The headline might sound dramatic, but the actual situation is a worse than I could fit in such a small space. Petroperu managed to have several major leaks during the last week of June, but news of the disaster took several days to reach
The death toll from Israeli violence in Gaza approached 1000 Palestinians by the 26th of July; the number is increasing, according to reports from hospitals and emergency care workers and activists there. The United Nations estimated that 80% of the dead were civilians, including a lot
More than 630 deaths have been recorded so far, as Israel continues its brutal assault on Gaza. Israel launched its offensive on the 8th of July, and according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, more than 25% of Palestinians killed have been children. On the 23rd
Even though few of us in the “civilized” world notice it: there is an ever-dwindling supply of clean water on this planet. That which remains continues to be polluted, used in industry, and sold in little plastic bottles. Water is the most important and
After witnessing the killing of four Palestinian boys of the same family by Israeli forces on a the beach of Gaza, as they played soccer, NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin (who has received advanced glorification for his courageous and innovative coverage of the war) was ordered by NBC
Since the beginning of 2014, the plight of the Eritrean refugees fleeing oppression and violence in their homeland has begun to be internationally recognized. The problem is so grave, and runs so deep, that often Egyptian police return escaped victims directly to their kidnappers,
The short answer is: MSG is bad for you. Still, you can forgive some for not yet knowing this as the evidence of the negative effects of monosodium glutamate have only come to full fruition within the last 10 years. A meta-analysis published in 2006
US border patrol agents encountered approximately 19,500 unaccompanied children crossing the US border in the fiscal year of 2009 (beginning October 2008). Since then, the annual total has more than doubled to 57,525. To put this increase in context, the total in 2013 was only 27,884,
As brutal rocket fire exchange is going on between Israeli armed forces and Palestinian resistance groups on the fourth day of “Operation Protective Edge”, the death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza has risen to more 100, according to Palestinian and international sources.
Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, announced last week that an uncontracted tribe emerged from the rainforest near the Brazil-Peruvian border and made peaceful contact on June 29th with Brazilian government scientists. Villagers from a settled indigenous community, know as the Ashaninka, radioed Brazilian authorities
