Toxic rocket
fuel
found in lettuce
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Hundreds of species
pressured by
global warming
Stanford, California, Jan. 2 (ENS)— Hundreds of
plant and animal species around the world are feeling the impacts
of global warming, although the most dramatic effects may not
be felt for decades, according to new research from a Stanford
University team. They predict that a rapid temperature rise,
together with other environmental pressures, "could easily
disrupt the connectedness among species" and lead to numerous
extinctions.
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Toxic rocket
fuel
found in lettuce
Oakland, California, Jan. 2 (ENS)— Perchlorate,
an ingredient in rocket fuel which impairs the thyroid’s
ability to take up iodide and produce hormones, has contaminated
almost 300 drinking water sources and farm wells in California
and sources in at least 15 other states. This new information
is found in test data and documents obtained by Environmental
Working Group (EWG), a non-profit environmental research organization
with offices in Oakland and Washington, DC.
Contamination has affected the Colorado River from near Las
Vegas to the Mexican border. The river is the primary or sole
source of irrigation water for farms in California, Arizona
and Nevada that grow the great majority of the lettuce sold
in the US during the winter.
Eating lettuce or other vegetables grown in fields irrigated
by the Colorado River may expose consumers to a larger dose
of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
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