Invasive Species, China, and the Olympics
As the Olympic Games approach, China has come under fire for its environmental track record. Tales of Beijing and other cities’ infamous pollution and images of highly polluted lakes and rivers have met with demands for action, both within China and internationally, and have produced some meaningful results. Yet another environmental crisis looms: biological invasions. Indeed, while perhaps not as overt as choking smog or pea-green water, the ecosystems of this vast nation are increasingly threatened by invasive species. read more
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Fighting Malaria with DDT: A Decades-Long Debate
The global campaign to eradicate malaria in the 1950s and ’60s successfully vanquished the disease from the United States and Europe and substantially reduced it in others – in India and Sri Lanka, for instance, malaria cases decreased by 99 percent . Malaria transmission was nearly wiped out in the subtropics , and it was significantly reined in in parts of the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Asia.
About the insecticide that served as a cornerstone of the campaign, the National Academy of Sciences wrote in 1970: “To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt.” But the same insecticide has become one of today’s most infamous chemicals. It is DDT. read more
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Company scores plummet in Greener Electronics Guide
With expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 5/10 in our latest Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo and Microsoft remain rooted to the bottom of the Guide.
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