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For the people of the densely populated city of Bhopal, India, December 2 and 3 of 1984 mark a very dark anniversary — a time that left thousands dead and thousands more deathly ill and clinging to life. It all started in the late 1970s when Union Carbide India Limited constructed a pesticide plant in [...] The Aral Sea is in the Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is largely shallow with many lagoons and islands and was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water. Today, it is the eighth largest, and one of our greatest ecological disasters. Photo Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki Most of us have heard stories of some unsuspecting child or fisherman happening upon a frog that seems completely healthy, except for the fact that it has no legs or an extra eye. At one time, these stories were deemed as oddities or unusual, freak occurrences. Now, however, malformed frogs are [...] When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. That has been [...] In 1964, a report produced by the Tennessee Department of Public Health stated that the Chattanooga Creek was “without a doubt, the most grossly polluted stream in the Chattanooga area.†In 1969, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare determined that Chattanooga, Tennessee had the poorest air quality in the nation. This was due, in [...] |
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