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Humans are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a UN report said today. The current pace of extinctions was an estimated 1000 times faster than historical rates, jeopardizing a global goal set at a 2002 UN summit in Johannesburg "to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss."
Well, as long as someone's handling it.
US miner Doe Run Co., whose Peruvian metals smelter is blamed for poisoning children, on Monday promised to cut its toxic emissions by the end of 2009 to comply with Peru's environmental rules. Privately owned Doe Run had been seeking an additional five years through 2011 to meet a government-mandated environmental plan, known as PAMA, to build a $100 million sulfuric acid plant and capture harmful emissions it pumps out every day. The La Oroya smelter, which processes 10 metals including silver, was built in 1922 and chugs out more than 600 tons of sulfur dioxide a day, above Peru's legal limit, according to company data. In a study released last year, scientists from St. Louis University in the US said that 97% of the children in La Oroya under age 6 have harmful levels of lead in their blood.
If sighs could kill, you'd be endangered.
Some 300 million Africans lack access to safe drinking water, and 313 million lack access to basic sanitation. Africa has an estimated population of over 800 million. In small towns and urban centers, going to collect water is now not even an option for many women, as water vendors are preventing women and girls from even reaching a spring. Water is becoming a commoditized industry.
What isn't?
Well, as long as someone's handling it.
US miner Doe Run Co., whose Peruvian metals smelter is blamed for poisoning children, on Monday promised to cut its toxic emissions by the end of 2009 to comply with Peru's environmental rules. Privately owned Doe Run had been seeking an additional five years through 2011 to meet a government-mandated environmental plan, known as PAMA, to build a $100 million sulfuric acid plant and capture harmful emissions it pumps out every day. The La Oroya smelter, which processes 10 metals including silver, was built in 1922 and chugs out more than 600 tons of sulfur dioxide a day, above Peru's legal limit, according to company data. In a study released last year, scientists from St. Louis University in the US said that 97% of the children in La Oroya under age 6 have harmful levels of lead in their blood.
If sighs could kill, you'd be endangered.
Some 300 million Africans lack access to safe drinking water, and 313 million lack access to basic sanitation. Africa has an estimated population of over 800 million. In small towns and urban centers, going to collect water is now not even an option for many women, as water vendors are preventing women and girls from even reaching a spring. Water is becoming a commoditized industry.
What isn't?
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