China's contribution to the world is staggering. They have given us... Jackie Chan, Confucius, Sun Tzu, Zhang Ziyi... and now mercury pollution, on a massive scale. Scientists have discovered that pollutants laced with high mercury output are crossing the Pacific and settling on American plants, animals, lakes, streams, cropland, and everything we eat and drink. From the Yale Global Online : On a recent hazy morning in eastern China, the Wuhu Shaoda power company revved up its...

Talk about killing two birds with one stone. With grave space at a premium and the planet allegedly undergoing climate change, it's apparently time to find a more eco-friendly way to dispose of corpses. The process, called resomation, allows people to dispose of loved ones in a more ecologically sound way. From the Post Chronicle : A British company says it has an eco-friendly alternative to cremation: boiling bodies into dust. In the process, called resomation, the body is encased ...