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Let Down Your Giardia
Filtering water may not be the answer to most backcountry illnesses Went to the backwoods and ended up with a case of the runs? You probably blamed the water. But according to some medical and wilderness professionals, it is poor personal hygiene, not unsafe water, that usually bedevils the bowels of wilderness backpackers. Medical researcher […]
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Switch Emitters
Led by U.S., five nations craft new climate-change pact Australia, China, India, South Korea, and the U.S. have secretly negotiated a global-warming pact that could steal the spotlight from the Kyoto Protocol — or so the U.S. hopes. According to advance word from a meeting of Asia-Pacific nations in Laos, this fledgling “Asia-Pacific Partnership for […]
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‘Toon In, Turn On, Drop Out
Do you draw funny stuff? Get in touch! Calling all doodlers, calling all doodlers. Grist is now accepting submissions for our soon-to-be-revamped cartoon section. We’re looking for political cartoons with environmental themes. To get filled in on the technical details — file formats, dpi, etc. — write emailE=(‘cartoons@’ + ‘grist.org’) document.write(‘‘ + emailE + ‘‘) […]
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I’ll Take Menhaden
Tiny fish being wiped out to make health-food supplements Omega Protein Corp. is overharvesting a little Chesapeake Bay fish called menhaden in order to make omega-3 fatty-acid food supplements for its health-crazed customers, leading to a decline in the striped bass that eat them (the menhaden, not the supplements or the health-crazed customers). This according […]
