landfills

Coastal landfills risk leaking long-banned toxic chemicals into the ocean

Coastal landfills risk leaking long-banned toxic chemicals into the ocean: Five years ago, a killer whale called Lulu washed up on the shores of Scotland. She was thought to be over 20 years old, though autopsies revealed she had never had any offspring. Tissues recovered from Lulu suggested she was one of the most PCB-contaminated …

Women bear the brunt of Africa’s urban disasters, such as the collapse of landfills

Women bear the brunt of Africa’s urban disasters, such as the collapse of landfills: The Hulene landfill in Maputo, Mozambique. Wikipedia Commons The last 12 months have been bracketed by two catastrophic, and predictable, events: the collapse of the Koshe Garbage landfill on March 11, 2017, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the collapse of the …