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“The Bush administration doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the environment in the Arctic, but they do care about protecting their national security.” — Michael Byers, author of Intent for a Nation: What Is Canada For? December 12, 2007, ArcticNet conference, Collingwood, Ontario

Noah Richler’s “Rock Bottom" excerpted for free.

An arsenal of Facts and Figures about the arctic and climate change to end the battle of the Gore Incovenient Truth fact or fiction debates.

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A computer-controlled system of multicolored lights shines down on a satellite photo of the L.A. basin; each color represents a different airborne pollutant. If regional air pollution levels are low, the lights get brighter; if levels increase, they grow dim. Every 15 minutes, the computer receives data from a website that records local air quality and the structure fills with fog, diffusing the lights in a cloud of haze

Nairobi—The Dandora Municipal Dumping Site is a heap of world-class toxicity festering on the east edge of Nairobi. Formerly a rock quarry, it became the city’s domestic, medical, and industrial waste basket in 1973; it filled up by the late eighties and has been overflowing ever since, these days at the rate of 2,000 tonnes of unfiltered garbage a day.