However, from the end of November 2020, the factory stopped working. This is like a knife cut into the despair of the nearly 300 inhabitants living on the island. These people are forced to drink contaminated water, fear outbreaks of disease and face the fear of prolonged starvation. Impotent “Skin diseases and diarrhea are widespread, especially among children. We have no choice but to drink contaminated water or salt water,” said Taboree Biremon, a resident of Banaba island. “The kids are not okay because they don’t understand (why do we have to deal with this). They keep asking for the kind of food they never get. We just feel so sad about it but what can we do?” According to Mr. Taboree, it has been 3 months since people have had no fresh water to drink, cannot bathe, have no food other than fish because all crops have died. “We couldn’t sleep either. All we wanted was to find water on the island. We are looking for a way to survive. We were adrift in the sea, lost and no one cared,” Mr. Taboree said. Empty food shelves – a familiar image in many houses in Banaba. Photo: Guardian. A ship from Kiribati – 400km away – docked this past March – providing bottled water and equipment to set up a new desalination plant. But island seniors insist relying on remote support is not feasible and sustainable, especially as the climate crisis worsens. “Dealerization plants are not a long-term solution. As the incident continued, we were in the same impasse again. What the people need is to restore the status of the island,” said Roubena Ritata, a village elder. Banaba leaders are looking for a lasting solution. In fact, there is a solution that their ancestors have worked for decades to survive on this island: the traditional method of drawing water. Reason Elders are writing to the Australian and New Zealand governments asking for assistance in building or cleaning up a network of underground water in the caves, called te bangabanga . Australia and New Zealand contributed to the destruction of the bangabanga te system in the 20th century from phosphate mining. This activity was started by Australian miner Albert Ellis in 1900. Over the next 80 years, the British Phosphate Commission (BPC) – owned by Australia, New Zealand and the UK – exploited Banaba Island so much that about 90% of the island was bare land. “The total destruction (Banaba island) is the result of the activities of these countries. They come, fill their pockets, and leave,” said Katerina Teaiwa, an associate professor at the Australian National University and author of “Ocean Island: The Story of Man and Phosphate from Banaba”. The Banaba has historically survived many severe droughts thanks to caves and water storage. The underground caves are called te bangabanga. Photo: Guardian. However, the elderly residents here claim that almost all of the caves have been destroyed, the remaining few are seriously polluted. “For many people, te bangabanga exist only in stories and dances that have been passed down through generations,” said elder Pelenise Alofa. Historically, only women have been allowed to enter these caves, showing the importance and role of women in the Banaba community. “We performed dances and told the story of how the ancestors found the cave to the young. It’s part of the people of Banaba. I thought these problems would be solved, but they got worse,” said Alofa. The Banaba used to receive a compensation for what they had to endure. In 1976, a group of people sued the UK over the destruction of the island’s nature. The court then ruled that Britain had only a moral debt, not a legal obligation. In the end, the British government decided on behalf of the group to offer the Banaba people a good faith settlement of nearly $7.8 million, on condition that they waive all further legal action. Now, as the drought persists, the Banaba people are forced to continue their search for compensation and find a lasting solution. Looking for justice 6,000 people were forced to migrate from the island to the Fijian island of Rabi. “Banaba citizens living in Fiji and the diaspora in Auckland are eager to return to Banaba and connect with their homeland. But the devastation caused by mining operations leaves people with no other choice,” said Rae Baineti, director of the Kiribati Auteroa Diaspora Director. “As a social activist, I advise the younger generation to stand firm and be brave. I encourage them to dialogue to hold the government accountable for our destruction of land,” he added. An old cantilever used to load phosphates for ships. Photo: Guardian. Over-mining has also resulted in houses in Banaba being built with asbestos. This substance when inhaled can lead to two deadly diseases, lung cancer and mesothelioma. Mike McRae-Williams, an Australian environment expert with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, came to Banaba in 2008 to assess the severity of the situation. “This is a serious health hazard to the people who live here,” he said. “Instead of constantly giving stories like ‘poor Banaba people, no water, help them’, we should aim for an approach that is to find a reasonable solution,” said resident Teaiwa. While supporting the emergency rescue effort along with the Kiribati government, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade declined to comment on the Banaba residents’ request for New Zealand and Australia to address the root of the crisis. panic. Meanwhile, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade did not provide an answer to this issue.

Along with Dai Tu tea area, from 2005 up to now, Van Dien fused fertilizer and specialized multi-factor NPK fertilizer Van Dien have also been tested and gradually used for industrial crops in the northern mountainous provinces. . Through the process of using, Van Dien fertilizer has been bundled with production, has a brand and trust with people here. Although no additional lime is required, agricultural land is improved, reduced acidity and increased porosity, crops grow better, higher quality and help farmers reduce the amount of fertilizers and pesticides. diseases, protect the ecological environment, and at the same time reduce labor. Hoa Binh sugarcane growers choose Van Dien fertilizer because it helps to increase productivity, reduce pests and diseases and increase the quality of cane sugar. With white sugarcane, the tree is firm, not porous like when fertilizing with a lot of nitrogen, fresh water, not sour. Purple sugarcane color is smooth and dark purple, increasing the sweet and aromatic taste. When applying Van Dien fertilizer, purple sugarcane and white sugarcane all give long internodes, fat plants, blooming tops, bright green leaves, and hard plants. The Central Highlands has more than 1 million hectares planted with coffee, rubber and pepper trees, of which coffee accounts for nearly 70%, Sao rubber 20%, the rest is pepper. The soil is mainly red basalt and gray soil with thick, porous, well-drained cultivation layer, suitable for many crops, especially coffee, pepper and rubber. After liberation (1975), the Central Highlands’ land was strongly exploited, ethnic farmers here invested to intensively cultivate coffee, rubber, and pepper beyond the allowable limit to have the highest output, ten years. The crop grows well at the beginning, but gradually decreases in the following years due to the imbalance of nutrients in the soil. Due to the limited knowledge of gardeners, the massive use of chemical fertilizers leads to a decrease in yield, crop quality, and an increase in costs. From 1990 to 2013, Van Dien Fused Phosphate Company cooperated with scientists from the Central Highlands Agro-Forestry Science and Technology Institute to conduct many experiments to research and use Van Dien fertilizer for coffee plants. Coffee, pepper, rubber in the provinces of Kom Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Lam Dong… gave outstanding results. On red basalt soil, gray soil, the yield of 1kg of P2O5 in Van Dien fused phosphorus gave a bumper harvest of 31.6 – 33kg of green coffee, an increase of 11.2% compared to the control (other phosphate fertilizers). Especially on gray soil, the yield of 1kg of P2O5 in Van Dien fused phosphate fertilizer reached 31.7kg of green coffee, an increase of over 20% compared to other phosphate fertilizers, with pepper and rubber, Van Dien fused phosphate fertilizer. It also gives an increase in profit compared to other phosphate fertilizers from 8 to 15%. Especially, since 2010, a series of multi-factorial fertilization (DYT) experiments with Van Dien NPK for coffee, pepper and rubber were also carried out on red basalt and gray soils and gave very good results. different from other types of NPK. According to the new concept, clean agricultural production and organic agricultural products are not allowed to excessively use synthetic chemicals such as chemical fertilizers, plant protection drugs, growth stimulants, preservatives, and variable materials. genetic modification… but rather the use of manure, organic fertilizer, natural mineral fertilizer… is a technology to meet the balanced nutritional needs of plants, while maintaining and improving soil fertility, and protecting ecological environment, leaving no toxic residues in agricultural products, creating products of high quality, safe for users and bringing high economic efficiency to producers. Van Dien fertilizer completely meets the requirements of producing clean vegetables, safe vegetables, organic vegetables…: providing nutrients in each period according to the needs of plants. Vegetables and crops are fertilized with NPK multi-factor fertilizer – Van Dieu’s fused fertilizer in combination with nitrogen and potassium in appropriate proportions for each plant; not only bring high productivity, good quality of agricultural products, ensure safety for users; but also increase the resistance to pests, diseases, drought, cold and spill resistance, reduce the use of pesticides, protect the ecological environment. This is also the key to our country’s agricultural production, ensuring that crops grow well, are safe for the soil, products meet quality standards and confidently conquer the market.

The Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific Ocean. With approximately 12,000 inhabitants living on an area of ​​21 square kilometers, Nauru is the smallest country in the South Pacific Ocean, and the third smallest in the world by area. However, the island nation was once rich enough to rival Saudi Arabia thanks to its abundant phosphate deposits made up of bird droppings. Bird droppings accumulated centuries ago on this island. Phosphate is an important ingredient in fertilizer production. The huge reserves of phosphate on the island of Nauru are the result of bird droppings (guano) over several thousand years. Because phosphates are located close to the ground, humans can separate them easily. Nauru’s economy peaked in 1975 thanks to revenue from phosphate mining, when the island’s GDP per capita was estimated at $50,000, ranking 2nd in the world. Nauru’s economy boomed, people lived better without having to fish or cultivate or gather. Western lifestyle is also spreading here, making the locals more and more lazy and like fast food. With a huge amount of money from mining, Nauru built an airport, even bought 7 planes to serve traffic and tourism. “Not many people care about whether the investment is profitable or not. Dollars are even used as toilet paper. Life was like an everyday party,” recalls an unnamed former president of Nauru. As resources dried up and investors withdrew, Nauru was left with heavy environmental pollution and no main source of income. The fishing and agricultural sectors have been abandoned and polluted, while the people are too used to a life of enjoyment. To get the phosphates, workers had to peel off all the topsoil and separate the phosphates from the ancient coral columns. So, after the phosphate disappeared, only tall coral reefs and depressions between them were visible—a type of terrain where humans could not live or plant trees. The value of the investment fund managing the island’s resources also decreased. The fund also made many misguided investments in Air Nauru and overseas hotels. These investments never yield returns and even stifle the domestic economy. In Nauru, visitors will have nothing to visit because this island has only 30 km of roads, no museums, cultural heritage, hotels or even rivers and mountains to explore. Every year, only about 200 visitors come to Nauru and they are mainly social activists or scientific researchers. From a rich country, using dollars to make toilet paper, Nauru fell to a poor island nation with a GDP of only about 102 million USD, the second lowest in the world after Tuvalu. About 90% of Nauruans are unemployed and corruption and money laundering are rampant. The people of Nauru instead of finding their way to economic development, they leave their fate to international aid as well as look for cheap imported food sources, which contain a lot of fat and sugar such as low nutrition, from Australia or New Zealand. Please watch the video: Beautiful natural scenery in the least populous countries in the world

The model born in 1995 makes the audience admire her slender body, toned body with no excess fat, clear number 11 abs makes women jealous. This set of photos taken by Kendall Jenner at her family villa in Palm Springs (California, USA) over the weekend, when the whole family gathered to celebrate Easter. Regardless of the posture, she shows her beautiful body, super flat 2 of the model is 1m79 tall. Yesterday, Kendall Jenner and billionaire sister Kylie Jenner (SN 1997) returned to Los Angeles from the private jet of the owner of the brand Kylie Cosmetics. Although they are only pictures that are hunted from a distance, they still show the perfect body of the “world’s most expensive supermodel” 2018, according to Forbes’ income statistics. Kylie Jenner also released a sexy selfie right next to her private jet when she was in Los Angeles Before that, Kendall Jenner also made fans lose heart when posting pictures of a bloody flower bikini, showing off the perfect body that tens of thousands of girls dreamed of. Possessing a doll face and body “ten thousand people love”, Kendall Jenner is currently the new generation of fashion’s top long legs, next to the models Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Kaia Gerbe …

An old phosphorus mine in Florida.

According to information from the BBC, China uses rare earths as a trump card in the trade war with the US. China has signaled that it could limit exports of rare earth minerals to the US as the trade conflict between the two countries escalates.

By far, China is the largest producer of raw materials vital to many US industries including high-growth industries such as electric vehicles and wind turbine manufacturing. The US Geological Survey has determined these minerals are very important to the economy and defense of this country.

Restricting exports to the US, if implemented, could have a major impact on major US industries worth trillions of dollars that rely on rare earth minerals.

Rare earths are a valuable resource that plays an important role in the industry.

Rare earth is a group of 17 elements used in many fields, including renewable energy technology, oil refining, electronics, … Called “rare” because they are difficult to exploit. This raw material is believed to be in the Earth’s crust. There are very few places in the world that exploit or produce rare earths because rare earth exploitation is both difficult and potentially harmful to the environment.

Rare earth exploitation is very difficult and poses a risk to the environment.

Currently, Chinese mines account for about 70% of global rare earth production. Myanmar, Australia, the US and some other countries only exploit a small amount, accounting for the remaining 30%.

According to US government data, about 80% of imported rare earths come from China. Estonia, France and Japan also supply treated rare earths to the US, but the original ore is from China.

The US mines rare earths and sends ore to China for processing, but China has imposed a 25% import tax. Consequently, the United States considered developing its own rare earth refining industry.

Information from the New York Times and Bloomberg said that the US is seeing the potential to exploit rare earth from old phosphorus mines in Florida. The process of handling leaked waste here helps to protect the environment and is an opportunity to reduce dependence on rare earths from China.

China is holding back most of the world’s rare earth supply.

A sewage leak at an old phosphorus mine in Florida prompted authorities to issue an evacuation order and declare a state of emergency near the Tampa area amid a potential collapse of the mine’s radioactive waste. Cleaning up the forgotten giant pile of phosphorus scattered in Florida and other parts of the southeastern United States could help resolve America’s dependence on important imported raw materials, while eliminating Threats of environmental disaster are lurking in the local people.

Phosphorus is a byproduct of the production of fertilizers from phosphate rock. For every ton of organic phosphoric acid produced, more than five tons of phosphorus are produced. This waste is worthless in its raw form due to the concentration of uranium, radium and other heavy metals making it radioactive toxic, unable to be used as soil amendment or building material.

According to the study, there is a large amount of rare earths and radioactive metals present in phosphorus piles in Florida. However, those are not the only scarce metals that can be found in phosphorus ores. Rare earths are a collection of elements that are important for high-tech applications such as magnets and lasers. A 2017 analysis by the US-China research group showed that rare earths are present at a rate of about 0.2% in a waste pile of about 1 billion tons in Florida, equivalent to two million tons of rare earths, enough to cover global demand for a decade.

Many laboratory studies have been done to look at phosphorus recycling processes. However, prices for phosphorus, rare earths and uranium have been mostly curbed in recent years to limit the commercial appeal of phosphorus recycling around the world.

Every year, the US government spends a substantial amount of money monitoring and managing risks at the old phosphorus mine in Florida. The US plans to spend about $ 111 billion to clean water pipes and water infrastructure.

Under the Donald Trump administration last year, the US environmental protection agency authorized the use of raw phosphorus as road construction materials. However, the cost of waste treatment here is so high that investors are still afraid.

The US government has to spend a lot of money on the treatment of the phosphorus mine in Florida.

Huge open-pit ponds the size of the entire city block, filled with toxic wastewater, and underneath there is a lot of radioactive waste.

Recently, local officials allowed residents to return home after an urgent effort to pump millions of gallons of water out of ponds and into inland waterways. The environmental impacts of releasing large amounts of polluted water have not been evaluated. But in the past week, the “ghost” of a great cataclysm caused the government to evacuate hundreds of households from the dangerous area.

Researchers fear that, when giant puddles collapsed, radioactive waste will leak, it will lead to unpredictable dangers. The environment will be affected by the emergency discharge of polluted water, which contains many substances that can cause harmful algae to bloom and kill fish.

Wastewater in the area near Wilmington in North Carolina.

Florida is considered the largest producer of phosphorus in the world, accounting for about 80% of phosphorus mining in the US – where the exploitation and consumption of about 23 million tons of phosphorus per year.

When coal-fired power plants generate electricity, they leave hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic sediment known as coal ash, mixed with water and dumped into ponds within the plant.

Across the United States there are more than 700 landfills and large bodies of water still store coal ash discharged from coal-fired power plants. Under the Obama administration, there were regulations to close coal ash ponds in 2018. Currently, the North Carolina region authorities also began requiring power companies to dig coal ash ponds under the new law. state, also requiring the closure of all coal ash ponds by 2029./.