environmental catastrophes

Findings of toxic contamination from Akara Resources' gold mine have been hailed as significant scientific confirmation of an environmental disaster in ... of TSF1, which indicated the water leaked from the well, as water from TSF1 had a different electrical resistance than water in the outside environment.

“What has saved us since the disaster are the loyal regular guests and the new visitors who have come to study our town's renewable energy plant. Without them, I'm sure we would ... In total, this town of about 340 residents took in around 1,000 evacuees after the 2011 disasters. Five of the 16 hotels in ...

What happens to a town that has been abandoned for seven years after a nuclear meltdown? Greenpeace took former residents and a 360-degree camera into the radiation zone north of Fukushima to mark the anniversary of the disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi plant was damaged by a tsunami triggered ...

President Trump has released his 2019 budget proposal, and when it comes to environmental policy, it's full of bad ideas. ... Senate Budget Chair Mike Enzi and Ranking Member Bernie Sanders to oppose these attacks on our health, clean air and water, and our efforts to preserve our environment for future generations. 2.

"We have seen a dramatic shift in weather patterns and trends, which means that we are operating in an environment of great uncertainty at this point in time," said Xanthea Limberg, a Cape Town city official. Putting it in perspective, the last two years of drought are seen by some University of Cape Town ...

Who will financially assist them in preventing yet another environmental catastrophe in Central Asia? And by the way, funding will assist them to fulfil the Sustainable Development Goals. In total, €85 million is needed in order to address the most urgent needs in the seven hotspots. This target is to be met ...

Unlike other states, Texas does not have any regulations requiring storage tanks to have added protective measures against spills during natural disasters. At least 15 floating roof storage tanks failed during Harvey, allowing millions of pounds of harmful chemicals to escape into the air, industry reported to ...

Environmental and utility groups and energy companies such as Sunrun Inc. say funding for disaster recovery and mitigation planning is more important than ever, ... and not just after-the-fact recovery,” Kirk Johnson, senior vice president for government relations for the NRECA told Bloomberg Environment.

It's been characterized by experts as the country's largest environmental disaster, altering the ecosystems along the Rio Doce basin tremendously in ... In this instance, the chemical soup ended the life of a river, which has created an environment favorable to the outbreak of yellow fever spreading to other ...

According to Environment Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, Ecopetrol will see “drastic sanctions” if the company “hid information that could've led to the prevention” of what some environmentalists call the biggest environmental disaster in the company's history. Almost four weeks after a pipe burst in the central ...

The meat industry has been linked to severe deforestation in South America in a new report compiled by Mighty Earth, Rainforest Foundation Norway, and Fern. According to the investigation, large-scale deforestation, fires, and human rights abuses in Argentina and Paraguay's Gran Chaco region can be ...

Lough Swilly is an “environmental disaster” due to the alleged failure of the marine authorities to properly control farming of oysters there, the High Court has been told. “What is happening in Lough Swilly currently is an environmental disaster”, said Paul Bradley, chairman of the Lough Swilly Wild Oyster ...

However this environmental crisis and the menace of climate change is not a natural disaster. It is the outcome of the capitalist system in its terminal crisis — brutally exploiting and crushing the working classes and spreading unprecedented poverty, inequality and devastating the planet's environment.

“We actually call these 'ecocide' projects,” says Cihan Baysal, an academic who studies urban development in Turkey and is a member of the Northern Forests Defense, a group of environmental activists in Istanbul. “These three projects are interrelated and they feed each other. The idea behind them is to ...

In her presentation, Eckstein discussed literature from two different environmental catastrophes, the first being the Bhopal disaster in which more than 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas because of an explosion in an insecticide plant located in Bhopal, India. The official death toll is ...

A new fleet of satellites could become the ultimate foil for fraudsters looking to make a quick buck in the wake of a natural disaster. ... "In the environmental and social sectors, we often have organizations solving 21st-century problems with 19th-century tools," says Andrew Zolli, vice president of global ...