3 May 2011 (Desdemona Despair) – It’s hard for Desdemona to believe, but it’s been 25 years since the “worst technogenic accident in history.” Des heard the news at the front desk of the MacGregor House dorm, and has had a morbid fascination with the event ever since. The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion […]
Karachi, April 30 (The News International) – Over 4.7 million malaria cases reported in Pakistan in 2010, compared to just 125,000 in 2009. Of the total 4.7 million, only 50,000 were reported from the flood-affected areas of the country. “These figures show the severity of the situation with regards to the mosquito-born disease that has […]
By Roger Highfield 21 April 2011 A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear accident, experts still can’t agree how many people it killed. Two people died immediately as a result of the blast at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine – then part of the Soviet Union – on 26 April 1986. […]
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY21 April 2011 Children exposed to high pesticide levels in the womb have lower average IQs than other kids, according to three independent studies released today in Environmental Health Perspectives. The studies involved more than 400 children, followed from before birth through ages 6 to 9, from both urban and rural […]
NAIROBI, 20 April 2011 (IRIN) – Officials and aid workers in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region have raised the alarm over the plight of drought-stricken villagers urgently needing food and water. “We are experiencing the worst drought we have seen in decades; since the beginning of March, we have buried 54 people who died from the […]
By Kerry Sheridan 17 April 2011 RACELAND, Louisiana (AFP) – Jamie Simon worked on a barge in the oily waters for six months following the BP spill last year, cooking for the cleanup workers, washing their clothes and tidying up after them. One year later, the 32-year-old said she still suffers from a range of […]
ISIOLO/MANDERA, 6 April 2011 (IRIN) – Thousands more heads of livestock have died in Kenya’s arid Northeastern province as La Niña drought conditions worsen and water shortages become more acute. Drought monitoring and assessment reports indicate that the hardest-hit areas are Marsabit, Moyale and Mandera. Livestock farmers in the three regions have lost more than […]
By Ismat Sabir1 April 2011 Pakistan has drawn up a National Water Strategy to meet the millennium development goals (MDG) target before 2025 and has launched a scheme to provide clean drinking water for its people by the end of 2007. But the scheme, which was launched in September 2005, shows no positive results, due […]
Points of View from Buras to Venice, Plaquemines Parish Perspectives on how the community has changed since the oil spill Katrina brought everyone together and the oil spill has split everyone apart. (Restaurant Owner: 9.29.10) Afraid for the health, to lose BP jobs. Can’t fish, shrimp, crab or swim anymore. Aggravated by all the lying, […]
Nearly a year after the oil disaster began, Gulf Coast residents are sick, and dying from BP’s toxic chemicals. By Dahr Jamil 9 March 2011 “I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body,” 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. “Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood […]
