Video Report: Bangladesh’s booming leather industry brought in more than $460 million in revenue last year. But the human cost is also high, with many workers suffer from diseases related to exposure to the fumes of a toxic chemical called Chromium. Chromium is banned in most countries because of its devastating effects on the human body, including causing cancer. Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from the tanneries in the capital, Dhaka.
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Pacific island fisheries face collapse in the next 25 years as overfishing, population growth and climate change threaten one of the region’s main economic resources, a study warned Wednesday.
The report, published by the Noumea-based Secretariat of the Pacific Community, said the two billion US dollar a year industry was poorly managed, with a lack of coordination between the 22 island nations in the region.
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The Hungarian plant which caused a toxic sludge leak has reopened as villagers forced to abandon their houses begin to return home.
Dozens of homes in the village of Kolontar, the closest to the plant, were made uninhabitable by the sludge.
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Video Report: Hungary’s prime minister blames ”human negligence” for the toxic red sludge that killed eight people last week.
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Volunteers are sifting through the mud in Western Hungary to rescue animals caught up in the industrial spill.
Farm animals and pets were left behind after inhabitants of the village of Kolontar and parts of Devecser were evacuated.
Even in the surrounding forests animals were badly affected by the sludge which has a Ph level of over 13 and can cause severe burns.
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The entire ecosystem of a small river in Hungary which is situated in the area affected by a deadly toxic mud spill, has been destroyed, a disaster relief chief said Thursday.
“The entire ecosystem of the Marcal river has been destroyed, because the very high alkaline levels have killed everything,” Tibor Dobson, head of the regional disaster relief services, told the Hungarian news agency MTI.
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Hungarian officials on Friday played down the threat of disastrous pollution to the Danube river from an industrial accident in Hungary, while its prime minister said the situation was under control.
The death toll from Monday’s disaster meanwhile rose to seven, officials said, and one person was still missing.
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Dead fish are floating in the Danube after a toxic sludge spill that killed four people in Hungary reached Europe’s second longest river.
Blood-red sludge reached the main branch of the Danube after wiping out all life in the smaller Marcal tributary, said the regional chief of Hungary’s disaster relief services, Tibor Dobson.
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Video Report: Serbia is monitoring the River Danube for signs of pollution after the Hungarian toxic spill reached the major European waterway. Natalie Armstrong reports.
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China’s capital Beijing on Thursday shared the title of most polluted city in the country, as delegates from around the world worked in nearby Tianjin towards a deal to combat global warming.
The China Environmental Monitoring Centre rated both Beijing and the central city of Zhengzhou as having “slightly polluted” air — a rating of III2 on scale from I (excellent) to V (hazardous).
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Hungary’s toxic sludge spill, which has killed four people, has reached the Danube River, threatening to contaminate the waterway’s ecosystem.
Water alkalinity, a measure of river contamination, was reportedly already above normal in the major waterway.
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Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties on Tuesday, a day after a torrent of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant tore through nearby villages, killing four people and injuring 120.
The waste, produced during bauxite refining, poured through Kolontar and two other villages on Monday after bursting out of a containment reservoir at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt plant, owned by MAL Zrt.
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India’s environment minister said on Monday the country could not have high economic growth and a rapid rise in carbon emissions now that the nation was the number three emitter after China and the United States.
Jairam Ramesh’s comments come as negotiators from nearly 200 governments meet in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin. The U.N. talks aim to reach agreement on what should follow the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol, the key treaty on climate change, which expires in 2012.
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At a construction site in northern China, a billboard boasts of a “liveable city” where residents can drink tap water, travel on clean energy public transport and enjoy acres of parkland.
For now, the ambitious “eco-city” covering 30 square kilometres (11.6 square miles) of non-arable salt pans and former fishing villages has more cranes than wind turbines and will not be finished for at least another decade.
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British energy giant BP has pledged to pay a record 15-million-dollar fine to the US government for releasing pollutants into the air at its Texas refinery, officials said Thursday.
The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a joint statement that BP Products North America, a US subsidiary of the group, “has agreed to pay a 15-million-dollar penalty to resolve federal Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas, petroleum refinery.”
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Police clashed with citizens opposing the use of a rubbish dump as hundreds of tons of waste piled up on Naples’s streets Friday, three years after a trash crisis hit the southern Italian city.
A strike by refuse collectors fearing that their temporary contracts will not be renewed overlapped over the past few days with a protest by the citizens of Terzignano, a town south of Naples, who oppose the use of a rubbish dump near their homes and the opening of a new one in the area.
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