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POPSOil Bubbles Point to Eco Disaster in Paradise
Collapse danger "What is frightening is that the Hoyo appears to be leaking from an area where oil was stored," Jeffery told New Scientist. Nor is the Hoyo Maru the only ship to be leaking oil – although for now, it is the only tanker which has been seen to leak. Jeffery and his colleagues are now seeking Japanese historians and shipping experts who could remotely assess the contents of the Hoyo's oil storage tanks. If the ship is found to contain large amounts of diesel, this will need to be pumped out in order to avoid severe damage to the local biodiversity and economy. The situation is likely to repeat itself around the Pacific over coming years. "A lot of these wrecks are in areas where the communities just don't have the resources to deal with oil pollution," warns Jeffery. In 2003, the US government pumped 10 million litres of fuel from the sunken hull of the USS Mississinewa, a US tanker that was destroyed by the Japanese in 1944 in the Western Pacific.
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POPScoconutoil.com: learn the truth about coconut oil The more reading and research I do, the more it seems that we've been sold a bundle of lies about food. How many things that we were told were horrible seem to actually be fine? Butter, eggs, saturated fats, etc. And the things that were supposed to be healthy are really not. Vegetable shortening/margarine/other hydrogenated fats, canola oil, fat-free/sugar-free stuff, non-fat dairy products... I find myself leaning more and more towards Michael Pollan's advice: If your grandmother* wouldn't recognize it, you shouldn't eat it. *Your grandmother, or somebody else's – I don't think either of my grandmothers would have recognized fish sauce, chana dal, or pickled ginger, but if she'd been Thai, Indian, or Japanese, they would have.
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POPSPygmies go all Hi-Tec Dr Jerome Lewis is a British anthropologist from University College London who has devoted much of the last 20 years studying the pygmy groups who live in the forests of the Congo basin. Dr Lewis together with the UK-based software company Helveta, Forest People's Programme, and the Cameroonian Centre for Environment and Development, are working together to pioneer the use of hand-held computers among the Baka pygmies. Now, when the villagers go into the forest to hunt and gather, they carry a GPS on which they can record the exact location of their hunting grounds, sacred trees and important rivers. "Before, if somebody wanted to come in and chop down one of their trees, there was no record, no proof that it ever existed on their lands. Now we have the proof," explains Dr Lewis.
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POPSFish Spas I like the idea of using nature to heal,but this seems a little creepy.
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POPSMost ridiculous British laws 10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (2 per cent)
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POPS6 great exposures
could not clip it so here are the photos descriptions: 1. a boy dives into floodwaters in la barquita in the sabana perdida community just outside Santo Domingo. Oct 31 tropical storm noel drenched the Bahamas. 2. Theo Orecchio, 4, dressed as the Tin Man, rests next to his mother, Elyse Orecchio, dressed as Dorothy, before the 34th annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 31 3. A newborn Rothschild giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) is pictured together with its mother in an enclosure at the zoo of Rapperswil, Switzerland, Wendesday, Oct. 31, 2007. The yet nameless baby was born Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. 4.Two men fish on the foggy Ohio River, Monday, Oct. 29, 2007, near a marina in Cincinnati. 5. Migrant workers pose for a wedding photo at a demolished site in Chongqing municipality October 31, 2007. Five couples took free wedding photos offered by a real estate developer to mark the local Migrant Workers' Day, which falls on November 4 6.
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