[email protected]/pressreleases/toxics/2000may19.htmlFour Greenpeace activists were recently thrown in a Tokyo jail on trespassing charges; they had unfurled a banner from a water tower proclaiming Tokyo to be the world's dioxin capital. Here the group explains why it wants to decloak the Japanese government's deadly little secret.

www.hygiene.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cfo/dioxinconference/ The first step to solving any problem is talking about it, which is why the Dioxin Conference might be the most constructive site out there on the topic. It's a bulletin board that invites surfers from around the world to discuss a global disaster in the making. You have to register first, though, and the boards are, not surprisingly, quite sober and serious.

www.nativeforest.org/campaigns/netforest/dioxin.html Next time you read a dioxin report in any newspaper, including this one, do this: See if it includes an adequate definition of the compound. Know what? It won't. The Native Forest Network, though, helps out us simpleton journalists and our readers with a straightforward, easy-to-understand explanation.