November 2009
(23rd November 2009)
The New York Times is doing a series on polluted waterways. It includes this comprehensive piece on the city's sewers. Nothing much that I didn't know - except the lovely detail about the cable channels - and nothing much new happening either. They will overflow until they collapse.
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(12th November 2009)
Scientific American looks at the most fascinating topic of phosphorus.
(5th November 2009)
Retired Marine officer Rick Dove hunts for chicken shit violations - that's excessive piles of manure that can contaminate the environment, not poxy law-breaking - with a Cessna and a telephoto lens. Livestock and chickens produce 500 million tons of shit a year, or three times more than humans, according to the EPA. Some of that ends up polluting Chesapeake Bay, hence Rick Dove's ...