Event 5 – Rev. Ch. 9 V 1 – 5
Locusts have always been a problem but never to the degree that they are today. As temperatures have increased, locusts have moved with the climate and are now causing havoc as far north in Europe as France.
When faced with a shortage of crops to eat, Locusts have been known to eat the carcasses of other Locusts and failing that, they have been known to eat the clothes of people’s backs. Read More / Watch Video »
Locusts have always been a problem but never to the degree that they are today. As temperatures have increased, Locusts have moved with the climate and are now causing havoc as far north in Europe as France.
More than 500 people have been sickened by pollution from a chemical plant in central China that has also been blamed for two deaths, state media reported Monday.
Ground water in Punjab, India, has been contaminated to such an extent that it is now causing DNA to mutate in people who drink it, warns a research commissioned by the Punjab Water Pollution Control Board.
Toxic chemical contamination was the likely cause of fatal fish mutations in northern Australia in which thousands of bass larvae spawned with two heads, an expert said Wednesday.
Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 per cent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China’s worsening environmental degradation. 




