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Fake ‘addendum’ by conservative group tries to undo federal climate report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 22nd, 2012
Daily Climate: A new "addendum" to be released as soon as this week purports to update with the latest science a 2009 federal assessment on the impacts to the United States of climate change.
The addendum matches the layout and design of the original, published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program: Cover art, "key message" sections, table of contents are all virtually identical, down to the chapter heads, fonts and footnotes.
But the new report comes from the conservative Washington, D.C.-based Cato...
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El Salvador mulls total ban on mining
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 22nd, 2012
Mongabay: On hot days the broken stone and dried up silt from the San Sebastian mine in Eastern El Salvador bake in the sun. The slew of refuse is freckled with rock stained bright blue with cyanide, open to the elements that on rainier days will wash it downhill into the Rio San Sebastian below.
The openings of passages into the mine dot the mountainside, and further downhill a bright orange stream with a chemical stench flows into another. The American Commerce Group ceased operating here in 1999 but...
Haiti cholera ‘started at UN camp’
Posted by BBC: Mark Doyle on October 22nd, 2012
BBC: New evidence has emerged about the alleged role of United Nations troops in causing a cholera epidemic in the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
A top US cholera specialist, Dr Daniele Lantagne, said after studying new scientific data that it is now "most likely" the source of the outbreak was a camp for recently-arrived UN soldiers from Nepal - a country where cholera is widespread.
Dr Lantagne was employed by the UN itself in 2011 as one of the world's pre-eminent experts on the disease.
The new...