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Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush's strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush's claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, European Union, France, Japan, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Not-so-secret Agent		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Not-so-secret Agent Four decades after the U.S. started using Agent Orange in Vietnam, the two countries will begin working together to assess the effects of the toxic chemical on human health and the environment. Agent Orange is a defoliant that contains TCDD, the most dangerous form of dioxin, which causes cancer, immune system malfunction, and birth defects. The U.S. sprayed millions of gallo ...
Topics: Asia, health, toxics, United States, US Military, Vietnam (all these topics)

Area 51		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Area 51 Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, Canada, European Union, globalization, green living, Middle East, United States (all these topics)

Worse for the Tern		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Worse for the Tern Here's another possible casualty of the war on terrorism: migrating birds. An Indian ornithologist announced today that more than 200 species of birds that migrate from central Asia to India every year could be adversely affected by chemicals in the bombs exploding in Afghanistan. Such birds, including the Siberian crane, the shoveller duck, the crested poacher, and the Arctic te ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, India, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

See Ya Later ...		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
See Ya Later ... With fewer than 130 of them left in the wild, Chinese alligators may become the first crocodilian to become extinct in the wild, according to a study that will be published soon in the journal Biological Conservation. The alligators, native to lakes and wetlands in the lower Yangtze River Valley, have lost most of their habitat to fish ponds, rice paddies, and, increasingly, development. Not every single bit of hope ...
Topics: Asia, China, wildlife (all these topics)

Glow With the Flow		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Glow With the Flow Artificial lakes containing 50 years of radioactive waste could leak into the rivers of the Ural Mountains within a few years, according to a letter sent by the governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk region to Russia's prime minister last month. The area near the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant is known as one of the most radioactive places on the planet. Chelyabinsk's vice governor, Gennady ...
Topics: Asia, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Russia (all these topics)

Landslide Brought Them Down		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Landslide Brought Them Down Floods and landslides have rushed down the sides of mountains earlier this week on the Indonesian island of Nias, destroying villages and causing at least 60 deaths. Deforestation may have caused the floods. Indonesia's largest environmental group, Walhi, found in a study this year that flash floods have occurred exactly where deforestation was ...
Topics: Asia, deforestation, Indonesia, land degradation, logging, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

I've Been Working against the Railroad		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
I've Been Working against the Railroad Environmentalists in Hong Kong won an unprecedented victory this week when an appeals board rejected a plan by a government-owned railway to build a new line through Hong Kong's largest freshwater wetland. The case was the first heard by the Environmental Impact Assessment Appeal Board since an environmental impact law was enacted in 1998. The board sided with environmental ...
Topics: Asia, land stewardship, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

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