pollution

Until a few decades ago, food traveled much less than today. Looking only at supermarket shelves, our tables and pantries, we hardly notice what season we're in. Supply is so vast and varied that the we can find pretty much anything (from Coconuts to chestnuts, mangos to oranges) and everything seems to be local and within easy reach.

But it isn't. Do you know how much CO2 is released into the atmosphere for each kilogram of fruit produced overseas and transported to our country?

A desert landscape; abandoned crumbling hotels; dry swimming pools; dead palm trees; a salty lake with white salt-crusted beaches and dead fish. Welcome to the Salton Sea, an apocalyptic place in the forgotten southeast corner of California. The Salton Sea is one of the first victims of climate change. When choices have to be made about where to send the reduced quantities of water some win, some lose.

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Lei Yue Mun is a 150 years old fishing village in Hong Kong, it is famous for its seafood market attracting many tourists to its restaurants. It has also become a major shipping port in Hong Kong, an important channel in the South China Sea. I asked the fishermen what they are expecting to fish, they laughed and said there is nothing in the sea anymore, that they are merely there to pass time. But what about the seafood market? They ship most of the seafood from elsewhere, one replied.

A desert landscape; abandoned crumbling hotels; dry swimming pools; dead palm trees; a salty lake with white salt-crusted beaches and dead fish. Welcome to the Salton Sea, an apocalyptic place in the forgotten southeast corner of California. The Salton Sea is one of the first victims of climate change. When choices have to be made about where to send the reduced quantities of water some win, some lose.

 

Situated in the middle of the Brunei river just a few minutes walk away from the downtown core of Bruneis' capital city Bandar Seri Begawan, you will find one of the oldest water villages in the world.

When Bobby and his friends decided to play on the beach near the plastic factory, they were just looking for a nice afternoon. But when Bobby dove deep down into that murking water, with the liquid plastic by-products, his hair light up with a toxic light and his body started to ache. He shot to the surface of the ocean to escape, but then his face inflated and his teeth feel out. Bobby went to the hospital, and the doctor told him there was nothing he could do to repair the damage.

Quiet and ghostly, Sumqayit, the third biggest town of Azerbaijan tries not to remember its past as the biggest dump of the country; it all started when years ago, the Sovietic government decided to use the town to get rid of all the siderurgic, chemical and oil industries waste of the nearby capital city Baku. The absheron peninsula, turned itself from a beautiful place for tourism into a sad and wasted landscape. The high pollution percentage, let the city earn the first place in the most polluted cities of the world award in 2006-08. Taking a shot into Sumquayt people’s life, all of this seems to be unreal. The perception of all these risks is absent in their eyes and they completely ignore the fact that the tail of this pollution catastrophe still bring malformed child, genetic mutations and took the percentage of cancer afflicted up to 51% all of this thanks to the constant and increasing pollution. ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------- Silenziosa e spettrale,Sumqayit, la terza città per estensione demografica dell’Azerbaijan cerca di non pensare alla fama di discarica dell’Urss, nata quando il governo sovietico decise di stabilire in questo sito tutto lo smaltimento delle vicine industrie petrolchimiche, chimiche e sidururgiche della vicina capitale Baku... La penisola di Absheron, da attrattiva turistica è diventata così un relitto paesaggistico. Il picco di inquinamento è tale da assegnare a sumquayt il primo posto nella poco prestigiosa classifica delle città più inquinate del mondo per il biennio 2006-2008. In tutto questo il ritratto della gente e dei luoghi sembra quasi all’oscuro di tutto…. Completamente ignaro anche delle conseguenze sociali, di un fenomeno che tra le altre cose attesta un 51% di malati di cancro rispetto alla media nazionale, e accerta malformazioni infantili e mutazioni genetiche come conseguenza del progressivo inquinamento.

Swimming in toxic waters In antiquity the Thriasio Plain, to the South west of Athens on the Saronic Gulf, was one of the holiest areas of Greece, with its centre at Elefsina. Today it is the industrial backyard of Athens, hosting 40% of Greek industry with 1,623 industrial plants, two refineries, two steel mills, two cement plants, two shipyards and an ammunition factory. The area has become one of the most environmentally degraded areas of the country.

The Central Reclamation Phase III Project in Hong Kong originally planned to reclaim 32 hectares of land, but has been reduced to 18 due to public opposition. Throughout history, numerous reclamation projects were undertaken at Victoria Habour, where this site is situated.