Rob Edwards

John Muir 'prostituted' for insurance advert

filed for Sunday Times, 17 May 1998

The strange sound you may hear, if you listen carefully, is one of Scotland's greatest environmentalists turning in his grave. The name of John Muir, the Dunbar-born father of conservation in America, is being taken in vain for a cause his devotees say he would have despised - selling insurance.

Radioactive waste leaking from Russian store

from New Scientist, 09 May 1998

RADIOACTIVE waste from about 80 scrapped military submarines on the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia may have begun leaking into the sea.

The area, home to Russia's northern fleet, has one of the most concentrated collections of nuclear waste in the world. Moscow acknowledges that the waste poses a long-term pollution threat, but insists that nothing has leaked out.