Near the north end of Baffin Island, hundreds of narwhal, the small whales with the unicorn horn ivory tusk, are trapped in the ice far from open water.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/25/Ice_traps_400_Canadian_Arctic_whales/UPI-48911227635040/
The starving whales have lost half their three-inch insulating layer of fat and are doomed. Permission has been given to the Inuit to harvest them. Their fat, muktuk, […]

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See:
Lower IQs found in 9-year-olds whose mothers were exposed to PCBs while pregnant.
at:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/lower-iqs-found-in-9-year-olds-born-to-mothers-that-were-highly-exposed-to-pcbs-while-pregnant
Similar results to previous studies. As usual,their continuing presence is blamed on environmental persistene, not continuing global use.
Also, PCBs are measured and blamed for the effects, but  people ingesting high PCBs will also be ingesting more of the legacy pesticides such as […]

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A recent article … http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0fb5ee/china_pesticide_in … reports a healthy improvement in the production and export of pesticides from China.
A while back, a Chinese environmental official estimated that it would take a  $140,000,000 study just to determining how much of what type of pesticides they manufactured.
Their negotiators a the UNEP meetings to ban more substances in […]

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Scan this article  and then read the below. We cannot solve our local pollution problems without a global effort. We must develop adequate and non polluting fire retardants, but we cannot keep them from polluting us without a global ban.
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/081106toxic_flame_retardants.html
They are advocating for “International” elimination of brominated flame retardants. North America is criticized for always […]

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