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The legendary giant squid, which has only recently beendiscovered to be real, is being killed by all the noise inthe ocean. Unusually high numbers of them are washing up onSpanish beaches. Scientists think they’re being killed bythe loud, low frequency sounds made by oil drilling in theocean.

Scientists have never seen living giant squids in theirnatural habitat?they only know they exist because they?vefound dead specimens. Before that, these creatures werethought to be tall tales told by fishermen.

Debora MacKenzie writes in New Scientist that militaryexercises are also killing off marine life. In 2002, NATOexercises with high-intensity sonar were blamed for thelarge number of beached whales.
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During the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11,2001, up to 400,000 New Yorkers breathed in air from thetoxic cloud caused by the buildings collapse. A U.S.government study shows there was a cover up of the truehealth toll from 911 pollution, which doctors think mayeventually cause more deaths than the attacks themselves.But the sniffer dogs that were exposed on that day are stillhealthy?probably because they pant.

Geoffrey Lean writes in The Independent that the new reportsent to Congress says that between 250,000 and 400,000people in lower Manhattan were exposed to the pollution on911, but there is still no organized program to study thehealth effects.
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As of 10PM EDT, Hurricane Jeanne slammed ashore just southof Fort Pierce Florida as a Category 3 storm, onapproximately the same path as Frances, which struck thearea three weeks ago. However, Jeanne is a much strongerstorm than Frances and three million Floridians have beenordered to evacuate the area. Most have ignored this warning.

More than a million utility customers are expected to losepower,and its restoration could take three weeks to a month, dueto the fact that damage from previous storms has not yetbeen repaired.
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There are rumors flying around the internet that the Ile de la Tortue off the north coast of Haiti has been inundated and 26,000 people have been drowned.

This is the truth of that rumor: an initial visit by reliefofficials suggested that the island was under water. Thiswould mean that the 26,000 inhabitants had been drowned.

However, according to Agence France-Presse, GuyGauvereau of the World Food Program has reported that arevisit has been made, and ithas been determined that the island was not inundated, andthe population was not drowned.

Gauvereau said that an overflight of the island byhelicopter on Monday indicated no major problems for thepopulation.
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