Earth Island Journal articles from June 2002

Earth Island Journal archives from June 2002

The business of water. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... Your article in Spring 2002 by Maude Barlow ["Water Inc."] could not be more timely. A company named WortdWaterSA has applied to the state of California for permission to take 20,000-acre-feet from the Gualala River for export to San Diego and...

Before Enron/Anderson. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... I would Like to remind Earth Island Institute that before the recent Enron/Andersen disclosures, it was Earth Island Journal that broke the story on conflicts of interest in the US accounting industry that compromised the financial corporate...

Save our heritage trees. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... More than 97 percent of our country's unique ancient forest ecosystems have been destroyed. Most people are shocked to [earn that it is still legal to cut down a 1,000-year-old tree. Unless we act immediately, we will Lose the last remaining...

A path to peace. (Dear Journal).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The effort to eliminate terrorism will be inconclusive as Long as only police and military strategies are followed. The challenge is to achieve a better world, not just apprehend terrorists. The income gap between the bottom 20 percent and...

Ban the car; saddle the horses. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... We need more than a vocabulary Lesson on how to save something in some far-off Land. We need people who are willing to take action in their own lives to save the environment. That means not using cars -- the biggest polluter of our Earth's air....

Laser deaths disputed. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... There have been several deaths attributed to less-lethal TASER weapons by Amnesty International ["The Globalization of Repression," Winter 2001-2], but as the Largest manufacturer of TASER weapons, I have personally retrieved the autopsy...

Time to hit the streets. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... There were a Lot of great action words in your Spring issue! You called for creation of a renewable energy economy, a foreign policy based on human rights, social justice and environmental security. You asked us to become involved in the debate...

US out of outer space. (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... You commend the Space Preservation Act (HR 3616) without thought to Section 6, which allows funding for space commercialization, surveillance and exploration for the "benefit of humankind." Has humankind suddenly discovered environmental...

Got faith? (Dear Journal).
June 22, 2002... The president's global warming proposal appears to be another faith-based initiative: We should have faith that major corporations will volunteer cuts in their carbon pollution. That approach has failed for a decade -- since the president's...

Corrections.
June 22, 2002... Free Speech TV [PO Box 6060, Boulder, CO 80306, (303) 442-8445, www.freespeech.org] is available on the DISH Network (Channel 9415) and on US cable affiliates. The correct phone number for Solana Recycling is (760) 436-7986.

A prayer for America. (Dear Journal).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... I offer these brief remarks today as a prayer for our country..., [in] the belief that a flee people cannot walk in fear and faith at the same time.... How can we justify, in effect, canceling the First Amendment -- the right of free...

These roofs last a lawn time. (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... JAPAN -- With summer temperatures rising, cities like Tokyo and Fukuoka have found a cheap, natural way to beat back the swelter of urban "heat islands." This year, the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) began "greening" Tokyo's rooftops with...

Something fishy. (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... CHINA -- Singapore National University biologists have created transgenic zebra fish that flash fluorescent red and green when exposed to toxic chemicals. Project leader Zhiyuan Gong boasts that "biomonitoring fish" are the perfect tool "to...

Corps demand right to vote. (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... CANADA -- In early March, the British Columbia town of Lake Cowichan petitioned the BC government to amend the Local Government Act to allow corporations to vote in municipal elections. "The resolution threatens fundamental democratic...

Tree-free paper. A staple item? (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... US -- Staples Inc., the $11-billion office-supply giant, will honor Earth Day (April 22) by stocking its shelves with Vanguard Living Tree printer and copier paper made from hemp, flax and post-consumer waste. Although it is only 10 percent...

Utah's guv goes for the Copper. (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... US -- The Winter Olympics had three mascots -- a rabbit, a bear and a coyote. The Salt Lake City Organizing Committee's (SLOC) favorite was Copper the Coyote, whose "coyote charisma... makes him the media darling of the mascot trio." Tell that...

A climate `threshhold' looms. (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... US -- In 2001, the UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that Earth's average surface temperature would gradually rise by as much as 10 F during this century -- a shift larger than any seen in the past 10,000 years. The...

A really attractive cooler. (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... US -- Someday soon, instead of putting magnets on your refrigerator, you may be putting magnets inside your refrigerator. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory in Iowa have teamed with the Astronautics Technology Center in...

Is that a chip in your shoulder? (Ebb & Flow).(Semiconductor chips)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... US -- Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (ADS) has invented an "identification chip" the size of a dime that can be implanted in the human body "to save lives, enhance personal security and improve quality of life." The VeriChip's[TM] personal ID...

The last Winter Olympics? (Ebb & Flow).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... US -- The organizers of the Winter Olympics are taking bids for the 2010 games but have they taken global warming into account? The World Resources Institute (WRI) warns that Earth's rising temperatures mean there will be "less snow and shorter...

Stockholm shocker. (Eco-Mole).(prevention of developing environmental standards)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... British government documents released in January revealed the existence of a secret campaign to sabotage the 1972 Stockholm Conference, the world's first global environmental summit. According to the New Scientist, "the Brussels Group"...

One Feld swoop. (Eco-Mole).(animal rights)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Shortly after a jury in San Jose, California acquitted a Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey animal trainer on charges of animal cruelty, Ringling Chair Kenneth Feld [www.ringling.com] purchased a full-page ad in the New York Times accusing People...

Greenscam. (Eco-Mole).(biotechnology industry)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Stephen S. Boynton ushered in the new year with a speech that seemed to possess a familiar environmental stance. "Our human population is expanding. Our land and water masses are not," he declared. But within moments, Boynton was assailing...

Spooks in the media. (Eco-Mole).(CIA propaganda)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Los Angeles Times reports that the CIA is running an overt propaganda war on America's movie and TV screens. When Tom Cruise starred in Top Gun, Navy recruitment figures went off the scale. Former CIA operative Chase Brandon (described by...

Haunted house. (Eco-Mole).(Central Intelligence Agency)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... When George "Read My Lips" Bush became president, it marked the first time that a former member of the Central Intelligence Agency had (knowingly) risen to elective office. That has changed. The House of Representatives now includes two former...

Infirmative action? (Eco-Mole).(corporate law)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... After an investigation revealed that hundreds of contractors were still being awarded federal contracts despite convictions for defrauding the government, President Clinton signed an order that banned corporate felons from receiving federal...

Mole nip. (Eco-Mole).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Mole is morose after learning that Lord Peter Melchert -- the executive director of Greenpeace UK who was busted in 2001 for uprooting a field of Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) crops -- has left Greenpeace for a job with the PR firm...

Mole nip: to Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. (Eco-Mole).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... To Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, who pressured the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to authorize construction of a liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal at Cove Point on Chesapeake Bay. The storage site sits only three miles from the...

Mole nip: to Madonna. (Eco-Mole).(bird hunting)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... To Madonna, who has taken to shooting birds near her British countryside home. "I eat the birds," Madonna explains. "You have more of a respect for the things you eat when you go through... the process of killing them."

Flight paths saved. (Positive Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... More than 618,000 acres of protected wetlands that provide habitat for birds migrating through the Azov and Black seas in Ukraine and Russia are due to be dramatically improved thanks to a $6.9-million grant from the UN'S Global Environment...

Moore money for conservation. (Positive Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Gordon Moore is a co-founder of Intel Corp.) has given $261 million to Conservation International (CI) to help save threatened and unique wildlife in tropical wilderness and bio-diverse areas. The grant...

Doing good by doing food. (Positive Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Paul Newman has become justly revered for his line of organic food items adorned with the promise that "all royalties after taxes... [fund] educational and charitable purposes." Now Bette Midler has found a way to combine epicureanism with...

Ranger reinstated. (Positive Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... On December 27, Bob Jackson, a seasonal Park Ranger who has patrolled Yellowstone's back country for the past 24 years, won his "whistleblower" claim against the National Park Service. US law protects whistleblowers who report health and safety...

Shantytown recycles for profit. (Positive Notes).(Kenya)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Kenyan town of Korogocho (the name means "without hope" in the local dialect) provides an example of how recycling can be a significant source of income for local residents. In 1995, American student Mathew Meyer and Kenyan Benson Wikyo...

Women found eco law in Iran. (Positive Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Victoria Jamali, director of environmental research at the University of Tehran, and several colleagues, are creating Iran's first environmental law program. Jamali founded the Women's Society Against Environmental Pollution, one of the...

Parrots and the apes. (Positive Notes).(books for children)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... What the Orangutan Told Alice, a new environmental storybook by Dale Smith, tells the story of two teenagers who wander into a Borneo rainforest where they encounter endangered orangutans and a primatologist working to save them from...

So much for progress. (Positive Notes).(building techniques)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Salvatierra residential development, a 200-foot-long, four-story apartment complex in Rennes, Brittany, France, employed some ancient building techniques to produce a highly energy-efficient structure. Adobe-like cob construction (made from...

Spiritual movement launched. (Positive Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Tikkun Community, a new multi-denominational organization of spiritual politics, promotes love and caring as antidotes to an America mired in a spiritual crisis generated by selfishness and materialism. Writing in Tikkun magazine...

Greenworks TV. (Positive Notes).(wildlife webcasting)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... This Pennsylvania-based website [www.greenworks.tv] boasts live webcasts, streaming wildlife webcams and the "world's largest collection of online environmental videos." And if that's not "green" enough for you, the website is powered entirely...

Green Press Initiative. (Positive Notes).(using recycled paper in book publishing)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... More than 40 percent of logged timber is turned into paper. The nonprofit Green Press Initiative believes that "authors and publishers have the power to save trees" by pledging to have their words printed only on 100 percent postconsumer...

Bluewater Network. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Bluewater Network has achieved a breakthrough in attempts to reduce greehouse gas emissions from California's passenger vehicles. The approval of Assemblymember Fran Pavley's AB 1058 (sponsored by Bluewater), requires the California Air...

Faultline Magazine. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... FAULTLINE MAGAZINE [www.faultline.org], Earth Island's newest project, covers California's environment from a Californian perspective. From the time of John Muir, California has been the birthplace of green sensibility, and many environmental...

Boreal Footprint Project. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(report on sustainable forestry)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BOREAL FOOTPRINT PROJECT and The Taiga Rescue Network have co-authored a study entitled "Sustainable for Whom?" [www. earthisland.org/bfp] that examines the social benefits for small boreal communities whose forests are sustainably managed...

The Yggdrasil Institute. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Yggdrasil Institute (YI) has published an online update of YI Director Mary Byrd Davis' guide, Nuclear France: Materials and Sites 2002, [www.francenuc.org]. The guide, in English and French, provides a fully annotated and meticulously...

Save International. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... SAVE INTERNATIONAL was one of 25 organizations, companies and individuals chosen to receive the Favorite "Little Engine That Could" Award bestowed by GoodThings, Inc., a Seattle-based media group. SAVE International's work to save Taiwan's...

Earth Island Co-Executive Director John Knox, Journal Editor Gar Smith and Vision Paper President Tom Rymsza hosted a delegation of Japanese papermakers at the World Affiars Council in January. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... EARTH ISLAND Co-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOHN KNOX, JOURNAL EDITOR GAR SMITH and Vision Paper President Tom Rymsza hosted a delegation of Japanese papermakers at the World Affiars Council in January. Kuchi University Professor Kazuhiko Sameshima,...

Joanna (Joanie) Vaile Killian, a strong supporter and member of EII's International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) and younger sister of Brenda Killian, Executive Director of IMMP's Dolphin-Safe Monitoring Program, passed away on December 20, 2001. (Making waves: Earth Island in the news).(Obituary)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... JOANNA (JOANIE) VAILE KILLIAN, a strong supporter and member of EII's International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) and younger sister of Brenda Killian, Executive Director of IMMP's Dolphin-Safe Monitoring Program, passed away on December 20,...

Bluewater Network to become independent. (Earth Island and Project News).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Bob Wilkinson, President of Earth Island Institute, and Russell Long, Director of Earth Island's Bluewater Network (BWN) announced on February 4, 2001 that BWN will become independent of Earth Island Institute effective April 15, 2002 after...

Protecting Predators `On Nature's Terms'. (Wild Futures).
June 22, 2002... Late in 1998, a landmark meeting was convened high in the Rockies to further the protection of America's large predators -- the grizzly bear, the mountain lion and the wolf. The Predator/Ecosystem Protection Summit achieved the remarkable goal...

Village mapping program threatened. (Borneo Project).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BORNEO -- Since the early 1990s, the shrinking size and cost of Global Positioning System (GPS) units and the increasing ease of using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology have allowed ordinary citizens around the world to make...

US Navy admits sonar killed whales. (International Marine Mammal Project).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... In March 2000, 14 rare beaked whales, two minke whales and a dolphin became stranded within a 25-hour period on the beaches of the Bahamas. While the dolphin and six of the whales died, ten of the whales were successfully returned to the sea....

2002: A year of decision for Dolphins. (Save the Dolphin-safe label).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... In 1997, Congress passed the International Dolphin Conservation Program Act (IDCPA), a compromise bill that called for defining the Legal meaning of the phrase "Dolphin Safe" based on the best scientific research. This year will mark the final...

Report from the Philippines. (International Marine Mammal Project).(tuna fishing and animal welfare)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... THE PHILIPPINES -- The last few years have been a struggle for tuna canneries in the East Asia region. Since the financial crisis of 1997, the region's tuna industry has been hit by fluctuating foreign exchange rates. Meanwhile, because the...

Otter despair. (Sea Otter Defense Initiative).(extinction of sea otters imminent)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Despite the valiant efforts of biologists, environmentalists and many dedicated volunteers, sea otter populations from California to Alaska remain in grave danger. Sea otters once ranged from Japan to the coast of Siberia and from Alaska...

`Rio+ 10': let the people be heard. (World Sustainability Hearings).(United Nations' World Summit on Sustainable Development )
June 22, 2002... In August, delegates from governments around the world will gather at the United Nations' World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, to review the successes and failures of the "sustainable development" agenda...

The snowmobile lobby's snow job. (Bluewater Network).
June 22, 2002... The International Flat Earth Society (FES) is a nonprofit organization opposed to the idea that the Earth is spherical. Members believe that "the known, inhabited world is flat" and that the tenets of modern science are a "way-out occult...

Clean jobs to save the climate. (Climate Solutions).
June 22, 2002... The "clean energy" industry is expected to average $180 billion in sales annually over the next 20 years -- twice the revenue of commercial aircraft manufacturing. The industry (conservatively projected to represent a $3.5 trillion market over...

Chartering a new course. (Around the World).(Cousteau Society petition to UN)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... UNITED NATIONS -- A delegation from the Cousteau Society (founded in 1973 by French oceanographer/environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau) has presented United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan with a petition calling for stronger UN action...

Coal is bad; charcoal is worse. (Africa).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... KENYA -- Nine percent of the energy in oil-rich Nigeria is derived from burning charcoal. Most of the residents of Africa and Southeast Asia stilt get much of their heat from charcoal. The Journal of Geophysical Research reports that the...

Tinder or tenure? (Africa).(forest fires, Ethiopia)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... ETHIOPIA -- "Ethiopia is currently losing 200,000 hectares every year as a result of forest fires," warns agriculturist Dechassa Lemessa, "If something is not done soon... there will be no forest land in 15 to 20 years." Lemessa is the...

Be it resolved ... (Africa).(US bill to protect African farmers' right to control seeds and food crops)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... AFRICA -- World Trade Organization rules covering the patenting of "intellectual property rights" are being used to grant multinational corporations the rights to claim "ownership" of traditional food crops and medicinal plants exchanged freely...

Corn oil: the great well of China. (Asia).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... CHINA -- Faced with the prediction that its gas and oil reserves will run dry within 30 years, China began construction of its first fuel-ethanol plant last November. While ethanol is still expensive to produce, Chinese officials expect to see...

Responsible carry-away. (Asia).(abandoned chemical pesticides)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... NEPAL -- To most people, Nepal is "the Roof of the World" but to some well-known chemical companies it's more Eke "the Basement of the World." Nepalese agricultural technicians, working with a team of Greenpeace activists from India, Germany,...

Time to stop cloning around. (Asia).(premature death of cloned mice)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... JAPAN -- Research at Tokyo's National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) revealed that cloned mice have something in common -- premature death. Or, as The Guardian (London) put it: "a clone's life is wheezy, liverish and short." According...

Versatility, thy name is Kenaf. (Asia).(planting kenaf in Nagoya, Japan)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... JAPAN -- Kenaf, the plant that has been used to produce "tree-free" issues of Earth Island Journal, is now being used to produce "pollution-free" air in downtown Nagoya City. Sachio Ogasawara, a researcher with the Kenaf Club of Japan,...

Dhaka says `bag it!' (Asia).(Bangladesh's ban on polyethylene bags)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BANGLADESH -- Like many poor countries, Bangladesh is plagued by the detritus of discarded plastic. Each year more than 9 million polyethylene bags are tossed into the streets of Dhaka, the capital city. As many as 90 percent wind up clogging...

Tobin or not Tobin. (Europe).(Lionel Jospin supports "Tobin tax" on international currency trades)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... FRANCE -- French Foreign Minister Lionel Jospin has placed himself as a front-runner in the country's presidential race this year by publicly proposing that France adopt the "Tobin tax." The levy, proposed by Nobel prize-winning Yale Economics...

A good right's sleep. (Europe).(right to good night's sleep near airports)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... UK -- In an act of desperation, red-eyed residents living near London's Heathrow Airport (the world's fourth-busiest with 64.6 million passengers a year) complained to the European Court that the airport noise was depriving them of sleep. In...

Foxes escape scot-free. (Europe).(Scottish Parliament bans fox hunting)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... SCOTLAND -- On February 13, after months of passionate debate, the Scottish Parliament voted 83 to 36 to ban the ancient practice of pursuing foxes with hunting dogs for sport. The Protection of Wild Mammals Bill outlaws a tradition that has...

It's not noise: call it a `blare'. (Europe).(Heathrow Airport expansion plans)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... UK -- Despite complaints and lawsuits from people living near Heathrow Airport, the Labour government plans to build a fifth airport at the sprawling complex. Labour Transport Secretary Stephen Byers argues that Britain must spend 2.5 billion...

Toxic testing gets serious. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... FRANCE -- By a vote of 242 to 165, the European Parliament called for widespread testing of the environmental and health risks of 30,000 chemical products. The European Commission is set to introduce a new standard on testing and labeling...

As if DU wasn't bad enough ... (Europe).(depleted uranium)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... KOSOVO -- Scientists in Ireland report that rounds of depleted uranium (DU) shells fired by NATO troops in Kosovo contained plutonium. In addition, The Irish Times reports, the DU rounds contaminated local water supplies and people exposed to...

Overfishing now a global no-no. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... MALTA -- Last December, the United Nations celebrated the ratification of the first global treaty to control overfishing on the high seas. The treaty went into effect when Malta became the 30th nation to adopt the new rules. The UN Food and...

Fission fades as renewables rise. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... SWEDEN -- Prime Minister Goeran Persson plans to close the Barseback 2 nuclear reactor by 2003. The powerplant's energy will be offset by renewable energy projects and conservation measures. In Belgium, the government plans to start phasing out...

Wind's up, so wind down nukes. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... UK -- The British government is contemplating spending 6 billion [pounds sterling] ($10 billion) to construct six 600 MW nuclear powerplants. But for a mere 100 million [pounds sterling] ($143.2 million), the British Wind Energy Association...

Missile pretense system. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... UK -- There's a big problem with the Pentagon's plan for bringing down enemy missiles during a "boost-phase interception." While it's easier for a US missile to locate and hit a flaming booster rocket within the first six seconds of its...

Courting the Earth. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... FRANCE -- "People no longer look to their political representatives to defend their interests," notes Francine Cousteau, president of the Cousteau Society. Faced with a lack of responsive leadership, "civil society is getting organized and...

Money makes the world go green. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... DENMARK -- The European Environment Agency (EEA) wondered why wind energy was making faster strides in Germany than in Britain; why solar panels were being installed more readily in Spain than in Greece. An EEA investigation concluded that the...

Bove unbowed. (Europe).(Jose Bove)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... FRANCE -- Farmer, activist and author Jose Bove was sentenced to six months in jail for destroying a field of genetically altered rice in 1999. Bore's supporters were routed from the courtroom by dot police firing tear gas. Bove's appeal to the...

Freiburg's latest solar goal. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... GERMANY -- The university town of Freiburg, known far and wide as the "sunniest city in Germany" because of its towering solar-powered downtown train terminal and the "Zero Emissions Hotel Victoria," has added two more environmentally...

`Solar is hip in Germany'. (Europe).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... GERMANY -- Solar power is blazing hot in Germany thanks to the government's passage of the Renewable Energies Law (REL) in April 2001. "It was not fear of power outages, high gas prices or tripled power bills, but economic incentives that...

Greeting guests with open palms. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... DUBAI -- TWO immense man-made islands are being built off the coast of Dubai. The islands, which will add nearly 75 miles (120 kin) of new beaches to the country's coast, are being built in the shape of two palm trees. Knowing that oil reserves...

US blocks critical investigation. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... IRAO -- Six years after the Gulf War, cancer cases in Iraq had nearly doubled to 10,931, according to Iraq's Health Ministry. Iraqi health officials blame exposure to the toxic residue of depleted uranium (DU) munitions for unprecedented...

Gene-pooling Earth's resources. (South America).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BRAZIL -- Activists from 50 countries gathered at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in February, called for a global treaty recognizing the gene pool as a global commons. More than 250 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) pledged support...