Misc News of the Day
• Over at that Maryland pond, Sunday is the day set for poisoning the pond, in an attempt to kill off the Northern Snakehead that were dumped there and have since started to breed.
• Greenpeace is calling for action to reduce a thick brown haze that covers several square kilometers of South Asia. The United Nations Environmental Programme has issued a report on the cloud, its causes and effects, for use at the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development. President Bush does not plan to attend the summit, and will send Colin Powell instead.
• The big news this week was West Nile Virus, which just reached Colorado, where it has affected some horses but taken no human victims yet.
• And in yet more news about the weather, there are floods in Europe, more floods in China, while the the droughts in India have been relieved somewhat by local rains. In the United States, wildfires continue to flourish.
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