Playing dirty Games

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The site at Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia, where the stadium for the 2000 Olympic Games is under construction is heavily contaminated, as it was previously used by chemical companies such as Union Carbide. Plans for the site have been revised in order to avoid a particularly contaminated area, but almost nothing has been done to remove pollution from the parts of the site that are to be used. Environmental campaigners believe that the Olympic Co-ordination Authority has misled the public about the extent of its commitment to environmental issues.

Australia, New capacity, new plant construction, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, Recreational Buildings, Construction, Design and construction, 2000 AD, Stadiums, Recreational facilities, Sydney, Australia, Olympics

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Poison lingers in the system

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ICI announced its anti-malaria mosquito product, Icon, but the Lobel Chemical Corp of New York refuted the inference that DDT was unsuitable with corroboration from Dr Pushpa Herath of WHO. WHO states that DDT is the cheapest effective insecticide despite its Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (Whopes), set up in 1970, which launched six insect control compounds. These synthetic pyrethroids are effective in agriculture and public health without building up in the food chain.

Usage, Product development, Prevention, Records and correspondence, Malaria, World Health Organization, DDT (Insecticide), DDT, Pesticides, Pyrethroids, Icon (Pesticide)

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Cloudy issues, burning answers

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Johann Georg Goldammer is head of the Fire Ecology and Biomass Burning Research Group at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He will set light to the bush in South Africa's Kruger National Park to collect data for an international project for the Southern Africa Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (Safari). It will investigate the effect on world atmosphere. Vegetation fires give off huge amounts of chemicals.

Research, Fires, Fire ecology

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