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The Slow Poisoning Of The Arctic
by Marla Cone
Book Reviewed by:This article relates to Silent Snow
Marla
Cone is one of the USA's premier environmental
journalists. She has nineteen years of experience
covering environmental issues and has twice won a
national award for environmental reporting.
In 1962 Rachel Carson warned of the the dangers of DDT
in Silent Spring. Now Marla Cone warns of a far
more malignant cocktail of poisons that have already
reached crisis levels in the Arctic region.
The Arctic is the 'canary in the coal mine' for the rest
of the world - what happens there will eventually happen
across the world. Already, the mothers of one in six
babies born in the U.S. have levels of mercury in their
bodies that exceed government safety levels.
A cloud of haze over the Arctic was first noticed in
1952. Today, the cloud is the size of Africa and in
springtime resembles the smog over Los Angeles.
A map of the Arctic region.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Silent Snow. It originally ran in May 2005 and has been updated for the
April 2006 paperback edition.
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