Just following a news article on China's toxic rice led me to the front page of Google News on wat poisons are likely to hit us with the next political scare.

Glowballs is about burned out, meteor strikes and ice age fairy stories went the way of the dinosaurs. Flooding remains a comparatively under reported world problem and I was just wndering what could o wrong in the worst case scenario:
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The US supreme court endorsed the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to deal with air pollution blowing across state lines on Tuesday, couurt upholds EPA rule on cross-state pollution

Diesel lorries and cars on the A40 in west London. Air pollution experts warn of the link between diesel engines and premature death. Diesel engines responsible for 7000 deaths a year

Study finds river pollution is stunting the growth of wild birds. Pollutants are affecting the health and development of wild birds nesting along the urban rivers of South Wales, according to new research.

One fifth of China's farmland polluted Soil pollution has long been a concern in China due to the country's rapid industrialisation and the report carried on the website of the Ministry ...

Unholy pollution in India's holy waters. Amid the clamour of India's general election Prof Mishra senses an opportunity to rescue the river from industrial pollution and human ...

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We solved our air pollution problems in the 1960's and 70's by building taller chimneys. I don't think that will work for the after effects of mining. What we need for the next couple of years is a major drought to see what the wet dragged in.

Something that will meet the biblical edict of pollution causing the land to vomit. What might that bring, I wonder?

It's been a long time since Britain had volcanoes. Sink holes though....