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Environmental Graffiti
Environmental Graffiti is a UK-based environmental blog, focussed on providing the most useful environmental knowledge and debate: from policymakers and celebrities to guest bloggers.
www.environmentalgraffiti.com
Website: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/
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“The Largest Man-Made Environmental Catastrophe”
August 31, 2007 06:54 PM - Mary King, Environmental Graffiti
The annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society was rocked yesterday by the announcement by an international team of scientists that arsenic contamination in drinking water is "the largest identified man-made environmental catastrophe". A presentation by Cambridge University researchers revealed that 60 countries over 5 continents have been affected by arsenic contamination, with South East Asia, particularly Bangladesh, as the worst off. The health of 140 million people is threatened by the presence of arsenic, mostly in developing countries.
Japan’s Iriomote Cat Headed for Annihilation
August 31, 2007 06:20 PM - Mary King, Environmental Graffiti
Japan’s Iriomote cat has been classified as critically endangered by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment and put on the Red List of threatened species. The cat, found exclusively on the island of Iriomote in the Ryukyu archipelago between Japan and Taiwan, was only discovered 40 years ago.