31.   Chemical waste is causing serious health and reproduction problems in wildlife, the World Wide Fund for Nature warned Thursday.

32.   Chemical wastes and nitrates seep around and through the wall into the sea, which during storms can slap up against the dam, pulling parts of it off.

33.   Previous cases of mass deaths of Baikal seals were blamed on infectious disease and poisonous chemical waste from a pulp mill.

34.   Preliminary investigations by the Fire Services and Rescue Department showed that a large amount of chemical wastes including discarded plastics had been dumped at the site.

35.   The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a Greenpeace claim that chemical wastes dumped at sea are making male sex organs shrink is unproved.

36.   The Environment Ministry issued a statement that dumping of the chemical waste and the coal ash in the Mediterranean will both cease at the end of this year.

37.   The Environment Ministry said the dumping of the chemical waste and the coal ash in the Mediterranean will stop at the end of this year.

38.   The streets run black with chemical wastes.

39.   Vedan-Vietnam was ordered to stop dumping chemical waste into coastal waters near southeastern Vietnam.

40.   Freshwater fish are threatened with extinction in Italy, largely because of pollution from chemical waste, the Worldwide Fund for Nature said Monday.