and a tribe of environmentalists [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1666
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India and the Roman Empire. Today we revisit Japan’s Edo period in the mid-1600s, a time of turmoil that resulted in an amazingly complex environmental policy that still influences our ideas on conservation [...]
Continue reading...Global Warming Effects Could Kill 10,000 in the UK by 2012
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A report released by the British government warned the country’s National Health System to expect thousands more deaths and complications from heatwaves, malaria, and contaminated water as global warming effects progress in the next five years. Heat shimmer image by Mila Zinkova The report, “Health Effects of Climate Change [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 100 A.D.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
We’ve bounced from medieval England to ancient India in our series on environmental ideas throughout history. Image by Frank Zweers Today we travel back to one of mankind’s greatest civilizations, the Roman Empire.
Continue reading...Kraft Macaroni n’ Anti-Intestinal Worm Cheese
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Kraft Foods is teaming up with pesticide maker TyraTech to create a food that will also kill intestinal worms. Kraft has not said what type of food is being created, but that it will aim to sell the food in rural areas of Asia, Africa, and South America. [...]
Continue reading...Blind Baby Tiger Saved by Human Eye Surgeon
Monday, February 4, 2008
One of China’s top optical surgeons has used the skills honed on hundreds of human patients to save the eyesight of one of the world’s rarest baby animals. A tiger at the Beijing zoo. Image by Shizhao Liu Fei, an eye surgeon with Nanchang University, operated on a one [...]
Continue reading...Mormon Family Records Show British Couple to Blame for Colon Cancer Risk
Friday, January 4, 2008
Researchers using the detailed genealogical records of a large Mormon family in Utah and New York have discovered the culprits behind thousands of US citizens’ high genetic risk of colon cancer. An English couple brought high colon cancer rates to thousands of future Americans in the 1630s. Who is [...]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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