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Hungary says clean-up of toxic spill could take a yearBudapest (AFP) Oct 6, 2010 A damburst of toxic sludge that killed at least four people and left scores needing treatment for chemical burns and other injuries could take up to a year to clean up, officials said Wednesday. "The clean-up and reconstruction could take months, even a year," Environment Secretary Zoltan Illes said. On Monday, the retaining walls of a reservoir at an aluminium plant in Ajka in western Hungary collapsed, sending a toxic soup of industrial waste cascading through seven villages. The devastati ... read more |
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Anka, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 6, 2010Aid agencies working to decontaminate parts of northern Nigeria where lead poisoning has killed more than 400 children are battling concealment of deaths and lead-laden sites as well as the epidemic itself. Hundreds of children have died in the last six months in seven villages in Zamfara state, where lead-rich run-off from illegal gold mining has entered the soil and water supply, according ... more  
Bucharest (AFP) Oct 6, 2010Countries bordering the Danube reinforced water quality controls after a toxic mud spill in Hungary raised fears that pollution could reach the second longest river in Europe. In Serbia, downstrean from Hungary, authorities are monitoring closely the quality of waters even though the heavy metals pollution does not currently threaten the country, Predrag Maric, in charge of emergency situati ... more 
West Lafayette, IN (SPX) Oct 07, 2010Doppler weather radar will significantly improve forecasting models used to track monsoon systems influencing the monsoon in and around India, according to a research collaboration including Purdue University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Dev Niyogi, a Purdue associate professor of agronomy and earth and atmospheric sciences, sa ... more |
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China's Wen hits back at Japan in rare earths rowBrussels (AFP) Oct 6, 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hit back at Japan Wednesday in a row about shipments of rare earth minerals, threatening fresh strains between the northeast Asian giants over a key high-tech resource. "We will not block the rare earth market," Wen told an audience of business figures in Brussels ahead of a fractious summit with EU leaders marred by a dispute over the yuan and other differences. Rare earths, of which China is currently the main world producer, are essential elements used in everything ... read more |
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