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NBC's Mark Potter landed what should have been an idyllic trip to Vieques, eight miles off Puerto Rico, for an In Depth report--except that public health officials find that islanders are dying from cancer at a 50% greater rate than their fellow Ricans. Residents are suing the USNavy, which operated a firing range on the eastern half of the island for 60 years, alleging that "bomb-related toxins" including arsenic, lead and mercury are killing them. They want the Pentagon to pay for their healthcare. Potter showed us distant explosions as bombs and debris continued to be cleared from the disused range, now "turned into a wildlife refuge."
Yet how bad a life can it really be at NBC News? Not only was Potter in Vieques but Wednesday Anne Thompson was in the rain forest of Costa Rica. Now Ian Williams reports for NBC's Greening the Earth in scuba gear from the Phi Phi Islands off Thailand. He showed us the bubbly underwater class photo of a team of marine biologists from the University of Missouri building a coral nursery to regrow reefs.
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