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Hazy conditions disrupt air travel in China - Yahoo! News
"Poor visibility delayed about 280 domestic and international flights serving Beijing on Wednesday, the capital's airport said, following several days of heavy air pollution."
More Streaming Trash: The Rampant Industrialization of China – Environmental, Political and Human Consequences
"Linfen, China’s coal capital was named the most polluted city in the world by the Blacksmith Institute, an organization that focuses on identifying heavily polluted areas and providing help to the people who live in them. A city of over 4 million, Linfen is literally choked by smoke from coal fires and steel mills, many which operate illegally to reap the financial rewards offered by China’s huge industrial activity. Much of the local population suffers from respiratory conditions and other pollution-related health problems. It is quite clearly an environmental catastrophe and one of the worst examples of industrial and economic growth at the sacrifice of human and ecological concerns."
Fourteen Democratic senators stick up for coal | Grist
"14 Democratic senators affirmed their allegiance to the profits of polluting industry at the expense of the health and jobs of their constituents. In a letter to Senate leaders, a bloc of senators with powerful coal interests in their states called for “fair emissions allowances in climate change legislation.” Their definition of “fair,” unfortunately, turns out to be full taxpayer subsidies for global warming polluters. "
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Horrific images of pollution in China
Leaking oil rig catches fire off Australia’s coast - World environment- msnbc.com
"A massive fire erupted on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea and Australia's government on Monday promised an investigation, the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.
Rig operator PTTEP Australasia said no one was injured and nonessential workers were evacuated after the fire broke out on the West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform on Sunday.
The blaze started when workers began pumping heavy mud into a leaking well casing. An estimated 400 barrels of oil a day have escaped from the hole since Aug. 21."
Oil spill 'massive' risk to Australian animals - Yahoo! News
"A massive oil and gas leak off Australia's northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday.
Oil company PTTEP Australasia is preparing to make a fourth attempt at plugging the leaking Montara wellhead, which has been spewing oil, gas and condensate into the Timor Sea since August 21.
The spill is reportedly Australia's worst since offshore drilling began more than 40 years ago."
Message from the Gyre
"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. "
How UK oil company Trafigura tried to cover up African pollution disaster | World news | guardian.co.uk
"The British oil trader Trafigura has offered to pay out in a historic damages claim from 31,000 Africans injured by the dumping of toxic waste in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history, the Guardian can reveal.
The compensation deal for the victims of toxic oil waste dumping in west Africa – likely to be confirmed imminently – means the full extent of attempts to cover up what really happened can be spelled out for the first time."
The World's Top 10 Worst Pollution Problems: Scientific American
From the residue of mining to untreated sewage, the world is grappling with a host of environmental problems - here is a list of 10 of the worst
Bhopal being poisoned all over again | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Twenty-five years after the Bhopal gas leak killed thousands, there has been no cleanup of the site – and Indians continue to die horribly
Chemical Time Bomb in Ukraine Endangers 7 Million People
The health of at least 7 million inhabitants in Moldavia and Ukraine is seriously threatened by a single stock of old pesticides.
This has been reported by the International HCH and Pesticides Association (IHPA). According to the organization the EU must act as fast as possible to disarm this ‘biggest chemical time bomb of Europe’.
'Strong' evidence linking toxic ship to ICoast deaths: UN expert - Yahoo! News
A UN expert has found "strong" evidence linking at least 15 deaths and several hospitalisations to pollution from a ship that dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, contrary to claims from the firm that chartered the ship.
Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells - Series - NYTimes.com
There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spread on nearby grain fields. Other farmers receive fees to cover their land with slaughterhouse waste and treated sewage.
In measured amounts, that waste acts as fertilizer. But if the amounts are excessive, bacteria and chemicals can flow into the ground and contaminate residents’ tap water.
News - UK Government 'misleading' public on air pollution - The Ecologist
UK ranked amongst the worst polluters in Europe for airborne particles and nitrogen dioxide
Defra has come in for damning criticism for failing to tackle air pollution in a report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS).
The UK has repeatedly failed to meet EU air pollution targets over past decade, according to the report. This is despite the estimated 24,000 people who die prematurely every year in Britain because of air pollution.
China villagers riot over polluting plant: residents - Yahoo! News
Villagers in southeastern China attacked police and took local officials hostage in protests over a wastewater treatment plant they accuse of pollution, residents and state media said Tuesday.
Police had to intervene in a bid to rescue two officials taken captive in the unrest in the city of Quanzhou in coastal Fujian province, residents told AFP.
They said anger over a foul smell emitted by the plant and suspicions that it was polluting the local environment had been building for years.
Guardian Environment Network: Mountaintop mining legacy: Destroying Appalachian streams | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining across Appalachia has been well documented. But scientists are now beginning to understand that the mining operations' most lasting damage may be caused by the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams
Corporate pranksters show a lot of bottle in Bhopal fight
Dow has come under fire from activists because in 2001 it took over Union Carbide, which owned and ran the pesticide plant in the central Indian city where the world's worst industrial accident took place.
In December 1984 a storage tank leaked toxic gas methyl isocyanate into the air. More than 500,000 people were exposed to the deadly fumes.
Estimates of the death toll vary but it is generally accepted between 8,000 and 10,000 died within the first three days and some 25,000 since.
Thousands more suffered health problems from the incident and subsequent pollution at the site.
As the 25th anniversary of the disaster approaches, activists are pressuring Dow to clean up the area's contaminated water supply.
"The company has claimed that it is not responsible and that Union Carbide had settled its responsibility before Dow became the owner, but water in the city is still contaminated," said Mr Bonnano.
Birth defects show human price of coal | International | Reuters
coal mining and processing has given Shanxi a rate of birth defects six times higher than China's national average, which is already high by global standards
Car Exhaust Associated With Premature Births in Southern California: Scientific American
Women exposed to air pollution from freeways and congested roads are much more likely to give birth to premature babies and suffer from preeclampsia, according to a study by University of California scientists published Wednesday.
Real Time Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Over Mobile Internet
Air pollution is one of the number one factors that affect our quality of life and health. Currently, pollutants are measured at different stations in a city and that data is aggregated to a single number (the air quality index) and published once a day on a website. There is not enough data that gets gathered to evaluate air quality in a given neighborhood and that data is hard to find. Now a European company called Sensaris is using Bluetooth wireless sensors, used in combination with mobile phones, that allow citizens to monitor and report air and sound quality data. Its first large scale deployment is in Paris.
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