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In the 1930s and 1940s people and businesses did not pay a lot of attention to what happened to toxic chemicals produced during industrial processes. While there have long been regulations for the handling of these dangerous chemicals, enforcement of these laws was virtually nonexistent or haphazard at best. Large corporations, such as Hooker Chemical [...] With the Beijing Olympics in sight, Chinese authorities have long been working feverishly to give the city an extreme health makeover. In a recent test, Beijing’s air failed, again, to meet international health standards and guidelines six out of the seven days tested. Apparently, it is true that desperate times call for desperate measures. Reportedly, [...] Landslides caused by the Sichuan earthquake have blocked rivers and formed new, possibly unstable, lakes. Satellite images taken by the Taiwan’s National Space Organisation (NSPO) show one such lake forming in Beichuan County, one of the areas worst hit by the quake. [via BBC] Photo Credit: Adam Cohn Just south of Liangqiao, in southern China’s Guangdong province is the small village of Shangba. On the surface, this community of roughly 3,300 appears to be a tranquil, rural village comprised of sugar cane fields and plentiful rice paddies. When a closer look is taken, the people of Shangba have been [...] Texas A&M University in College Station Texas,1 has been conducting research into so-called “select agents,” i.e. biological agents that the government thinks can be turned into biological weapons. The university’s efforts are part of an $18 billion federal program to develop vaccines. On April 20, 2007 the Centers for Disease Control — the CDC — [...] |
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