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A compendium of articles, reports, essays and investigations into
the effects of militarism on the environment and human society.
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Air Pollution from Baghdad Fires Poses Risks for Human Health
and the Environment
(United Nations Environment Programme)
The U.S. Military's War on the Earth (Bob Feldman / Dollars and
Sense)
Half of Basra Lacks Water, EU Says (Reuters & Agence France
Presse)
Gulf
War Syndrome Research Reveals Present Danger (Debora MacKenzie
/ New Scientist)
Outbreak of Gulf War Syndrome (The Green Party of England and
Wales)
UNEP's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit Initiates Study of
the Environment in Iraq (United Nations Environment Programme)
The War at Home: Fears over US Environmental Ambush (Stephen Hesse
/ Japan Times)
Civilians Caught in Basra Carnage (Essam Al-Ghalib / Arab News)
The
Desert Ecology: Another War Victim (David Lazarus / San Francisco
Chronicle)
Iraqi
Environment Defenseless Before Warring Forces (Environment
News Service)
The Iraq
War: An Environmental Assessment (ARC Ecology)
War in the Gulf:
An Environmental Perspective (Political Ecology
Group, 1991)
[smaller PDF for online reading (2.5
MB)] or [large
PDF for printing (7.7 MB)]
For
the US Military, the World is a Training Ground -
(Gerard Wright / Sydney Morning Herald)
The Tiger in the Tanks: ExxonMobil,
Oil Dependency and the War in Iraq (Greenpeace PDF)
The Environment:
Another Casualty of War (World Resources Institute)
This is the Reality of War: We bomb; They Suffer (Robert Fisk
/ London Independent)
The Missiles Came With Devastating Shrieks (Robert Fisk / London
Independent)
Tanks & Troops
Storm through Farmlands: A Bad Season for War in Hungry Iraq (Agence France-Presse)
The Impact
of a New War on Iraqi Children (The International Study Team)
Time to Abolish Chemical
Weapons (Mikhail
Gorbachev)
The New Oil Order (Michael Renner / Worldwatch Institute)
War
Endangers Iraq’s Archeological Treasures (BBC Online)
Iraq and the Axis of Oil (CorpWatch)
War Is a Waste (Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, Winter 1991)
Ten Reasons Militarism
is Bad for the Environment (Simon Doolittle)
Obviously
Oil (Dennis Kucinich)
Islam and the Environment (Gar Smith, Earth Island Institute)
Impending War Threatens Gulf:
Environment Damage Could Eclipse 1990-1991 Gulf War (Eric Pianin / Washington Post)
National Security & Oil: "Dangerous
Addiction" (Natural
Resources Defense Council)
What
a War Can Buy (Jeremy Ross, Clamor Magazine)
The Environmental Impacts of Various Conflict Zones.
United Nations Environment Programme. (PDF files)
http://postconflict.unep.ch/index.htm
Environmental Legacy in Kuwait. An Environmental Assessment
of Kuwait
Seven Years after the Gulf War. Final Report – August
1998.
Green Cross International
http://www.gci.ch/GreenCrossPrograms/legacy/Kuwait/kuwait7years.html
The Unfinished War. Environmental Impact: Oil Fires and
Spills Leave Dangerous Legacy
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/legacy/environment/
Environmental Impact of Conflict Assessment Studies: NA/SA,
Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa
Inventory of Conflict and the
Environment.
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/icehp21.htm
Environmental Impacts of War - Gulf War, Afghanistan,
well fires, depleted uranium, chemical and biological agents.
EMS – Environmental
Media Services.
http://www.ems.org/war/risks.html
How an Iraq War Might Scar Environment
ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/World/iraq030305_environment.html
Vietnam,
Afghanistan, health of US military personnel, Russia and more.
Earth Crash, Earth Spirit.
http://eces.org/ec/population/military.shtml
Gulf War Facts
National Gulf War Resources Center
http://www.ngwrc.org/Facts/default.htm
On Oil and War - Talking Points & Key Facts.
The Sustainable
Energy and Economy Network.
http://www.seen.org/PDFs/oil_and_war.pdf
Gulf environment faces worse threats
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2840995.stm
The Situation of Women and Children in Iraq
UNICEF.
http://www.unicef.org/noteworthy/iraq/situation.html
Results of 1999 Iraqi Child and Maternal Mortality Surveys
UNICEF.
http://www.unicef.org/media/publications/iraqmaternalmortality99.htm
The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm
Life Magazine’s devastating
photo-essay on the damaged children of Gulf War vets.
http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf01.html
The Last Battle of the Gulf War
Frontline’s definitive report
on the controversy surrounding Gulf War Syndrome.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/syndrome/
Gulf War; oil well fires, heavy metals, toxins, soil
erosion, more
Gulf War Veterans Resource Pages
http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=180
The Gulf War Impact on Terrestrial Environment of Kuwait:
An Overview.
The First International Conference Addressing Environmental Consequences of
War.
http://www.cas.usf.edu/envir_sci_policy/esprogram/espcourse/Omar2.htm
The Animal Victims of the Gulf War
Physicians for Social Responsibility
(1991)
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~puppydog/gulfwar.htm
MARINE AND WATER IMPACTS
Gulf War: Ecosystems, Coral Reefs, Shrimp, Oil/hydrocarbon Contamination and
More
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/pdf/gulfwar.pdf
Gulf War Impact on Marine Environment and Species
World Conservation
Monitoring Centre.
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/zgulfwar.html
Effects of the Gulf War on the Northwestern Arabian Gulf Water Quality, Ecosystem,
Fishery Stocks and Recovery Strategies
Kuwait Institute for Scientific
Research.
http://www.kisr.edu.kw/Project_details.asp?ID=554&type=0
Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem
UN Environment Programme.
http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/sustainable/tigris/marshlands/.
The 1991 Gulf War: Coastal and Marine Environmental Consequences. Marine
Pollution Bulletin 27.380pp. Price, A.R.G., Robinson, J.H., editors.
(1993)
Threats to the environment posed by war in Iraq
Birdlife International,
February, 17, 2003
http://www.birdlife.net/news/pritem_display.cfm?NewRecID=789&NewType=P
Important Bird Areas in Iraq
Birdlife International
http://www.birdlife.net/news/iraq_iba_chapter.pdf
Effects of the Gulf War
Oilspills and Well-head fires on the avifauna and environment of Kuwait.
Pilcher C.W.T & Sexton, D.B. (1993). Sandgrouse,
the Journal of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East 15: 6-17
Impact
of Gulf War oil spills on wintering seabird populations along the northern
Arabian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, 1991. Symens, P &. Suhaibani,
A. (1993), Sandgrouse 15: 37-43
Impact of Gulf War Oil Spills on the Wader Populations
of the Saudi Arabian Gulf Coast. Evans, M.I, Keijl, G.O. (1993), Sandgrouse 15:
85-105
OIL AND ITS ALTERNATIVES
MILITARISM
AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
THE 1991 WAR
Allied Air War Struck Broadly in Iraq; Officials Acknowledge Strategy Went
Beyond Purely Military Targets
By Barton Gellman / Washington Post
War in the Gulf: An Environmental Perspective
Political
Ecology Group
[smaller PDF for online reading (2.5
MB)] or [large PDF for printing (7.7
MB)]
WEAPONS OF WAR
DEPLETED URANIUM
Kosovo. Depleted Uranium: The Invisible Threat
Mother Jones magazine.
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/reality_check/du.html
Impacts of Depleted Uranium on Human Health
The Laka Foundation.
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dhap99f.html#MTP
Depleted Uranium
Sources, Exposure and Health Effects, Monograph.
World
Health Organization.
Depleted Uranium: Health and Environmental Impacts
Department of Defense.
http://www.deploymentlink.osd.mil/du_library/
Facts, Myths and Propaganda
in the Debate over Depleted Uranium Weapons
Dan
Fahey.
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/diss.html#DUMYT
LANDMINES
Another War, Another Round of Land Mines?
Commentary Opinion By Eugene Carroll and Rachel Stohl
Landmines, biodiversity, hazardous substances, ecosystem destruction,
more.
Academy of Natural Sciences.
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/kye/KYE22001.html
Human Health of Non-combatants; Landmines, Toxic Pollution
Canadian
Medical Association Journal.
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/cdn_medical_association/cmaj/vol-163/issue-9/1157.htm
THERMOBARIC
WEAPONS
BLU-118/B Thermobaric Weapon Demonstration / Hard Target
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/blu-118.htm
ELECTROMAGNETIC
WEAPONS
Pentagon Could Use Electromagnetic Weapons in Iraq
AP
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030213-newweapons01.htm
Coming Soon: Electromagnetic Warfare against Iraq
Defense
Watch
http://www.sftt.org/dwa/2002/11/6/1.htmlCLUSTERBOMBS
What Are Cluster Bombs?
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#what
The Use of Cluster Bombs in the Gulf War
Human Rights Watch.
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#gulfwar
The Convention on Conventional Weapons
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#explosive
Recommendations
Human Rights Watch.
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#recommendations
MOAB
("Mother of All Bombs")
US Develops Superbomb
London Evening Standard.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/3759323?source=Evening%20Standard
The
21,000-lb Big Blue Bomb
London Evening Standard.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/3759329?source=Evening%20Standard
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