Environmental Graffiti

Yadnya Kasada: The Javanese Volcano Festival

Soaring nearly 8,000 feet high above the East Javanese horizon, Mount Bromo coughs up deadly pillars of toxic volcanic steam, sand and sulphur. But the locals don't run from this giant tourist draw. They climb towards it. This time of year, you see, is when they feed the volcano during the annual festival of Yadnya Kasada, which is observed by the Tenggerese people of Indonesia.

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The Real Price of Gold

A lot has been written about the environmental damage done by gold mining. A woman in Guinea searches for gold in a makeshift mining site Less familiar is the harm that it does to the miners themselves. The gold that shimmers and sparkles in the windows of jewellers’ shops [...]

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Kraft Macaroni n’ Anti-Intestinal Worm Cheese

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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