Agent Orange

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit case that determined Blue Water Navy veterans are eligible for presumptive exposure to Agent Orange benefits--could extend benefits to Vietnam veterans who served on ships within 12 nautical miles offshore during the war.

Hanoi, Apr 21 (ONA) The US has launched a multi-million-dollar clean-up operation at an air base in Vietnam it used to store the notorious chemical Agent Orange.

A dialogic approach to Toxic Disasters: Agent Orange in A Luoi Valley

Agent Orange was commonly used to strip the Viet Cong guerrillas of forest cover and food sources, killing trees and crops.

Agent Orange is the name most commonly associated with the poison

One of six titles in a series called Unnatural Disasters, "Chemical Catastrophes" includes summary and discussion of chemical contamination of the environment, eco-activism, dangers of pesticide use, use of poison as a weapon (including use of Agent Orange), a 1976 explosion in Italy involving TCDD, the same chemical found in Agent Orange, the Minamata, Japan, mercury-water pollution disaster, toxic mining of asbestos minerals in Libby, Montana, air pollution in Norilsk, Russia, and toxic drinking water in China.

He is one of the thousands of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.

He is one of the thousands of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Pham Thi Phuong Khanh, 21, is another such patient.

An estimated 11.4 million gallons of the chemical pesticide known as Agent Orange were sprayed over millions of acres of Vietnam forests from 1962 to 1970.

It was claimed that Agent Orange and Agent Blue were harmless to humans and only had a short-lived impact on the environment.

AWELSH journalist who tirelessly fought to raise the awareness of Vietnam Warera defoliant Agent Orange has won a top journalism award in Japan.