DDT

The mean annual temperature globally in 2014 was up about 0.7 degrees Celsius over the base year 1972, marking the 38th consecutive year since 1977 that the yearly global temperature was above average.

One of Canada’s top marine biologists is comparing the harm wrought by the accumulation of plastics in the world’s oceans to the warnings about the pesticide DDT in the famous 1962 book “Silent Spring.”

“Sound environmental administration must reconcile divergent interests and serve the total public constituency. It must appreciate and take fully into account competing social and economic claims.”

Recently, Chinese police broke up a syndicate in Guangzhou City that was selling pork from diseased pigs processed with a highly toxic pesticide.