HADI MIZBAN, Associated Press Writer reports from the Southern Iraq – Wed Apr 15. HOR AL-HAMMAR, Iraq – A severe drought is threatening Iraq’s southern marshes — the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden — just as the region was recovering from Saddam Hussein’s draining of its lakes and swamps to punish a [...]
The dirty truth: They're smuggling soap in Spokane
Spokane County’s limits on the sales of phosphates in dishwasher detergent has slowed the flood of pollutants into the Spokane River — but sped the flood of shoppers into Idaho to get the strong soap By Kim Murphy | April 6, 2009 Reporting from Spokane, Wash. — By day, Patti Marcotte is a working mom [...]
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
The Guardian | Wednesday October 29 2008 | Juliette Jowit The world is heading for an “ecological credit crunch” far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today. The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the [...]
Fish With First Neck Evolved Into Land Animal — Slowly
James Owen | National Geographic News | October 15, 2008 The skull of a 375-million-year-old walking fish reveals new clues to how our fish ancestors evolved into land dwellers. The fossil fish—called Tiktaalik roseae—was discovered in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 and provides the ‘missing link’ between fish and land vertebrates, according to scientists. It’s [...]
