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NZSearch - Find NZ Web Sites in our Search NZ Web Directory. KiwiBattler. Environmental Activism. Response: No, Greens must not cosy up to capitalism. They must resist it. In your interview with Mark Lynas he describes his conversion to "an environmental movement that is happy with capitalism", and urges greens to join him (Have the greens lost their way?
, 2 July). "Is the green movement a leftwing, anti-capitalist movement? " your article asks. Human Rights. Humantrafficking. Human Trafficking. Human trafficking is a crime that often goes underreported due to its covert nature, various misconceptions about its definition, and a lack of awareness about its indicators on the local level.
The materials below outline general information about human trafficking and include documents that discuss basic background information, past trafficking cases, potential red flags and other relevant resources to better comprehend the complexity of this crime. These materials aim to raise awareness about human trafficking and educate individuals and communities about and how to recognize this crime and play an active role in the anti-human trafficking movement...
Materials Included Below: Slavery – Not For Sale: End Human Trafficking and Slavery. Human trafficking online, human rights policies, Human Trafficking Search. Human Trafficking & Slavery. HumanTrafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking in the East Asia Pacific Region. Japan crisis: 10 worst nuclear disasters in history. Top 5 Worst Nuclear Disasters. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Surviving Disaster (BBC Documentary series) - Part 1 Short-Term and Long-Term Health Risks of Nuclear-Power-Plant Accidents. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Byelorussia Short-Term and Long-Term Health Risks of Nuclear-Power-Plant Accidents John P. Christodouleas, M.D., M.P.H., Robert D. Forrest, C.H.P., Christopher G. Ainsley, Ph.D., Zelig Tochner, M.D., Stephen M. April 20, 2011 (10.1056/NEJMra1103676) On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Japan.
Reactor Accidents and the Release of Radioactive Materials In a nuclear power plant, the fuel, an isotope of either uranium or plutonium, undergoes fission to produce the energy that is used to heat water and turn steam-driven turbine generators. Long Term Effects on Humans. Long after the acute effects of radiation have subsided, radiation damage continues to produce a wide range of physical problems.
These effects- including leukemia, cancer, and many others- appear two, three, even ten years later. Blood Disorders According to Japanese data, there was an increase in anemia among persons exposed to the bomb. Environmental Issues. Save the Planet. Green organisations. Deforestation « “Pakistan is located at the junction of the world’s three largest mountain ranges— Karakorum, Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The region has a total coverage area of 3500 sq.km and Pakistan hosts 8 out of 14 highest peaks of the world. A large part of the area remains covered by piles of snow round the year. Scientists and climate advocators call the region the Third Pole outside of the polar region. An inventory study conducted by International Center for Integrated Mountain Development(ICIMOD) in the five Hindu Kush-Himalayan(HKH) countries of Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, has identified a total of 15,003 glaciers, covering an area of about 33,344 sq.km, and 8,790 glacial lakes, of which 203 have been identified as potentially dangerous. Endangered Rainforest Animals. Indonesian rainforest Sumatra forests destroyed Extinctions Tribal People The WE News Archives. Forces Behind the Loss of Tropical Rainforests. Bear Bile Farming. The Bear Bile Business Jackie Chan PSA on Bear Bile Farming
Dancing Bears Chinas Cruel Act Called Bear Bile Farming Tiger bones, bear bile, and pangolin scales – Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre. Traditional Chinese medicine exploits animal ingredients from hundreds of species, ranging from ground-up rhino horns and tiger bones to whole dried carcasses of more obscure genera like geckos and sea horses.
Here we take a closer look at three of the most notoriously overtaxed animal groups in traditional Chinese medicine, broken down from data on illegal confiscations in the U.S., China and Vietnam. Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest - The Evils of Deforestation Palm Oil and Rainforest Deforestation. Can carbon credits from REDD compete with palm oil?
(03/30/2009) Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is increasingly seen as a compelling way to conserve tropical forests while simultaneously helping mitigate climate change, preserving biodiversity, and providing sustainable livelihoods for rural people. But to become a reality REDD still faces a number of challenges, not least of which is economic competition from other forms of land use. In Indonesia and Malaysia, the biggest competitor is likely oil palm, which is presently one of the most profitable forms of land use.
Rainbow Warrior ordered out of Indonesia - rainforest destruction allowed to stay. (Watch 'Saving Sumatra') Being a part of a Greenpeace ship tour is never boring.
Generally, you expect the unexpected, and then you're surprised. But even by ship tour standards, the Rainbow Warrior's recent 'tour' of Indonesia was an interesting one. Orangutan Crisis – Sumatran Orangutan Society. Sumatran Orangutans - on the edge of extinction The Sumatran orangutan is classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, the World Conservation Union.
Indonesian Government Complicit in Rainforest Destruction: Report. Indonesian Government Complicit in Rainforest Destruction: Report Stephen Schaber | May 31, 2011 The Indonesian government is facilitating the destruction of protected forests, according to a cable news report aired on Tuesday. “[Logging and mining companies are] legally destroying the forests since government officials simply gave them a license to do so,” Al Jazeera correspondent Step Vassen says in the special report. Rainforest Advocates. Air Pollution Recycling Facts - A Recycling Revolution. The following list of recycling facts are among some of the most thought provoking that I have found.
These recycling facts have been compiled from various sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented here are exact. Recycling 101. Dirty Energy. Big Oil. Tar Sands: Counting the Cost. During 2010, ShareAction worked with investors and NGOs to challenge the development of "tar sands" deposits by oil & gas companies.
What are tar sands? Tar sands (also known as ‘oil sands' or ‘extra heavy oil'), are a type of naturally occurring bitumen deposit, requiring a complex, energy-intensive, and high emission-producing process to produce oil in a useable form. The world's largest deposits occur in Canada and Venezuela. The Canadian and Venezuelan deposits contain about 3.6 trillion barrels of oil, compared to 1.75 trillion barrels of conventional oil worldwide. ShareAction is focusing on the most developed location of tar sands extraction in Alberta, Canada, which covers about 140,000 square kilometres (more than the total area of England and Wales).
More information on tar sands. The Harm the Tar Sands Will Do. The project's expected costs to our forests, water and air. Oil sands open pit mining in Alberta's Athabasca region. The environmental consequences of oil production from Alberta's tar sands are major, beginning with its effect on climate change. North America's transition to oil from the tar sands not only perpetuates, but actually worsens, emissions of greenhouse gas pollution from oil consumption. While the end products from conventional oil and tar sands are the same (mostly transportation fuels), producing a barrel of synthetic crude oil from the tar sands releases up to three times more greenhouse gas pollution than conventional oil. This is a result of the huge amount of energy (primarily from burning natural gas) required to generate the heat needed to extract bitumen from the tar sands and upgrade it into synthetic crude.
Realities of a Tar Sands Oil Spill, One Year Later. From Wildlife Promise The pipeline that burst during the Enbridge tar sands oil spill in Michigan - July 2010 Around this time last year, I made an emergency trip home to Battle Creek, Mich., after hearing reports of a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River. The oil disaster gushed nearly 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River watershed.
Sand Dollars: Will Tar-Sands Oil Undermine U.S. Alternative-Energy Development? Dear EarthTalk: What is “tar sands oil” and what is the controversy over possibly building a pipeline for it from Canada into the United States? —Bill Berkley, Omaha, Neb. Tar sands oil (or “tar sands”) is slang for bituminous sand, a mixture of sand, clay, water and an extremely gooey form of petroleum known as bitumen, which resembles tar in appearance. Extracting commercially viable crude oil from tar sands is especially difficult because the thick and sticky mixture won’t flow unless it is heated or diluted with other hydrocarbons.
Turning the extracted bitumen into liquid fuel requires large inputs of energy; the process also uses, pollutes and wastes large amounts of fresh water. James Hansen: Obama's Canada trip defines our critical carbon moment. President Barack Obama has committed to fight global warming. In just his first few weeks in office, the president has already taken steps to move America in a direction that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Oil sands polluting Canadian river system: study. Great Bear Rainforest. Alberta’s Tar Sands Nighmare: Environmental Catastrophe Looms. What the frack? US natural gas drilling method contaminates water. A controversial new method of natural-gas drilling, embraced rapidly across the US, has contaminated water supplies with radioactive waste, according to an investigation by the New York Times.
The paper said internal documents from the Environmental Protection Agency and state regulators showed that the dangers to the public from the drilling method – hydraulic fracturing – were greater than previously understood. Ecology. Dolphin slaughter turns sea red as Japan hunting season returns. Fisheries workers guide what appear to be pilot whales at a cove in Taiji, Japan.
Dolphin Massacre Bretcarr. Dolphin Slaughter in Japan - Advocacy For Animals. The picturesque Japanese fishing village of Taiji (in southwestern Honshu) has become notorious in recent years for its annual dolphin hunt, in which some 2,500 dolphins and other small cetaceans are killed in coastal waters between September and April. Using a technique called drive fishing, hunters in a line of motorized boats create a “wall of sound” between the dolphins and the open ocean by banging on metal poles lowered into the water; the poles have bell-shaped devices at one end to amplify the sound. The dolphins, who rely on sonar to navigate, are immediately disoriented and terrified and swim frantically to shore to escape the noise. Dolphins and Whales. Bs1999bs's favorite websites. Frack and ruin: the rise of hydraulic fracturing. Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking. The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University. Fracking Linked To Methane In Flammable Drinking Water For First Time In Scientific Study.
Olivia Newton-John attacks gas industry. Olivia Newton-John is alarmed at the way gas is extracted from the ground. Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas Pollutes Water Wells. Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania—thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction. Outgoing Woodside boss against 'coal seam fracking' On Fracking and Human Folly - Environment. Alberta woman blames natural gas fracking for flaming well water. Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking. Fluids From Hydraulic Fracturing Killed Trees, Study Says. European Union report says ban fracking. All about Fracking in NZ. Activists sick of 'spin' over fracking.
Gas 'fracking' alarm sounded. ‘Fracking’ for oil possible on the Coast. ‘No’ to fracking on East Coast. Otago Daily Times Online News Keep Up to Date Local, National New Zealand & International News. GASLAND Trailer 2010 Pittsburgh’s drinking water is radioactive, thanks to fracking. Only question is, how much? NY Times Report: Fracked Water Thousands of Times More Dangerous Than They're Telling Us.
'Fracking' threatens WA water resources. Study links flammable tap water to fracking. Controversial ''fracking'' technique threatens Sydney's water. Methane on Tap: Study Links Pollution to Gas Drilling. Fracking Has Injected Millions of Gallons of Toxins into US Soil. Mass Bird & Fish Deaths Caused by Hydraulic Fracking & Earthquakes? Werner's Cairns blog: Fracking – the ominous new word in the English language. Flammable Methane in Drinking Water Near Fracking Wells, Study Finds. Editorial: The Facts About Fracking. Fracking can release cancer chemicals, experts warn. Fracked gas is only cheap because extractors do not clean up after themselves.
China risks cost of fracking to exploit shale gas. Ncerned-about-the-use-of-fracking-in-nz.asx (video/x-ms-asf Object) Banks & Money & Uni's unordered. Occupy Wall Street.