Germany, UK, France To Open Air Space For Limited Flights
Paris: As airline losses from the volcanic ash cloud spiraled over $1 billion on Monday, airlines started demanding EU compensation and the aviation industry sharply criticized European governments for not using scientific measures to evaluate the ash and open up their airspace.
As the Icelandic volcano continues to spew ash across much of Europe, questions are circulating about whether the fine airborne particles of rock and glass pose health or environmental risks.
Several factors lead to the collapse in December of earthen dikes supporting a coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant, an engineering consultant said.
The public health of around 34 villages around the Barapukuria 250MW Power Plant is becoming hazardous as the plant chimneys are continuously emitting fly ash which is full of coal particles due to some technical glitches.
Sources said the plant started emitting fly ash about three to four months ago, forcing the residents of 34 villages to lead a miserable life.
United Nations figures show close to 10 million people die a year in India, where 85 percent of the billion-plus population are Hindus who practice cremation, mostly using wooden pyres that release huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2).
A coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee that experts were already calling the largest environmental disaster of its kind in US is more than three times as large as initially estimated, according to an updated survey by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
As southern Sudan emerges from decades of civil war, the country is now experiencing a deluge of forgotten diseases that were believed to have been under control. who blames it on the country's
