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Toxic foam covers India's sacred river
The sacred Yamuna river in New Delhi, the site of the Hindu festival of Chhath Puja, was covered with mounds of snow-white foam on November 8.
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Terrifying cases of mercury poisoning in history
Thousands of years ago, people knew mercury. At that time, the Chinese and Indians believed that mercury was a kind of medicine that helped people to live immortality, h…
Animal world
Dogs turn blue after drinking and bathing in Indian pollution rivers
The wild dogs' fur turned blue due to drinking and bathing in polluted river water, IFL Science reported.
Animal world
Fish died on a series of Serepok river
On January 28, in Hoa Xuan commune, Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak and Ea Po, Cu Jut district, Dak Nong, there are still dozens of people rowing boats and going along the S…
Environment
Indonesia 'wiped out' the dirtiest river in the world
The lead content in the Citarum River is 1,000 times higher than the US drinking water safety standard, but 30 million people still rely on it for irrigation, washing an…
Environment
Hundreds of hectares of lakes in India burn more than 30 hours
An extensive lake of India many times catches fire and fumes with smoke because of the many flammable contaminants.
Environment
Terrified because the river changed color, red like blood in Russia
Russian authorities are opening an investigation to determine why the Daldykan river in Norilsk city turned red like blood.
Environment
Broken tanks, hundreds of thousands of lead waste sludge flow into the river
The bottom concrete slab of the lead and zinc waste tank of the factory in Cao Bang broke up, causing hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of water and lead and zinc sl…
Environment
To what extent is lead sludge spilled into dangerous rivers?
The breakdown of the reservoir in Cao Bang caused hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of water and lead and zinc sludge to spill into the environment, flow to Gam rive…
Environment
Poison leak - Bhopal tragedy
In the production, transportation and use of toxic substances, just a little attention is needed to leak the environment, harm human health. The leak n
Environment
Poisonous algae cover 1.5 km of Chinese lake
Polluted lake water causes cyanobacteria to develop, spreading over the surface of An Huy lake, affecting ecosystems and water sources.
Environment
Recovery of rare earth from waste water
Rare earth elements are essential for making modern electronic devices such as magnets, catalysts, superconductors ... But because they are rare, they are very expensive.
Environment
China promotes recycling of industrial waste
On March 2, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China announced a plan to recycle 7 billion tons of solid industrial waste in the 2011-2015 period in…
Environment
Polluted water threatens Liuzhou City, China
Authorities in China have begun to more closely monitor the level of water safety after discovering the cadmium toxin downstream of the Liujiang River, caused by a minin…
Environment
Building environmentally friendly houses from industrial waste
A South African coal mining company is cleaning up the industrial waste they have thrown out into the environment, turning them into materials to build cheap and environ…