Authorities in central China plan to move 15 000 residents away from smelting plants in the area after nearly 1000 children tested positive for lead poisoning, state media said on Friday. Zhao Suping, mayor of Jiyuan city in Henan province, said the mass relocation would cost one billion yuan ($146-million), the official Xinhua news agency […]
By Matt WalkerEditor, Earth News Noise pollution is becoming a major threat to the welfare of wildlife, according to a scientific review. Sounds produced by vehicles, oil and gas fields and urban sprawl interfere with the way animals communicate, mate and prey on one another. The sounds are becoming so ubiquitous that they may threaten […]
By David W. Dunlap and James Estrin Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath.”) So […]
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 A heretofore undisclosed underground flow of mine pool water between Consol Energy’s Blacksville No. 1 and No. 2 mines may have contributed to the highly salty, polluted discharges that caused the massive, month-long fish kill on Dunkard Creek. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said stream […]
By Emma Graham-Harrison and Lucy Hornby BEIJING, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Nearly 1,000 children living in a major Chinese lead smelting base have excessive levels of the heavy metal in their blood, state media said on Tuesday, as environmentalists called on firms to detail their pollution. The country’s biggest smelter has acknowledged some responsibility in […]
By Frank Pope, Ocean Correspondent Scientists say man-made noise equipment, including anti-seal sonar devices used in fish farms, is driving deep-water animals such as whales to shore, where they die. A northern bottlenose whale was washed up dead on a beach in Prestatyn, North Wales, on Saturday morning, the tenth of the species to become […]
Alpine glaciers are now releasing nasty chemicals that settled on them decades ago and have since been banned By Jessica Hamzelou Bad hair and shoulder pads are not the only things from the 1980s that we’d rather not see again. Nasty chemicals banned in that decade are also on the list. Unfortunately, melting Alpine glaciers […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Waste from French power stations was being deposited in the open air in Russia, French newspaper Liberation said on Monday. The paper said 13 percent of French radioactive waste produced by power group EDF could be found in the open air in a town in Siberia to which access is forbidden. The […]
Stream protection rules await action as seasonal problem endures By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer LAKE GEORGE — With new rules to protect Lake George’s streams still to be unveiled, this summer marked the 23rd in a row in which a pollution-fueled “dead zone” formed in deep water at the southernmost end of the lake. From […]
By RUSSELL SADLERJournal of the San Juans Correspondent NORTHWEST OF YELLOW ISLAND, SAN JUAN CHANNEL — “Lost” gill nets are never really lost. Fishing boat operators cut loose snagged nets and get their boats free and head for port. The derelict nets remain where they were snagged — often for decades — catching and killing […]
