a 30km exclusion zone was established around the facility, in order to safeguard people from being exposed to any potential fallout from the reactor.Tomiokawas one of several towns, villages, and cities to be evacuated (in total, 488,000 people were rushed out of the area in the two weeks...
including cities and towns, and therefore, played an important role in the cultural landscape of the region. The eastward migration and abandonment of the Ahramat Branch could be attributed to gradual movement of the river to the lower-lying adjacent floodplain or tilting of the Nile floodplain ...
Selected heavy metal, Chromium (Cr), Lead (Pb), Nickel (Ni), and Iron (Fe) based on their health index has been determined in Asoro, Otofure, and Ikhueniro satellite towns in Benin Metropolitan City (BMC), Nigeria. The areas are heavily populated and depend on groundwater for drinking...
The lack of awareness for timely management of the environment surrounding a metal mine site results in several adverse consequences such as rampant business losses, abandoning the bread-earning mining industry, domestic instability and rise in ghost towns, increased environmental pollution, and indirect...
In a scaled series of experiments, green waste and sewage were disposed of from two nearby towns in a highly acidic north Australian coal pit lake [85]. Water quality measures of pH, acidity, and solute concentrations as total dissolved solids (TDS) all improved over the following two years...
Below us vast stretches of empty country become crisscrossed by roads along which towns sprout. At night they look like gleaming drops of dew on spider web strands.Here and there these grow and merge, glowing far into their surroundings by night. Above all this, the Moon is examined by ...