Tag Archives: enviroment
Ammonia spill from Chinese factory kills thousands of fish
Thousands of dead fish floating along a 19-mile stretch of a river in Hubei Province in central China were killed by pollutants emitted by a local chemical plant, provincial environmental officials said Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/world/asia/thousands-of-fish-killed-by-waste-from-chinese-plant.html?ref=world Environmental protection officials said tests on water taken from the Fu River upstream from the metropolis of Wuhan revealed that extremely […]
Fukushima will leak radiation into the sea forever
The Japanese prime minister directed his government on Wednesday to step in to help stabilize the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after continuing radiation leaks exposed the failure of the plant’s operator to contain the problem more than two years after a triple meltdown. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/world/asia/fukushima-nuclear-plant-radiation-leaks.html?hp&_r=0 Some 300 tons, or about 75,000 gallons, of contaminated groundwater […]
Polluted drinking water attributed to fracking
Residents of a western Pennsylvania community, The Woodlands, say the water was spoiled by drilling deep underground for natural gas. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/10/us/ap-us-gas-drilling-water-contamination.html?ref=us In late 2011, the drinking water for about a dozen residents in the Woodlands, a rural community about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, began to change. At first, the families blamed gas drilling, or […]
Radiation leak in WA compounded by sequester
Six newly confirmed leaking tanks of radioactive waste was added evidence that even after decades of work and billions of dollars in taxpayer sacrifice, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s risks remain unresolved. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/struggling-hanford-site-awaits-new-cuts.html?ref=us Plutonium production for the nation’s bomb arsenal was elevated to industrial scale for years in the rolling scrub country of south-central Washington and […]
Dirty Babylon 