World Watch articles from November 2001

World Watch archives from November 2001

Tragedy and Solidarity. (Editorial).(Christopher Flavin, WorldWatch Institute)(Brief Article)(Editorial)(Column)
November 1, 2001... As I sat down to begin writing this editorial on the morning of September 11, word of the day's events suddenly began to filter in via television and the Internet, radically changing the world we watch--and in which we all live and work. ...

Dangerous Reactions: the Aftermath of an Attack. (Note from a Worldwatcher).
November 1, 2001... Many people have said that the obliteration of the World Trade Center marks a turning point--a day after which the world will never be the same. But in the comments of political and military leaders during the hours when the rubble was still...

Atlantic salmon invade the Pacific. (Environmental Intelligence).(escaped farmed fish might endanger wild species)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Large numbers of Atlantic salmon have escaped from fish farms in Pacific waters and are now thriving in 77 rivers in British Columbia, according to a recent report by the Canadian Parliament's Senate Committee on Fisheries. In introducing the...

Monsanto drops its biotech potato. (Environmental Intelligence).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... In the spring of 2UUI, Monsanto--one of the world's largest biotech companies--surprised farmers, environmentalists, and consumers by dropping its Newleaf potato from U.S. and Canadian markets after fast-food giant McDonald's cut orders of the...

Occidental fails to find oil in Colombia. (Environmental Intelligence).(Occidental Petroleum)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In July 2001, Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum announced that it had failed to find oil at the Gibraltar 1 drilling site in the U'wa indigenous peoples' traditional lands in Colombia. This announcement comes as a major victory for the...

Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future. (New and Noteworthy).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2001). Have you ever wondered how a handful of industry-paid scientists have been so effective...

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples. (New and Noteworthy).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples by Tim Flannery (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001). The Eternal Frontier portrays in broad strokes thc development of North American flora and fauna over the...

Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta. (New and Noteworthy).
November 1, 2001... Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta, by Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2001). Journalist Ike Okonta and human rights lawyer Oronto Douglas--two of Niegeria's leading...

The Restoration of a Hotspot Begins. (Mata Atlantica: Endangered Biome).(Brazil's Atlantic Forest)
November 1, 2001... Brazil's Atlantic Forest is one of the richest biomes on Earth, and one of the most intensively developed. To save it, conservation will have to go on the offensive, and "re-develop" much of the landscape as forest. To stand in the small,...

Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back. (Mata Atlantica: Endangered Biome).
November 1, 2001... The forests of Bahia, in eastern Brazil, are among the most diverse in the world. But in their current state, they are too fragmented to survive over the long term. Chocolate could help restore them. I first encountered the witches' broom...

Matters of Scale.(brief stats)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... MATTERS OF SCALE Some Encouraging Trends Number of countries that had 0 abolished the death penalty by 1900 Number that had abolished it by 66 2000 Number of countries that had 0 ...

The Energy We Overlook. (Part Two of Two).(reducing greenhouse gas emissions)
November 1, 2001... With the United States letting 19 of every 20 units of energy it generates go to waste, no wonder we can't get carbon emissions under control, if that figure surprises you, read on. If governments focused their energy R&D on the technologies...

How smart is it to let kids play with lead?(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... How smart is it to let kids play with lead? In the United States, lead was once a main component of paint, but it was banned after health authorities found that children in old houses or apartments with peeling paint often put the paint chips...