Poisoning the Land

Poisoning the Land
Author: Martin Weitz
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780531173282

Describes the ways in which we are polluting the earth and why this poses problems for us and future generations. Also examines practical solutions to prevent further pollution.

Environmental Crime in Latin America

Environmental Crime in Latin America
Author: David Rodríguez Goyes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137557052

This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the “theft of nature” and the “poisoning of the land” in Latin America through and from processes of agro-industry expansion, biopiracy, legal and illegal trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining. An interdisciplinary study, this collection draws on research from a wide range of international experts on not only green criminology, but also social justice, political ecology and sociology. An engaging and thought-provoking work, this book will be an essential text for anyone interested in current issues in environmental crime.

The Third Wave

The Third Wave
Author: W. F. Benfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011
Genre: Biodiversity conservation
ISBN: 9781872970288

Leonard Cockayne - whose obsession whith browse lead to a romantic desire to re-create a pristine world that had, in fact, never existed. In the beginning it was the war over deer, fought with service rifles. Today, as a result of years of official indocrination, the possum is the recipient oif the nations odium. 90% of the world's supply of the deadly 1080 poison is being spread on New Zealand in a misguided attempt at extermination." This book looks indepth into the issue.

Poisoning the Pacific

Poisoning the Pacific
Author: Jon Mitchell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1538130343

In this devastating exposé, investigative journalist Jon Mitchell reveals the shocking toxic contamination of the Pacific Ocean and millions of victims by the US military. For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years, nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans, Marshallese, Chamorros, and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time, the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions, causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile, the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan—the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone, US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination, including Guam, Saipan, and Johnston Island, the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange. Accompanying this damage, US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups, lies, and attacks on the media, which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.

Yellow Dirt

Yellow Dirt
Author: Judy Pasternak
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1416594833

Tells the story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. --From publisher description.

Poison Spring

Poison Spring
Author: E.G. Vallianatos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1608199266

An insider's account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.

Laying Waste

Laying Waste
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Pocket Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1981
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780671453596

A Niagara Falls, N.Y., reporter uncovered the Love Canal toxic waste scandal in 1978, and now relates tales of thousands of chemical dumps that contaminate waters, soil and air in the United States.

If You Poison Us

If You Poison Us
Author: Peter H. Eichstaedt
Publisher: Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

"The untold story of the Native Americans who were the patriotic but unwitting victims of America's quest for nuclear superiority during the Cold War." Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior (from the back cover).