AS THE ARCTIC MELTS: WORRIED ABOUT RISING SEA LEVELS? BETTER WORRY TOO ABOUT RAPID ACIDIFICATION OF ARCTIC WATERS. New scientific report, reviewed by BBC, documents the rise in pH levels in Arctic region as CO-2 emissions are absorbed in the cold waters of a polar meltdown. The degree of the environmental threat from this [...]
HANDCUFFING KIDS FOR NO REASON. This is the allegation of two whistle-blowing police officers against the practices of the New York Police Department in a class action suit against the city charging racial profiling. They claim that their supervisors maintained quotas of the number of arrests and summonses they were expected to execute in [...]
SOMETHING IS EATING AWAY AT THE SEA SHELLS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. British oceanographic report publicizes the fact that Antarctic waters are showing ominous indications that acidification of oceans resulting from CO-2 contamination is destroying the shells which are the basis of the marine and bird food chain. (Common Dreams) ` FIFTEEN ASIAN NATIONS [...]
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