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Witness - To The Last Drop   video
Environment  (tags: Witness, To The Last Drop, Aljazeera, Canada, Alberta, Tar Sands, dirty oil, cancer, Fort Chipewyan, oil sands, USA, First Nations )

Dandelion
- 177 days ago - youtube.com
A Faustian pact with the American energy consumer, the Canadian Gov't is doing everything it can to protect the dirtiest oil project ever known. Fort Chipewyan has experienced spike in cancer & dire studies have revealed the true consequences of dirty oil
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Asbestos Shingles Once a Money-Maker, Now a Deadly Reminder
Environment  (tags: medicine, treatment, cancer, health, health, Sustainabililty, greenliving, healthconditions )

Ken
- 436 days ago - asbestos.net
Many building material manufacturers flocked to asbestos as an effective product that could prevent fire damage and provide effective insulation. Now, we suffer the effects--measured by # of lives taken from Asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma.
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CANCER THREAT TO FARM WORKERS: Methyl Iodide: A Nasty Pesticide Explained
Environment  (tags: protection, pollution, humans, pesticides, Methyl Iodide, farmworkers, cancer, health, healthconditions, politics, environment, destruction, ecosystems, green )

Cal
- 625 days ago - motherjones.com
It's carcinogenic, but Since it is applied to soil before plants even go into the ground, it poses little risk to consumers of strawberries. But for the farmworkers who apply it and the people who live near treated fields, it's a different story..
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The True Costs of Nuclear Power
Environment  (tags: animals, cancer, climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, humans, iodine 131, nature, Nuclear power, politics, pollution, radia-active, research, science )

Kit
- 803 days ago - slate.com
Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station appear to have lost their cooling capacity. Engineers are flooding the plant with seawater--effectively destroying it--then letting off radioactive steam.
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'Climate Change Could Give You Cancer': UN Report Warns of Deadly Pollutants From Glaciers
Environment  (tags: Melting glaciers, UN report, pollution, cancer, health )

Nancy
- 898 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are releasing cancer-causing pollutants into the air and oceans, scientists say.
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Coal From Mass Extinction Era Linked to Lung Cancer Mystery
Environment  (tags: Earth, Era, Cancer )

Nancy
- 1230 days ago - sciencedaily.com
he volcanic eruptions thought responsible for Earth's largest mass extinction -- which killed more than 70 percent of plants and animals 250 million years ago -- is still taking lives today.
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A New Demand for Uranium Power Brings Concerns for Navajo Groups
Environment  (tags: Native Americans, uranium mining, cancer, kidney disease )

Lone
- 1307 days ago - washingtonpost.com
ACOMA, N.M.-- Uranium from the Grants Mineral Belt running under rugged peaks and Indian pueblos of New Mexico was a source of electric power and military might in decades past, providing fuel for reactors and atomic bombs
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We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW!
Environment  (tags: industrial, agriculture, animals, fda, factory, farming, birds, environment, ecosystems, habitat, destruction, nature, humans, pollution, oceans, methane, CO2, water, wells, fertilizer, poison, cancer, pesticides )

Tom
- 1466 days ago - opednews.com
Taxpayers want government to enforce regulations and create rules to limit excess and greed in banking, insurance, housing, and on Wall Street. Let's not forget to regulate industrial agriculture. It is one of our most polluting and dangerous industries.
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The Real Cost of Smoking (Smoking Cessation #1)   video
Environment  (tags: smoking, quit, cigarette, smoke, cough, throat, cancer, lung, marlboro, ash, doctor, asthma, cold, addiction, nicotine, tobacco, medicine, health, beauty, fitness, home, advice, pollution, suffering )

Gregory
- 1651 days ago - youtube.com
Need another reason to quit smoking? Smoking causes one out of five deaths in America. Once you understand the real costs of smoking, you'll be ready to put down that cigarette! If you cannot breath nothing else matters!
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Friends of the Earth - Toxic Emergency in Greece! - Take Action
Environment  (tags: pollution, water, environment, ecosystems, HabitatDestruction, habitat, Death, Greece, chromium, cancer )

Thunderr
- 2021 days ago - demaction.org
The Asopos river in Greece is providing toxic drinking water to tens of thousands of people,who are getting sick and dying at alarming rates.With over 400,000 times the amount of Chromium 6 that should be in groundwater,the river is running red death rate
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People Living Near Power Lines Up To Five Times More Likely To Develop Cancer: Study
Environment  (tags: electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic radiation, cancer, power lines )

Social
- 2102 days ago - thedailygreen.com
Australian researchers add more fuel to the fiery debate over the safety of electromagnetic radiation. Although this latest study is correlation, not causation, researchers found that for every year patients lived within 50 meters of a power line, risk of
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HEALTH, WORLD PEACE AND THE VEGETARIAN DIET the High Cost of Flesh Eating
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, pollution, water, cancer )

AniTa
- 2251 days ago - nexusnovel.wordpress.com
The heavily contaminated runoff and sewage from thousands of slaughterhouses and feedlots are a major source of pollution of the nation's rivers and streams. The fresh water resources of this planet are becoming polluted and depleted, and the meat industr
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