water pollution

Just more evidence of how safely uranium is handled around the world.

Residents and activists from the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí travelled to Toronto to tell the shareholders of a Canadian mining company that their investments are at risk because the billion-dollar Cerro San Pedro gold and silver mine is illegal and environmentally unsafe. "We want the Canadian people to be aware their investments have serious environmental and social damages in other countries. The mining is right next to monuments of national importance."

A number of influential scientists and experts in Asian studies now say that control and management of an even more vital resource – the Tibetan Plateau’s vast supply of freshwater – is also emerging at the center of the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet.

Scary facts about water quality.

A discussion of the problems with fresh water supplies around the US and the world, and what measures, small and large, people are taking to help conserve water.

Increase In Ethanol Production From Corn Could Significantly Harm Water Quality- a description of damage expected to water from increased runoff of agricultural chemicals and increased water use, both associated with corn ethanol.

Frogs, because of the nature of how they breed and reproduce are often the first to go when there is pollution in the environment. Their thin permeable skin allows pollutants to easily pass into their systems.