"Beaches covered in the green algae are an annual occurrence in France’s westernmost region. The issue pits Brittany’s $5.1 billion tourism industry against its $11.6 billion farming sector, whose large quantities of animal waste and use of fertilizers are blamed by scientists for feeding the so-called “green tides’’ in Brittany’s shallow bays....
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Yeah, I'd cancel the day at the beach.
Related: French growth grinds to halt
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"Errors caused Air France crash, report says" July 30, 2011|New York Times
PARIS - French accident investigators announced yesterday that a detailed analysis of the crash of an Air France jet over the Atlantic Ocean two years ago appeared to support suggestions by outside specialists that fundamental errors by the pilots caused the plane to stall and plummet 38,000 feet into the sea, killing all 228 people aboard.
They are blaming the dead pilots now? How convenient. Too bad the airlines had to replace all those sensors that were blamed for a year.
The report stopped short of any final conclusions.
But initial findings highlighted by investigators of the Bureau of Investigations and Analysis indicated that the two copilots in the cockpit of the Airbus A330-200 had never been trained to fly the aircraft in manual mode, nor had they been instructed on how to recognize promptly and respond to a malfunction of their speed sensors at high altitude.
The report called for changes to pilot training procedures aimed at helping crews respond appropriately when they run into trouble at high altitudes.
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Ah, yes, the strange odyssey of Flight 447.
I'm sorry, readers, but I view any plane crash report in my paper as a cover-up now.
Also see: Brazil police arrest 33 at Tourism Ministry
Monsanto's Agent Orange Being Used to Clear Amazon Forest
Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War -- and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers in Brazil have begun spraying the highly toxic herbicide over patches of forest as a covert method to illegally clear foliage, more difficult to detect that chainsaws and tractors. In recent weeks, an aerial survey detected some 440 acres of rainforest that had been sprayed with the compound -- poisoning thousands of trees and an untold number of animals, potentially for generations
