Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Photo of the day: the Hungarian toxic sludge

A few months ago, I met a visiting Hungarian environmental attorney, who might have a lot to say about this straight-out-of-Hollywood environmental news.

The caption for the photo here:
"Hungary declared a state of emergency after toxic mud spilled from a reservoir, dumping deadly chemicals on several towns. Here, a dog is covered with the toxic mud."

More here

Where is this place?
I wish the friendly news folks had labeled the neighboring countries :)
And I was too lazy to find a better map!
Slovakia is to the north, Austria on the NW ...

1 comment:

callezee said...

Its really a ashamed one and it against precautions of global warming.