July 8, 2011 - A team of investigators says it has detected the presence of metallic drums buried under a South Korean military base that could contain Agent Orange.
The joint South Korean-U.S. investigation said it detected unidentified metal objects buried beneath a helipad at Camp Carroll in Chilgok, some 180 miles southeast of Seoul.
The location of the drums matches claims made in May by some retired American soldiers who said they buried 250 55-gallon drums of Agent Orange at the site in 1978. Agent Orange is a defoliant used in Vietnam and it has been linked to birth defects and cancer.
Officials are drilling into the site to extract samples for testing. The results are expected in August. Investigators used ground-penetrating radar and other technologies to search the area in which the drums were said to be buried. read more >>>
And with All that's known about Agent Orange, and similar defoliants, and finally being paid more attention to by more on this planet the next Huge and Continuing tragedy of!
5 July 2011 - 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.
Officials from Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA were first tipped to the illegal clearing by satellite images of the forest in Amazonia; a helicopter flyover in the region later revealed thousands of trees left ash-colored and defoliated by toxic chemicals. IBAMA says that Agent Orange was likely dispersed by aircraft by a yet unidentified rancher to clear the land for pasture because it is more difficult to detect than traditional operations that require chainsaws and tractors. read more >>>
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