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  • Would you pass the Koala Bear test?

    I've just returned from a wonderful few days in Perth, Western Australia, where the motorists don't as a rule try to kill you (unlike in most of Asia) and if you are a tourist at least, you can come away with the false impression that the cork-hatted people have got the balance between work and...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • Tainted food hits polymer sales

    As if the problems confronting China's polyolefin markets were not enough, sales have apparently been further hit by the tainted food scares which began with baby's milk. A wide range of products are now affected with Cadbury becoming the latest global confectionary brand to withdraw some of...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008

  • Mercury link to dolphin deaths

    Another news from Australia, scientists from the continent found that mercury poisoning could be a contributing factor for why dolphins strand themselves on the shore. According to an article from the Royal Society of Chemistry , scientists from the Monash University in Melbourne found higher mercury...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008

  • Bali doesn't go anywhere near far enough

    At least the US is on board, but the pact to reduce emissions by 25-40 per cent by 2020 might well not be sufficient to prevent the 1.5 centigrade rise in global temperatures that will be disastrous for the planet. In another excellent article from George Monbiot of The Guardian, he argues that we need...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-16-2007
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