A bit of news

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From: Robert Granholm
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:00

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A couple of items from recent news reports that affect environments.

1) The Food and Agricultural Organization (UN) reports that large locust 
populations are hatching and migrating in NW Africa, Sudan, and S Arabian 
peninsula. Heavier than usual rains have produced optimum breeding 
condiditions, and have hampered eradication efforts.

2) The Ukrane government has warned that the #4 reactor at Chernobal is still 
very dangerous. The cement casing is cracking. 125,000 people died nine years 
ago when the reactor blew up. The current danger seems to be to the nearby 
watercourse, which flows into the Black Sea, potentially endangering this 
water supply.

*sigh*

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Date: 1995/04/26
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