The Green Planet Monitor

Bosses Old & New

GPM # 25

Senegal, on the western edge of Africa, has long been considered an anchor of stability. Today, tension fills the air.

Poisonous Legacies

GPM # 24

The mining, milling, processing and enrichment of uranium for use in nuclear bombs, the testing of those bombs, their actual or threatened...

No Immediate Danger

GPM # 23

Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb – ‘Little Boy’ – on the Japanese port city,...

Little Boy and Fat Man

GPM # 22

Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb, code named ‘Little Boy’, on the Japanese port...

Green Planet Monitor Podcast

GPM # 21

You are what you eat, so they say.

As it happens, the trillions of bacteria inhabiting your intestinal tract eat what you eat, turning...