Are hurricanes racist? It seems like a ridiculous question, but why is it that, no matter the type of natural disaster, it seems to always affect Third World countries far more significantly than First World ones? Certainly this has been most recently exemplified by the hugely destructive tropical cyclones that slam tropical and sub-tropical regions […]
According to a new report, compiled by “greenpeace” from various studies on air pollutants and resultant diseases, air pollution in India is responsible for more than 1.2 million premature deaths annually. India ranks with China as having the worst air quality in the world, choked with pollutants in many regions by the heavy industry which […]
NATO is now facing a lawsuit coming from the Serbian government regarding the use of depleted uranium munitions in 1999, during the Balkans war. The result of the weapons use, calculated to have left about 15 tons of dangerous contaminants, have been devastating with an acute upward trend in the prevalence of cancers among Serbians […]
