Hongrie: Greenpeace alerte sur la dangerosité d'un réservoir de boue rouge Almasfüzitö (Hongrie) - Le réservoir de boue rouge d'Almasfüzitö (nord-ouest de la Hongrie) est une grave menace pour l'environnement, alerte l'ONG écologiste Greenpeace trois ans après la catastrophe écologique de Kolontar, où un réservoir similaire avait cédé. Situé au bord du Danube à une centaine de kilomètres en amont de Budapest, «ce réservoir est un des endroits les plus dangereux de la Hongrie», a indiqué à l'AFP Gergely Simon, expert en toxicologie de Greenpeace. En 2010, un réservoir avait cédé à Kolontar (ouest), déversant des centaines de milliers de boue rouge toxique sur les villages voisins, causant la mort de dix personnes et une catastrophe écologique de grande ampleur. Greenpeace dénonce désormais la technologie dépassée suivant laquelle le réservoir d'Almasfüzitö est conçu, ainsi que des fuites.
Progress in Disaster Science 1. Scope and Instructions for Authors Progress in Disaster Science focuses on integrating research and policy in disaster research, and publishes original research papers and invited viewpoint articles on disaster risk reduction; response; emergency management and recovery. press Las Vegas to conserve water LAS VEGAS — Deep beneath Lake Mead, a 23-foot-tall tunnel-boring machine grinds through stubborn bedrock in a billion-dollar effort to make sure water continues flowing to this thirsty resort city. For six years, the Southern Nevada Water Authority has been building an intake straw below the reservoir's two existing pipes. Due for completion in fall 2015, critics say it may not provide a long-term solution. An ongoing drought and the Colorado River's stunted flow have shrunk Lake Mead to its lowest level in generations. The reservoir, which supplies 90% of Las Vegas' water, is ebbing as though a plug had been pulled from a bathtub drain.
Water Excessive nutrient input to surface water, including nitrate, exacerbates water eutrophication. Clarifying the proportions of different nitrate sources in the aquatic environment is critical for improving the polluted water. However, nitrate sources in river basins are very complex and not clearly understood. In [...] Read more. Excessive nutrient input to surface water, including nitrate, exacerbates water eutrophication. September 8, 2013 - Demand Full EPA EIS for Wisconsin Mine to Be Poised Over Lake Superior Additional Background Support Wisconsin native peoples' demands that the EPA conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement regarding Governor Scott Walker's incautious plans to allow out-of-state political supporters to build a huge mine poised above Lake Superior - which could potentially full 20% of Earth's freshwater. One of Wisconsin’s most beautiful and environmentally sensitive forest wildernesses is to be pierced with a four-mile-long, 1,000-foot-deep gash in the Earth for an open-pit mine to produce deadly taconite. Out of state Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) is nearing approval – through a rigged kangaroo court environmental review process – to begin industrially destroying a 21,000-acre chunk of land in the remote forest highlands of northern Wisconsin called the Penokee Hills. The area is home to hardwood forests, rivers and streams, lakes, and wetlands. The proposed mine would extract taconite by removing about 650 feet of overburden on top of the ore.
Hydrolink (IAHR-AIRH) Journal of Hydraulic Research latest issue is now available! Journal of Hydraulic Research, Volume 57, Issue 6, 2019 has now been published. Journal of Hydro-environment Researchlatest issue is now available! Journal of Hydro-environment Research,Volume 27, December 2019 has now been published. Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research latest issue is now available! Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research ,Volume 7,Issue 4,2019 has now been published. Villains who poisoned W. Va. drinking water could end up behind bars Remember back in January when a chemical spill poisoned drinking water for 300,000 West Virginians? Well, this week, six owners, managers, and employees of the (ir)responsible company, Freedom Industries, were indicted by a federal grand jury. The prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, said that the company executives’ “flagrant disregard for the law” resulted in the “completely preventable” toxic leak. As 2014 wraps up, the (something resembling) justice system inches a small step closer to punishing the perpetrators of the contamination crime that kicked off the year in environmental disasters.
EPJ Photovoltaïque Biodiversité, état des sols, pollution : l'environnement se dégrade en Europe Le rapport 2015 de l'Agence européenne pour l'environnement pointe quelques succès des politiques communautaires, mais surtout une « détérioration » et des efforts qui restent à accomplir. Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Par Pierre Le Hir Biodiversité en déclin, écosystèmes dégradés, sols et ressources naturelles sous pression, milieux aquatiques souillés, pollution atmosphérique alarmante, déchets mal recyclés... C'est un tableau plus noir que vert que dresse le rapport 2015 de l'Agence européenne pour l'environnement (AEE), rendu public mardi 3 mars. « Notre analyse montre que les politiques européennes ont relevé avec succès beaucoup de défis environnementaux au fil des années. Mais elle montre aussi que nous continuons à malmener les systèmes naturels dont dépend notre prospérité », commente Hans Bruyninckx, directeur général de l'agence de l'Union européenne (UE). 60 % des espèces en situation « défavorable »
Birth Control Pills Negatively Affecting Fertility in Fish By now, most of us can agree that birth control is a woman’s right. But what if there’s more to it than women’s rights? What if every time you remember to take your pill, other lives are changed forever. There’s Something Fishy Going On As reported in The Washington Post, the pill is hurting fish. Central Valley's growing concern: the mix of oil, water and crops Here in California's thirsty farm belt, where pumpjacks nod amid neat rows of crops, it's a proposition that seems to make sense: using treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops. Oil giant Chevron recycles 21 million gallons of that water each day and sells it to farmers who use it on about 45,000 acres of crops, about 10% of Kern County's farmland. State and local officials praise the 2-decade-old program as a national model for coping with the region's water shortages.
Hooray! EPA Approves More Clean Water Protections Than Ever Drinking unclean water seems like a problem you’d hear about it in the developing world, not the United States. Believe it or not, though, one-third of Americans receive water that is unregulated by the Clean Water Act. That’s a lot of people who are potentially drinking tainted water. This power plant slurps up water for Arizona — and burns 15 tons of coal a minute This story was produced through a collaboration between ProPublica and Matter. A couple of miles outside the town of Page, three 775-foot-tall caramel-colored smokestacks tower like sentries on the edge of northern Arizona’s sprawling red sandstone wilderness. At their base, the Navajo Generating Station, the West’s largest power-generating facility, thrums ceaselessly, like a beating heart. Football-field-length conveyors constantly feed it piles of coal, hauled 78 miles by train from where huge shovels and mining equipment scraped it out of the ground shortly before. Then, like a medieval mortar and pestle machine, wheels crush the stone against a large bowl into a smooth powder that is sprayed into tremendous furnaces — some of the largest ever built.