Deaths-head Jester

About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]
The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]
Explore:

Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!

SEARCH

More than 5,600 stories!

A great gift
for crisis deniers!


The ApocaDocs have a Book!
Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
$24.99 now $15!
Or read FREE online!




Twitter




Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon

Posted Tue May 10 2011: from Agence France-Press:
Ecologists raise alarm over Russia's Olympics http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1304986718
With just over 1,000 days left before the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia is pulling out all the stops to get ready in a drive activists say is leaving a devastating toll on the environment... "In general, environmental damage in Sochi is much worse than what we expected in the early stages of construction planning," said Suren Gazaryan of the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus....A mudslide from an illegal dump up the hill tore through the park and filled the river's banks with debris from tunnel construction and other waste in January. "Clearly leaving thousands of tons of waste on a steep hillside is not a good idea, but its convenient, and it can't be stopped," Gazaryan said as he picked off a chunk of the black substance for testing.
[Read more stories about: contamination, climate impacts, habitat loss, health impacts, short-term thinking]

New!:
No reader quips yet -- be the first!

Got a PaniQuip?

Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit):

First name:

The text shown in the Web image to the right:


We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

'Doc Jim says:
Maybe they ought to hold the ApocOlympics instead.

NEXT>
More stories:
  • Fact checker: Don't see consensus on global warming? Look past Fox News
  • Barring Cars to Clear the Air
  • (Ecologists raise alarm over Russia's Olympics)
  • Climate Controlled
  • Temperature Tantrum: James Hansen Speaks Out, Gets Busted, and Now Sues to Stop Global Warming

  • Want to explore more?
    Try the PaniCloud!
    Copyright 2010 The Apocadocs.com