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Unholy Union Carbide
Thousands marched through the city of Bhopal, India, today to mark the 15th anniversary of a poisonous gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant, which killed an estimated 6,000 people and injured perhaps hundreds of thousands more. The marchers protested insufficient compensation for injuries and demanded action against Union Carbide officials and Warren Anderson, […]
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Going to Greenpieces
For the second time in three years, the board of Greenpeace U.S.A. is resigning, unable to resolve serious rifts over policy. The organization suffered a major shake-up in 1997, when, in the face of declining membership and revenue, it ended its grassroots tradition of going door to door for members and donations, shrank its national […]
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Blow It Up and They Will Come
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, whose favorite pastime of late seems to be tearing down dams, got his first chance to employ explosives for the sake of fish this week. On Wednesday, he presided over the destruction of a dam on the Little River, near Goldboro, N.C., which opened up 49 miles of spawning habitat for […]
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Park and Chide
Many national parks and government-protected wilderness areas in developing nations are threatened or in bad condition, according to a new report conducted by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Many of the parks are at risk from logging, hunting, mining, pollution, agriculture, human settlement, tourism, and war. The World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund, which […]
