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Posts Tagged ‘poison’
Health, Pollution, Feb 16th, 2012,
A court in Lyon, France found American biotech firm Monsanto guilty of poisoning a farmer who inhaled fumes from its Lasso weed killer back in 2004. Monsanto was made famous in the 1970s for being sued by American Vietnam War veterans who were poisoned by the defoliant Agent Orange. They are also being sued by some 300,000 plaintiffs because they patent genetically modified seeds that don’t proliferate, forcing farmers to buy more every year. Lasso has been banned in Canada and the UK since the 80s and is now banned in France. One year after cereal farmer Paul François accidentally…
Tags: France, herbicide, lasso, Monsanto, pesticide, poison
Climate Change, Green living, Pollution, Recycling, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 25th, 2010,
Not to be outdone by its fellow large expanse of sea and longtime nemesis, the larger Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean can now claim a colossal plastic garbage patch of its own. According to reports from the BBC and AP, the Atlantic ‘Rubbish Patch’ – located within the latitudes of 22 and 38 degrees N in the North Atlantic Ocean – is comparable to the better-known Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The researchers carried out 6,100 tows in areas of the Caribbean and the North Atlantic – off the coast of the US. More than half of these expeditions revealed floating…
Tags: AP, Atlantic, BBC, garbage, great, north, ocean, Pacific, Patch, plastic, poison, pollutants, rubbish, sea, trash
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 10th, 2009,
Death, birth defects, contaminated soil and water as well as skin, vision and breathing diseases, are some of the effects that linger in the Indian city of Bhopal some 25 years after a massive poison gas leak. On December 3rd, 1984, the worst chemical disaster in history took place in this central Indian city, causing death, sickness and lasting problems such as brain damage, irregular menstrual cycles and a wide range of disabilities. ‘The Bhopal industrial disaster killed about 4,000 people in the early hours of Dec. 3, 1984. A few days later the death toll had doubled. Over the…
Tags: Bhopal, chemical, chemical disaster, disaster, gas leak, India, msnbc, poison, Union Carbide
