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World’s most pristine waters are polluted by US Navy human waste
Posted by Independent: Cahal Milmo on March 15th, 2014
Independent: The American military has poured hundreds of tonnes of human sewage and waste water into a protected coral lagoon on the British-owned base of Diego Garcia over three decades in breach of environmental rules, The Independent can reveal.
The Indian Ocean base on the Chagos Islands has been one of the world’s most isolated and controversial military installations since Britain forcibly removed hundreds of islanders in the early 1970s, abandoning them to destitution, to make way for US forces including...
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Water, water… nowhere
Posted by Independent: Cahal Milmo on February 21st, 2012
Independent: On the River Kennet in Berkshire conservationists are resorting to stunning fish using electric probes and rescuing them from the dwindling trickle of water. Farmers across East Anglia are considering ditching entire crops while at nature reserves springs have dried up, leaving creatures from water voles to marsh harriers struggling to find food.
It might sound like a picture from the height of a dry summer but this was the reality across a swathe of England in late winter yesterday after 18 months...