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A compendium of articles, reports, essays and investigations into the effects of militarism on the environment and human society. Send additional documents to editor@envirosagainstwar.org.

 

Air Pollution from Baghdad Fires Poses Risks for Human Health and the Environment
(United Nations Environment Programme)

The U.S. Military's War on the Earth (Bob Feldman / Dollars and Sense)

Half of Basra Lacks Water, EU Says (Reuters & Agence France Presse)

Gulf War Syndrome Research Reveals Present Danger (Debora MacKenzie / New Scientist)

Outbreak of Gulf War Syndrome (The Green Party of England and Wales)

UNEP's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit Initiates Study of the Environment in Iraq (United Nations Environment Programme)

The War at Home: Fears over US Environmental Ambush (Stephen Hesse / Japan Times)

Civilians Caught in Basra Carnage (Essam Al-Ghalib / Arab News)

The Desert Ecology: Another War Victim (David Lazarus / San Francisco Chronicle)

Iraqi Environment Defenseless Before Warring Forces (Environment News Service)

The Iraq War: An Environmental Assessment (ARC Ecology)

War in the Gulf: An Environmental Perspective (Political Ecology Group, 1991)
[smaller PDF for online reading (2.5 MB)] or [large PDF for printing (7.7 MB)]

For the US Military, the World is a Training Ground - (Gerard Wright / Sydney Morning Herald)

The Tiger in the Tanks: ExxonMobil, Oil Dependency and the War in Iraq (Greenpeace PDF)

The Environment: Another Casualty of War (World Resources Institute)

This is the Reality of War: We bomb; They Suffer (Robert Fisk / London Independent)

The Missiles Came With Devastating Shrieks (Robert Fisk / London Independent)

Tanks & Troops Storm through Farmlands: A Bad Season for War in Hungry Iraq (Agence France-Presse)

The Impact of a New War on Iraqi Children (The International Study Team)

Time to Abolish Chemical Weapons (Mikhail Gorbachev)

The New Oil Order (Michael Renner / Worldwatch Institute)

War Endangers Iraq’s Archeological Treasures (BBC Online)

Iraq and the Axis of Oil (CorpWatch)

War Is a Waste (Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, Winter 1991)

Ten Reasons Militarism is Bad for the Environment (Simon Doolittle)

Obviously Oil (Dennis Kucinich)

Islam and the Environment (Gar Smith, Earth Island Institute)

Impending War Threatens Gulf: Environment Damage Could Eclipse 1990-1991 Gulf War (Eric Pianin / Washington Post)

National Security & Oil: "Dangerous Addiction" (Natural Resources Defense Council)

What a War Can Buy (Jeremy Ross, Clamor Magazine)

 

The Environmental Impacts of Various Conflict Zones.
United Nations Environment Programme. (PDF files)
http://postconflict.unep.ch/index.htm

Environmental Legacy in Kuwait. An Environmental Assessment of Kuwait
Seven Years after the Gulf War. Final Report – August 1998.

Green Cross International
http://www.gci.ch/GreenCrossPrograms/legacy/Kuwait/kuwait7years.html

The Unfinished War. Environmental Impact: Oil Fires and Spills Leave Dangerous Legacy
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/legacy/environment/

Environmental Impact of Conflict Assessment Studies: NA/SA, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa
Inventory of Conflict and the Environment.
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/icehp21.htm

Environmental Impacts of War - Gulf War, Afghanistan, well fires, depleted uranium, chemical and biological agents.
EMS – Environmental Media Services.
http://www.ems.org/war/risks.html

How an Iraq War Might Scar Environment
ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/World/iraq030305_environment.html

Vietnam, Afghanistan, health of US military personnel, Russia and more.
Earth Crash, Earth Spirit.
http://eces.org/ec/population/military.shtml

Gulf War Facts
National Gulf War Resources Center
http://www.ngwrc.org/Facts/default.htm

On Oil and War - Talking Points & Key Facts.
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network.
http://www.seen.org/PDFs/oil_and_war.pdf

Gulf environment faces worse threats
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2840995.stm

 

The Situation of Women and Children in Iraq
UNICEF.
http://www.unicef.org/noteworthy/iraq/situation.html

Results of 1999 Iraqi Child and Maternal Mortality Surveys
UNICEF.
http://www.unicef.org/media/publications/iraqmaternalmortality99.htm

The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm
Life Magazine’s devastating photo-essay on the damaged children of Gulf War vets.
http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf01.html

The Last Battle of the Gulf War
Frontline’s definitive report on the controversy surrounding Gulf War Syndrome.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/syndrome/

 

Gulf War; oil well fires, heavy metals, toxins, soil erosion, more
Gulf War Veterans Resource Pages
http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=180

The Gulf War Impact on Terrestrial Environment of Kuwait: An Overview.
The First International Conference Addressing Environmental Consequences of War.
http://www.cas.usf.edu/envir_sci_policy/esprogram/espcourse/Omar2.htm

The Animal Victims of the Gulf War
Physicians for Social Responsibility (1991)
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~puppydog/gulfwar.htm

 

MARINE AND WATER IMPACTS

Gulf War: Ecosystems, Coral Reefs, Shrimp, Oil/hydrocarbon Contamination and More
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/pdf/gulfwar.pdf

Gulf War Impact on Marine Environment and Species
World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/zgulfwar.html

Effects of the Gulf War on the Northwestern Arabian Gulf Water Quality, Ecosystem, Fishery Stocks and Recovery Strategies
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
http://www.kisr.edu.kw/Project_details.asp?ID=554&type=0

Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem
UN Environment Programme.
http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/sustainable/tigris/marshlands/.

The 1991 Gulf War: Coastal and Marine Environmental Consequences. Marine Pollution Bulletin 27.380pp. Price, A.R.G., Robinson, J.H., editors. (1993)

Threats to the environment posed by war in Iraq
Birdlife International, February, 17, 2003
http://www.birdlife.net/news/pritem_display.cfm?NewRecID=789&NewType=P

Important Bird Areas in Iraq
Birdlife International
http://www.birdlife.net/news/iraq_iba_chapter.pdf

Effects of the Gulf War Oilspills and Well-head fires on the avifauna and environment of Kuwait. Pilcher C.W.T & Sexton, D.B. (1993). Sandgrouse, the Journal of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East 15: 6-17

Impact of Gulf War oil spills on wintering seabird populations along the northern Arabian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, 1991. Symens, P &. Suhaibani, A. (1993), Sandgrouse 15: 37-43

Impact of Gulf War Oil Spills on the Wader Populations of the Saudi Arabian Gulf Coast. Evans, M.I, Keijl, G.O. (1993), Sandgrouse 15: 85-105

 

OIL AND ITS ALTERNATIVES

 

MILITARISM AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

 

THE 1991 WAR

Allied Air War Struck Broadly in Iraq; Officials Acknowledge Strategy Went Beyond Purely Military Targets
By Barton Gellman / Washington Post

War in the Gulf: An Environmental Perspective
Political Ecology Group
[smaller PDF for online reading (2.5 MB)] or [large PDF for printing (7.7 MB)]

WEAPONS OF WAR

DEPLETED URANIUM

Kosovo. Depleted Uranium: The Invisible Threat
Mother Jones magazine.
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/reality_check/du.html

Impacts of Depleted Uranium on Human Health
The Laka Foundation.
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dhap99f.html#MTP

Depleted Uranium Sources, Exposure and Health Effects, Monograph.
World Health Organization.

Depleted Uranium: Health and Environmental Impacts
Department of Defense.
http://www.deploymentlink.osd.mil/du_library/

Facts, Myths and Propaganda in the Debate over Depleted Uranium Weapons
Dan Fahey.
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/diss.html#DUMYT

LANDMINES

Another War, Another Round of Land Mines?
Commentary Opinion By Eugene Carroll and Rachel Stohl

Landmines, biodiversity, hazardous substances, ecosystem destruction, more.
Academy of Natural Sciences.
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/kye/KYE22001.html

Human Health of Non-combatants; Landmines, Toxic Pollution
Canadian Medical Association Journal.
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/cdn_medical_association/cmaj/vol-163/issue-9/1157.htm

THERMOBARIC WEAPONS

BLU-118/B Thermobaric Weapon Demonstration / Hard Target
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/blu-118.htm

ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS

Pentagon Could Use Electromagnetic Weapons in Iraq
AP
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030213-newweapons01.htm

Coming Soon: Electromagnetic Warfare against Iraq
Defense Watch
http://www.sftt.org/dwa/2002/11/6/1.htmlCLUSTERBOMBS

What Are Cluster Bombs?
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#what

The Use of Cluster Bombs in the Gulf War
Human Rights Watch.
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#gulfwar

The Convention on Conventional Weapons
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#explosive

Recommendations
Human Rights Watch.
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm#recommendations

MOAB ("Mother of All Bombs")

US Develops Superbomb
London Evening Standard.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/3759323?source=Evening%20Standard

The 21,000-lb Big Blue Bomb
London Evening Standard.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/3759329?source=Evening%20Standard

 

 

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