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Thursday, July 29, 2010
London to Recycle Waste into Energy on the River Thames
Posted by: Brad Roderick
The River Thames, which runs 215 miles long, has provided transportation, energy to run mills , shaped trade and has added rich history to Southeast England. Now, as a way to increase environmental efforts the River Thames will be the home of a new incineration plant which will help to turn waste into energy in London.
Here is a video from cnn.com about what London hopes to achieve with the new incineration plant.
Friday, June 4, 2010
The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Ever wondered where the most toxic places on Earth are located? Here is a list of the top 15 from mother nature network.
The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live
Apocalypse now?
As the world’s population balloons to almost 7 billion, it’s become more and more difficult to find anywhere on Earth unaffected by man-made pollution and development, and far too often it takes things going really wrong before people take action to keep our planet clean. So here’s a list that might help to motivate: The 15 most polluted places in the world.
Citarum River, Indonesia
The Citarum has been called the world’s most polluted river. Around five million people live in the river’s basin, and most of them rely on its flow for their water supply.
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Chernobyl is the town in northern Ukraine home to the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Once home to more than 14,000 residents, the town remains mostly uninhabited and unsafe today due to extensive radioactive contamination.