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Monday, February 18th, 2008
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Superbugs - 25 years ago only about 3 percent of the deadly staph bacteria were antibiotic resistant. Today over 60 percent are resistant to antibiotics. |
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Unclean Water - 1 out of 5 people in the world lacks access to uncontaminated or clean drinking water. |
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Epidemics - Annually there are 300 million cases of malaria and 90 percent of those cases are in Africa. |
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Air Pollution - 500,000 people are killed every year in India alone by 2 mile thick toxic cloud that covers the region. |
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Famine - 12 children die every minute worldwide due to hunger. |
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Dying Oceans - All species of commercially caught fish could decline to less than 10 percent of 1950 levels. This may happen by 2048. |
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Global Warming - The melting of Greenland’s land-based ice cap into the Atlantic ocean will raise the sea level worldwide by 23 feet, putting many of these coastal cities at risk by the year 2050. |
Eastern Europe Starting To Turn Green
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
The Cold War in Easter Europe created a border area between Eastern and Western called the “death strip”. During that time, the area were lightly populated with armaments, such as tanks, jeeps and heavy weaponry and also lots and lots of communist and capalist soldiers on both sides of the border.
Melting Antartica Ice
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008If you think that the ice in the Antartica will be there for a long time, think again. According to a recent environmental report in the Christian Science Monitor, the ice floating in the waters of the Antartica are definitely turning thin. This might sound not like much, but when you realize that the ice in the Antartica currently slows the speed with which the continent’s inland glaciers are sliding into the sea.
The Modern World Is Setup To Destroy The Earth’s Environment
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008