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Mutual De-fence Treaty
Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe plan to sign a historic agreement next month to create a massive wildlife park that will protect elephants, leopards, rhinos, lions, and buffalo. Wildlife ministers from the three nations will agree to remove the fences that divide their wildlands in order to create a reserve area of about 38,000 square […]
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Eek Coli
One of the worst North American outbreaks of E. coli has hit the small town of Walkerton, Ontario, presumably because water supplies were contaminated by runoff from nearby cattle feedlots after a heavy rainstorm on May 12. Five people have died and nearly 1,000, or about a fifth of the town’s population, have fallen ill […]
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Putin Up Their Nukes
The Russian government has come up with a plan to build as many as 38 new nuclear reactors by 2020, disregarding concerns that the nation could be setting itself up for a repeat of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Russian enviros are particularly disturbed that the Ministry of Atomic Energy plans to help pay for […]
