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Worldwatch Papers
Mainstreaming Renewable Energy in the 21st Century
- WWP #169
Deep Trouble: The Hidden Threat of Groundwater Pollution
- WWP #154
Why Poison Ourselves? A Precautionary Approach to Synthetic Chemicals
- WWP #153
Recycling Organic Waste: From Urban Pollutant to Farm Resource
- WWP #135
Nuclear Waste: The Problem That Won't Go Away
- WWP #106
Clearing the Air: A Global Agenda
- WWP #94
Protecting Life on Earth: Steps to Save the Ozone Layer
- WWP #87
Defusing the Toxics Threat: Controlling Pesticides and Industrial Waste
- WWP #79
Mining Urban Wastes: The Potential for Recycling
- WWP #76
Altering the Earth's Chemistry: Assessing the Risks
- WWP #71
Banishing Tobacco
- WWP #68
Air Pollution, Acid Rain, and the Future of Forests
- WWP #58
Pollution: The Neglected Dimensions
- WWP #27
Cutting Tobacco's Toll
- WWP #18
State of the World
Chapters
Reducing our Toxic Burden
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State of the World
2002
Uncovering Groundwater Pollution
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State of the World
2001
Controlling International Environmental Crime
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State of the World
2001
Phasing Out Persistent Organic Pollutants
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State of the World
2000
Press Releases
World Watch Magazine: January/ February 2004
- December 18, 2003
From Rio to Johannesburg: Reducing the Use of Toxic Chemicals Advances Health and Sustainable Development
- June 25, 2002
For Lakes and Rivers Trouble Comes From Far Away
- March 01, 2002
Detoxifying Terrorism
- November 16, 2001
Bush POPs Announcement a Relative "No-Brainer"
- April 20, 2001
Ground-Breaking Toxics Report Will Wake-Up America
- March 21, 2001
Bush Makes Mistake on CO2
- March 14, 2001
The Hidden Freshwater Crisis
- December 09, 2000
Stepping Off the Toxic Treadmill
- November 19, 2000
Shifting Tax Burden to Polluters Could Cut Taxes on Wages and Profits by 15 Percent
- May 08, 1997
Air Pollution Now Threatening Health Worldwide
- January 20, 1990
Links
Greenpeace International Toxics Campaign
International Council of Chemical Associations
International POPs Elimination Network
U.N. Environment Programme, POPs Treaty
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
World Wildlife Fund: Global Toxic Initiative
World Watch
Magazine Articles
The Hidden Shame in the Global Industrial Economy
- January/ February 2004
Laced With Arsenic
- January/ February 2003
Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT
- May/ June 2002
Short-circuiting the Global Phosphorus Cycle
- March/ April 2002
Biotech, African Corn, & the Vampire Weed
- September/ October 2001
Toxic Fertility
- March/ April 2001
POPs Culture
- March/ April 2000
Groundwater Shock: The Polluting of the World's Major Freshwater Stores
- January/ February 2000
Coming to Terms with the Arctic
- January/ February 2000
Fighting Pollution in Viet Nam
- November/ December 1999
Recycling Human Waste: Fertile Ground or Toxic Legacy?
- January/ February 1998
Nowhere to Hide: The Global Spread of High-Risk Synthetic Chemicals
- March/ April 1997
A Refrigerator Revolution
- September/ October 1996
Meltdown
- May/ June 1996
Water-borne Killers
- March/ April 1996
IPM and the War on Pests
- March/ April 1996
Military Mop-Up
- September/ October 1994
Toxic Green: The Trouble With Golf
- May/ June 1994
Chemical Reaction
- March/ April 1993
Whitewash: Pursuing the Truth About Paper
- September/ October 1992
A Place for Pesticides?
- May/ June 1992
Facing Up To Nuclear Waste
- March/ April 1992
Saving Earth, Creating Jobs
- January/ February 1992
War on Nature
- May/ June 1991
Eastern Europe's Clean Break
- March/ April 1991
A Most Deadly Trade
- July/ August 1990
You Are what You Breathe
- May/ June 1990
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- July/ August 1989
The Ocean Blues
- July/ August 1989
Down the Tubes
- March/ April 1989
Ten Years of Fallout
- March/ April 1989
Industrial Wasteland
- November/ December 1988
Car Sick
- November/ December 1988
Unhealthy Alliance
- September/ October 1988
Setting Our Houses in Order
- May/ June 1988
How Many Chernobyls?
- January/ February 1988
Smoking Epidemic Widens
- January/ February 1988