Côte d’Ivoire: Health fallout from toxic dumping worsens.

As the foul, eggy smell from toxic waste dumped last month in Cote d’Ivoire’s main city dissipates, thousands of people are still falling sick, and the United Nations has warned the pollution could seep into the food chain.

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Mont Blanc and a mountain of rubbish. So popular has Mont Blanc become with climbers - virtually a climbing package tour destination - that the "white mountain" could be renamed the "grey and yellow" mountain, according to one enraged local politician. [News Source]

Supermarkets improving but still fall short of green standards. Supermarkets have made progress on green issues in recent years but are still failing to care enough for the environment, a study has found. [News Source]

Earth care. Landscape maintenance businesses increasingly offer alternatives to synthetics. [News Source]

First ethanol pump in Florida up and running. Drivers with vehicles that can use ethanol-blend fuel were able to buy it in Florida for the first time Wednesday when a gas station here became the state's first to sell E-85. [News Source]

Screening of Gore film to kick off anti-LNG campaign. An outdoor screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" will kick off the campaign of the nonprofit California Coastal Protection Network, to raise public awareness of the legal effort to oppose the anchoring of a liquefied natural gas terminal 14 miles off the coast of Malibu and Oxnard. [News Source]

California councilwoman holds hearing on ‘profoundly local’ issue of global warming. Councilwoman Donna Frye, who convened a hearing at City Hall on Wednesday on global warming, introduced a plan to address what she called the “single-largest” threat to San Diego's environment and economy. [News Source]

Global warming: Will the sun come to our rescue? We may have one last chance to tackle climate change, and it comes from the unlikeliest source -- the sun. [News Source]

Gore calls on China and India to tackle climate change. Former US vice president Al Gore on Tuesday called on fast-growing China and India to step up their efforts to tackle climate change. [News Source]

Asthma on the rise. If Donna Backus approaches you and your coughing child in a restaurant and asks if he or she has ever been evaluated for asthma, take her seriously. [News Source]

Student asthma attacks increase. Nearly 7,000 children suffer asthma symptoms in just the Cedar Rapids area. Scientists say when school starts...kids start getting more asthma attacks. [News Source]