Fresh Catch of the Day in Boston: Mustard Gas
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By , on June 14th, 2010 4 comments   Dumping   , , , ,  

A clam boat in Massachusetts dredged up a not-so-welcome surprise last week – 2 tanks of Mustard Gas. One crew member is reported as getting sick from the exposure, confirmed by diagnosis, blood and urine tests, before they tossed the canisters back into the sea. The Coast Guard is now looking for them. Now, one . . . → Read More: Fresh Catch of the Day in Boston: Mustard Gas

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Warfare Ecology
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By , on March 12th, 2009 5 comments   Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, New Research   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology.  As the authors state “among human activities causing ecological change,  ware is both intensive and far-reaching. Yet environmental research related to warfare is limited in depth and fragmented by discipline.”  The paper is . . . → Read More: Warfare Ecology

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