ACRA, Ghana — Misper Apawu is a photographer based in Accra and works across West Africa. This dumpsite is in an informal settlement, a low-income community called Old Fadama in Accra. Cows, typically associated with green pastures and rural landscapes, were seen feeding off the waste at the dump. I wanted to capture the vastness of the dumpsite, so I …
In a shocking incident, a suspected serial killer has been arrested in Kenya following the discovery of several bodies at a quarry in Nairobi, with police saying on Monday he had confessed to killing 42 women including his wife. Bodies retrieved from a dumpsite in Mukuru Slums Image Source : REUTERSVolunteers retrieve bodies of unknown people from a dumpsite in …
Several non-toxic packaging materials used as coolants to keep medicines or vaccines at an optimal temperature have been allegedly lying unattended since 2021 on a land bordering the Greater Chennai Corporation’s dumpsite in Perungudi and close to the Pallikaranai marshland. These are gel-iced packs, used in temperature-control packaging systems during transportation so that medicines are kept at an optimal temperature, …
Mumbai: The National Green Tribunal has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to clear within two weeks a construction waste dumpsite which has emerged on the bank of the Mithi River, in Aarey colony. HT Image The dumpsite, near Tapeshwar Mandir, adjacent to the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road, comprises around four lakh metric tonnes of waste towering at a height of 25 …
After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse — and far more sweeping — than what scientists anticipated. In the process of trying to figure out how much DDT was dumped into the deep ocean, …
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