photo credit: Bálint Fejér, via Creative Commons On January 30, 2000, a toxic chemical spill destroyed wildlife, devastated fish stocks and threatened the water supplies of nearly 2.5 million people in central Eastern Europe. Romania’s Somes River, Hungary’s Tisza River and Yugoslavia’s Danube River, which is Europe’s largest waterway, were each catastrophically polluted. The toxic [...]
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Photo credit: Matthew Burpee At the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers in Peru, over 12,000 feet up in the Andes, is a small city of about 35,000 people. It is a community built on the mineral wealth of the mountains and exists only to serve the mines and the smelting company that processes [...] “Norilsk…is a city where the bus driver tells you, ‘If a Norlisk man gets sick in Moscow, the way to cure him is to move him closer to the car’s exhaust.’” “Butte, Montana is no longer a town. It’s a dead zone.” “…the single largest point-source for acid rain-causing emissions on the entire continent.” |
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