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Headline	Author	Published	Section
What Is It Good For? War ain't good for the planet, says new report		14 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:14 PM on 14 Dec 2007 It's the time of year for thinking about shopping peace on earth, and an aptly timed new report carries a reminder of the impact of war not just on people, but on the planet. Modern warfare tactics cause unprecedented damage to natural landscapes, says a new article from the Worldwatch Institute. Think spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam, Rwandan refugees stripping forest for shelter, and the im ...
Topics: habitat loss, insanity, Iraq, news, Rwanda, Vietnam (all these topics)

Everything New Is Endangered, Again Eleven new plant and animal species identified in Vietnam, face uncertain future		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:42 AM on 27 Sep 2007 Eleven new species of plants and animals have been identified in Vietnam in the Thua Thien Hue province. The species -- a snake, two butterflies, five orchids (three of them leafless), and three other plants -- are believed to be exclusive to the country, but unfortunately their futures already look bleak. "All these species are at risk from ...
Topics: endangered species, news, Vietnam (all these topics)

Now That's What We Call Hospitality Vietnam hospital waste turned into plastic utensils		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 5:06 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Recycling gone bad: Environmental officers in Vietnam have found that nearly 300 tonnes of medical waste from a Hanoi hospital was illegally processed into household plastic utensils, state media said Wednesday. A staff member at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital sold the used plastic items -- including IV transmission lines and syringes, some still contaminated with blood -- s ...
Topics: insanity, news, recycling, Vietnam (all these topics)

Ho Chi ... Man, I Gotta Pee Vermont rest stop combines advanced green toilets with Vietnam memorial		31 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Ho Chi ... Man, I Gotta Pee Vermont rest stop combines advanced green toilets with Vietnam memorial Like chocolate and peanut butter, it's a combination so natural you wonder why nobody thought of it earlier: Vermont has built a $6.3 million rest stop featuring an ecologically advanced flush-toilet system, a greenhouse, and ... the country's oldest Vietnam memorial. Located along Interstate 89, the "living machine" green-t ...
Topics: news, Vermont, Vietnam (all these topics)

Herbicidal Tendencies War-crimes suit against Agent Orange manufacturers dismissed		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Herbicidal Tendencies War-crimes suit against Agent Orange manufacturers dismissed A potentially historic class-action lawsuit accusing manufacturers of the herbicide Agent Orange of committing war crimes isn't looking so historic after all -- it was dismissed yesterday by a federal judge in New York City. Dioxin-containing Agent Orange was sprayed extensively in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 by U.S. f ...
Topics: environmental justice, news, politics, toxics, Vietnam (all these topics)

Sue It, Don't Spray It Landmark Agent Orange case goes to federal court		28 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Sue It, Don't Spray It Landmark Agent Orange case goes to federal court Did U.S. chemical companies commit war crimes by producing toxic dioxin-laced herbicide -- known as Agent Orange -- that the U.S. military used to douse more than 2 million Vietnamese and that still lingers on in their environment and food chain? That's the question at the heart of a landmark case that will be heard starting today in a U.S. feder ...
Topics: news, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer Smuggling of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals is on the rise, interfering with efforts to repair the Earth's protective ozone layer, the London-based Environment Investigation Agency said in a report released yesterday. As deadlines approach for phasing out CFCs, which are used in ...
Topics: air pollution, Cambodia, China, climate, Nepal, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

Threat Level: Orange Legacy of Agent Orange Continues to Haunt Vietnam		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Threat Level: Orange Legacy of Agent Orange Continues to Haunt Vietnam Decades after the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with millions of gallons of Agent Orange, fish and livestock in some parts of the nation are still highly contaminated with dioxin and other toxic chemicals contained in the defoliant. Dioxin levels in some people's bloodstreams are also high, according to a new study published in the Journal of Occupational and En ...
Topics: health, toxics, Vietnam (all these topics)

Sigh. Gone.		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sigh. Gone. Vietnam is home to one of the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems -- but the country's natural environment has deteriorated rapidly over the last decade, according to a report released today by the World Bank. The report, "Vietnam Environment Monitor 2002," found that of the nation's endemic species, 28 percent of mammals, 10 percent of birds, and 21 percent of reptiles and amphibians are ...
Topics: land degradation, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: ... France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (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)

Trunk Driving		15 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Trunk Driving A plan to save one of the last remaining wild herds of elephants in Vietnam got off to an inauspicious start earlier this week, with the deaths of two elephants. A team of elephant experts spotted the two on Monday and shot them with tranquilizer darts, hoping to sedate them for the long trip from their deforested home to a nature reserve near Cambodia. One of the elephants was captured and chained ...
Topics: Cambodia, deforestation, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Tusk, Tusk		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Tusk, Tusk Decades of war, poaching, and habitat destruction have decimated Vietnam's Asian elephant population, a trend the Vietnamese government is belatedly trying to reverse. Following a September agreement between Vietnam and Cambodia to cooperate on elephant conservation, a herd of elephants in Vietnam will be moved by truck from the southern coastal province of Binh Thuan to Dak Lak on the Cambodian border. There are onl ...
Topics: Cambodia, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Hanoi-ance		18 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Hanoi-ance There are nine times more endangered species of sea life in Vietnam than there were in 1989, according to statistics from the country's Ministry of Fisheries reported in the New Hanoi newspaper. The number of species at risk has grown from 15 to 135. In 1989, 35 percent of Vietnam's coral reefs were healthy; that figure has plummeted to between 5 and 7 percent. Overfishing and ocean pollution are tw ...
Topics: oceans, Vietnam, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

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