Toxic alert as US ship heads for India

Oct. 24, 2009 BANGALORE - A ship of United States origin that is reportedly carrying toxic substances and headed for dismantling in India's ship-breaking yards, is caught in a storm. Environmentalists are up in arms over the ship not being detoxified at its port of origin in the US and want the ship to be sent back. A former luxury liner, the 18,503-tonne Platinum-II is currently anchored near Gopnath, some 40 nautical miles from its destination, Alang, the hub of India's ship-breaking industry in the western Indian state of Gujarat. According to the Indian Platform on Shipbreaking (IPOS), a coalition of environmental, labor, health and human-rights activists, Platinum-II contains about 210 tons of materials contaminated by toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and some 200 tons of asbestos-containing materials, along with radioactive substances.. » read more

ENVIRONMENT-US: Greatest of Lakes Hit by Climate Change

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Oct 22 (IPS/IFEJ) - The weather was right for swimming this summer along the shores of Lake Michigan, but on many days, the only living things seen on the beach were gulls, picking away at zebra mussels ensnared in a thick, green slime that covered every rock, pebble and grain of sand for miles. (Click to enlarge photo) Scientists aboard the Lake Guardian research vessel prepare to sample water from Lake Michigan. The slime is Cladophora, a native algae that over the last few years morphed from a well-behaved algae into a green monster that fouls drinking water and beaches, and clogs industrial intake pipes in Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes. Scientists so far haven't found the reason for Cladophora's overgrowth. The lake is under such profound environmental stress that any of a number of factors, alone or together, could be the cause, they say.. » read more

As economy grows, so do China's garbage woes

Oct. 11, 2009 ZHANGLIDONG, China—Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. var requestedWidth = 0; Click photo to enlarge In this photo taken Sunday, June 6, 2009, Chinese women and men search through... » read more

THE ALBATROSS AROUND ALL OUR NECKS!

OcT. 19, 2009 I just saw this and felt I had to share it. The photos were taken by Chris Jordan as part of his series "Midway: Message from the Gyre." The series can be seen in its entirety here. For further beautiful and disturbing art with a message on consumerism check out http://chrisjordan.. » read more

U.S. Pharmaceutical Factories Dumping Huge Quantities of Drugs Into Public Sewers, Rivers and Waterways

Sept. 24, 2009 (NaturalNews) In spite of claims by pharmaceutical companies that they do not discharge their products into the water supply, federal researchers have discovered that waters downstream of pharmaceutical plants are more heavily contaminated with drug residue than waters elsewhere in the country. In one study, conducted by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), researchers tested the water entering two water treatment plants down the sewer line of several pharmaceutical factories, as well as at other plants not receiving sewage from drug plants.. » read more

A World Without Plastic Bottles

----- Original Message ----- From: JG To: bellringer Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:47 AM Subject: A world without plastic bottles!   Our mission: To eliminate or decrees the use of plastic bottles in everyday life. Help the environment Why? Because: 1. it takes more than 400 years for a plastic bottle to decompose 2. plastic bottles contain dangerous chemicals hazardous to our health 3. Plastic is poisoning our oceans  - http://www.. » read more

U.S. NAVY TO CONDUCT MASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC EXPERIMENTAL TESTS

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Spraying of Deadly Chemicals

  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitchell Voydat" <Mvoydat@yahoo.com> To: <bellringer@fourwinds10.com> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:30 PM Subject: Siterun Contact Request from Fourwinds10    Message:  Please contact me at my e-mail address or call me at work, 310-222-3360 about any companies that do aerial or ground spraying of deadly chemicals because I would like to respond and send a letter to that company to stop it right now!!!  . » read more

Dangerous Untreated West Bank Wastewater

July 18, 2009 B’Tselem is the Jerusalem-based independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (OPT) with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy and integrity. It was founded in 1989 to “document and educate the Israeli public, policymakers (and concerned people everywhere) about human rights violations in the OPT, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public (and elsewhere, especially among Jews), and create a human rights culture in Israel” to convince government officials to respect human rights and comply with international law. It conducts wide-ranging, carefully researched, and thoroughly cross-checked reports, most recently its June one titled, “Foul Play: Neglect of wastewater treatment in the West Bank.” This article discusses its findings as further evidence of how Israel violates international humanitarian law as an occupying power. Because no global authority holds it accountable, over 2.. » read more

Britain's Dirty Little Secret As A Dumper of Toxic Waste

July 18, 2009 Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international convention. The Government last night was considering tightening the enforcement of rules after the discovery of hazardous medical and electrical waste in Brazil and Ghana. Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, ordered an investigation into two British companies linked to 90 shipping containers containing 1,400 tonnes of waste. They included syringes, condoms and nappies. The companies that received the waste — sent from Felixstowe to three Brazilian ports — said that they had been expecting recyclable plastic.. » read more

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