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The fight to escape from a black hole
Victoria Griffith visits a Brazilian city that was shut down because of excessive pollution levels Just 35 miles south of Sao Paulo the highway to the Brazilian coast descends from a mountain paradise of trees and waterfalls to what looks like a futuristic nightmare – the city of Cubatao. Metal chimneys belching fire and smoke […]
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Brazil hopes to rescue forest with seed drops
HELICOPTERS began dropping two tons of seeds this week on Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, which has been reduced by land speculation, and some of the world’s worst airborne pollution, to five per cent of its size 20 years ago. The forest once covered vast tracts of eastern Brazil, and rivalled the Amazon in its unique biological […]
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A host of roasted daffodils
Hunchback fish no longer get their batter coating at the Tangier Street fish and chip shop. The fruits of the Irish Sea, which crashes furiously on to Whitehaven’s beaches, no longer find their way into the hot and vinegar-soaked newspaper wrapping at the fish bar across the road from the windswept harbour of the Cumbrian […]
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Brazilian city battles pollution
Cubatao, Brazil – Quality of air, water improves in ‘valley of death’ Thanks to perhaps the biggest anti-pollution program ever mounted in Brazil, this industrial city nestled in the Serra do Mar mountains is on the way to losing its reputation as ”the valley of death.” With the Sao Paulo State environmental agency, Cetesb, mandating […]
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Will Florida cut radon risks?
If the 1988 Legislature is serious about reducing Florida’s lung cancer cases caused by radon gas, it will toss out the tainted report from a committee of special interests and concentrate on recommendations by Gloria Rains, a Manatee County environmentalist and expert on the radon hazard. Mrs. Rains recently stood alone against the industries that […]
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High radium level found under Inverness Middle School
INVERNESS – Soil beneath Inverness Middle School has higher than normal levels of a radioactive element called radium, which caused the high levels of the cancer-causing gas found in the school last summer, recent tests show. The tests of soil taken from just under the school’s floor revealedlevels of radium as high as three times […]
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Ordinance would require radon gas safeguards
INVERNESS – New buildings along U.S. 41 and State Road 200 would be covered by proposed regulations designed to protect residents from cancer-causing radon gas. The area that would be included in the ordinance includes about 32,000 acres – or 7 percent of the land in Citrus County, according to federal soil scientist Paul Pilny. […]
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Give notice of the radon risk
A funny thing happened while a citizens’ committee was drafting recommendations to the Legislature on how Florida should deal with the public heath hazard caused by radon gas. Suddenly, the powerful phosphate, home building and real estate industries not only agreed to propose a state building code to prevent cancer-causing radon from invading homes; they […]
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Citizens of Brazil’s Valley of Death breathing easier after two years of cleanup
CUBATAO, Brazil – People are breathing cleaner air in this industrial city, long considered one of the world’s most polluted and known in Brazil as the Valley of Death. The United Nations-affiliated World Health Organization and local ecological groups say that a $500-million government cleanup program has produced substantial improvements in pollution levels in Cubatao, […]
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Mystery cloud leads to search of records
TAMPA – State environmental officials Friday began searching through records of a phosphate company and interviewing Polk County residents who said they became ill after breathing fumes from a mile-long gas cloud. State officials said US Agri-Chemical company near Fort Meade may be responsible for causing the gas cloud Wednesday over parts of Polk and […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry