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Environmentalism in 1666
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. [...]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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