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A lack of oxygen and nutrients below the surface of beaches in Alaska's Prince William Sound is slowing the dissipation of oil remaining from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.


The EPA has released a map of all facilities it took enforcement actions against in 2009, including incidents of air and water pollution and illegal dumping of hazardous waste.
Researchers have found that those of us living in developed countries—men, women and children alike—carry around quite a toxic burden in our bodies from the constant exposure to various chemicals in our urban, suburban and even rural environments. If this weren’t alarming enough, the fact that these chemicals end up in breast milk and are in turn passed along to newborns is even more troubling.
‘Tis the season of gaining weight. Face the facts; it is all that delicious holiday food we gorge ourselves on. Prepare less to save money and the trouble of adding a new notch to your belt.
A gingerbread house was the “study in responsible development — and the use of building materials without artificial food coloring are a nod to “eco-gingerbread chic.”
It’s that time of year when the older children are home from school for the holiday break. This means they’ll want to play more video games, watch more television and out of boredom and because they can – they’ll want to eat more. Plus some good alternatives to holiday candies.
A recent study at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam indicates that even three decades after the war ended, the cancer-causing dioxins are at levels 300 to 400 times higher than what is deemed to be safe.
Well as the Cop 15 rolls on we are slowly learning who and what are the players. Why do they stand where and how they do. To bad that it is the leaders who are making the decisions. It may be the most important peoples voices are not being heard especially the voices of woman in developing countries in particular on the topic of reproductive rights.

In Vancouver they are not going to wait till the the environmental disaster occurs before they raise their voices. Just at the mention of opening a Uranium mine 20 doctors are threatening resignation and around a 1000 are protesting in extreme cold. Keep an eye out for the doctors press conference.
Arctic PCBs seem to clean up easier than some further south. According to an extremely encouraging report the PCBs of a site cleaned up between '97 and '04 show significant improvement. The site had been polluted to dangerous levels from 1930 up into 1970. Animals in the area have begun to show a much lower almost acceptable level of PCBs if there is such a thing. Unluckily the same is not true o


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