Dear Readers,
For the next five months, visit our site to find commentary, news updates, and thematic posts on environmental problems and solutions, written by students at McDaniel College Budapest.
For starters, recognize the photo accompanying this post? It's a satellite image of the Ajka alumina plant spill, taken five days after the disaster itself. A trail of red sludge is still visible coming from the empty reservoir. Since then, we've learned much about how the dangerous, highly alkaline sludge was not properly classified as a dangerous substance, and the lethargy with which people's lives in Kolontar and Devecser have been reconstructed.
More to follow...
M.A.
