poison
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British Counter-Terrorism Officials Are Investigating Two More Novichok Poisonings
Neil Basu, Britain’s top counter-terrorism official, announced today that a couple poisoned in the county of Wiltshire appear to have been exposed to Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury earlier this year.
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Russia: Well, Maybe It Was Actually The UK That Poisoned Our Ex-Spy With Our Soviet-Era Nerve Agent
According to the BBC, Russian ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov now says that the nerve agent used in the poisoning of 66-year-old former Russian spy-turned-double-agent Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia Skripal in the city of Salisbury, England may have actually came from a nearby British lab.
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EPA Head Met With CEO Of Dow Before Rejecting Ban On Dow’s Toxic Pesticide
Scott Pruitt seems like the kind of guy who would dunk his first born in toxic waste just to demonstrate that it would survive. Still, his decision to reject a ban on a popular pesticide that’s been shown to harm children’s brains was a little surprising. On Tuesday, we found out that a cosy relationship…
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Tourists Kill Bahamas’ Swimming Pigs Because We Can’t Have Anything Nice
Some days, humans just generally suck. And then there are days when you realise why this planet is trying so hard to just wipe us out.