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NASA Image: Smoke from the fire which broke out on 28 Jan 2016 at the Deonar dumping ground, Mumbai [13] The Deonar dumping ground has caused health issues for the residents from Mumbai's neighbourhood of Chembur, Govandi and Mankhurd. [4] Recurrent fires at the dump have caused conditions unfit for habitation for residents of the adjacent area ...
The landslide occurred 9:30 on 19 July 2023, in the remote mountain hamlet of Irshalwadi, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra.The village resides close to Irshalgad fort, which is a popular weekend trekking spot.
Workers on top of Ghazipur landfill in 2013. The Ghazipur landfill is a landfill waste dumping site established in 1984. It is located in Ghazipur, a village in the eastern district of Delhi, India.
Jam spends most of the year living in a one-room hut on Tragadi Bandar, a makeshift fishing settlement that borders the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in the western state of Gujarat, 100 miles south of India’s border with Pakistan.
The news reports claimed the uranium levels were more than 60 times the maximum safe limit. [44] [45] In 2012, the Government of India confirmed [46] that the ground water in Malwa belt of Punjab has uranium metal that is 50% above the trace limits set by the United Nations' World Health Organization. Scientific studies, based on over 1000 ...
Residents on Bilhay Lane in West Bromwich, West Midlands, woke up to find the 4m (16ft) pile of rubbish in the middle of the street. Fly-tippers dump mountain of rubbish on residential street Skip ...
The 2021 Mumbai landslide was a series of landslides that occurred in Chembur and Vikhroli, the suburban neighbourhood located in Mumbai, India on 18 July 2021. [4] At least thirty-two people were killed [1] [5] and several others injured after they were trapped under houses that collapsed due to landslides caused by heavy rains. [6]
A Villa Miseria in Argentina A favela in Brazil. This is a list of slums.A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security.