“There were
“
rumors
of
unfathomable things,
and because we could
not fathom them we
failed to believe them,
until we had no
choice it was too
- Nicole Krause
late.”
Source: www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
Cancer rates in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan are 22 -51% higher
than the national average in Azerbaijan.
Source: www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
A young coal miner in Linfen, China. The city of 3
million has the worst air quality in China.
Source: www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
A woman drinks water from
an exposed pipe in Sukinda,
India, a city on the “Worst
Polluted” List.
Contaminated water by
hexavalent chromium have
caused increased rates of
infertility, birth defects, and
still births in this city of 2.6
million.
Source: www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
Norilsk, Russia has the world’s largest heavy metals smelting
complex. Its operation releases 4 million tons of Cd, Cu, Pb,
Ni, As, Se, and Zn in the air annually.
Sasha is one of the children
at the Vesnova Orphanage,
near Chernobyl, Ukraine.
More than five million
children are living in the
nuclear fallout affected areas
in Belarus, Russia, and
Ukraine. Twenty-one years
after the disaster, abandoned
mental and physically
handicapped children are
being found and taken in by
the orphanages.
Source: www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
The area of the
Wilkins Ice
Shelf is
approximately
the size of
Northern
Ireland
…. or equal in
size to 6 – 7
Manhattan
Islands.