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Mexico quake's homeless gather in tent village, toll reaches 286

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Desperate residents left homeless by Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in a generation gathered in a tent village in the south of the capital on Friday, as the death toll climbed to 286 and signs of exhaustion gripped…

Hurricane Maria lashes Turks and Caicos after killing 30 people

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Maria lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday after destroying homes, causing widespread flooding, crippling economies and killing at least 30 people on Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Maria was the…

Illinois' vanishing bugs and why it matters to Earth.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News A beast with black wings buzzed close and darted past us into the trees: What was that? Was that it? That had to be it. Mallory Sbelgio, citizen scientist, entomologist in training, defender of rare insects,…

Canada deploys 'multi-pronged' lobbying to counter Trump's EPA cuts.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News Canada has deployed a “multi-pronged” lobbying strategy against the Trump administration’s budget over concerns that proposed U.S. cuts will put a “fundamental” component of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan in jeopardy, newly-released federal briefing documents…

Move over malaria: Mosquitoes carrying Zika, dengue may thrive in warmer Africa.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News Hotter weather and migration to cities may make different diseases the scourge of the future in Africa, scientists say By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From deadly droughts and destroyed crops to…

EPA trains employees on leaks, presentation shows.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received training this week to prevent leaks to the media of classified and sensitive information as part of a White House-directed crackdown across federal agencies to…

Far away from any witnesses, my small town is being poisoned by fracking waste.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Alison Stine | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News Fracking On the Ground: reporting from all corners of America In a tiny south-eastern Ohio town in the Appalachian foothills, the Hazel Ginsburg Well is holding waste from out-of-state fracking operations – a sludge of toxic…

Hurricane Maria passed, but for two women in Puerto Rico, the terror was only just beginning.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Sandhya Somashekhar | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News By Samantha Schmidt, Sandhya Somashekhar and Katie Zezima, LEVITTOWN, PUERTO RICO — The winds had eased, the debris was no longer soaring through the air, the chaos had subsided. Elizabeth Serrano Roldan decided to lie in…

Greenpeace report: Big Western brands polluting oceans with cheap plastic in Philippines.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News How has Singapore changed over the years? Every fortnight, The Straits Times will feature old and new images of a place in Singapore. Serangoon Road in 1954 and today » This is the last instalment of Singapore Slider…

New study shows air pollution may be causing kidney disease in the US.

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Robert Ferris | 0 Comments

From Environmental Health News Add kidney disease to the list of health problems associated with air pollution. A team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System found an association between…