October 22, 2020 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution A toxic stew that’s threatened St Petersburg, Russia is finally getting mopped up Acid from old car batteries. Industrial chemicals. Bleaches and solvents. Mercury from thermometers. Cyanide. Lead paint. Pesticides. Old meat and…
June 21, 2019 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution Bellona urges Russia to address ‘criminal’ shortfalls in toxic waste disposal Russia’s abiding trash wars have drawn the eye of a curious world as swelling protests in the streets and overflowing…
November 17, 2015 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution Huge amounts of banned agricultural chemicals still stored in Kalush, Ukraine KALUSH, Ukraine – From 2011 to 2014 large amounts of hexachlorobenzene, or HCB – an agricultural fungicide banned since 2004…
November 5, 2015 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution From Kalush to collapse: one Ukrainian city’s life on a lethal chemical stew KALUSH, Ukraine – Welcome to the city of Kalush, a former mining city on the foot of the Carpathian Mountains,…
