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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
late.

- Nicole Krause
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Source www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
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Cancer rates in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan are 22 -51
higher than the national average in Azerbaijan.
Source www.blacksmithinstitute.org/photos1.php
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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
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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
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Norilsk, Russia has the worlds largest heavy
metals smelting complex. Its operation releases
4 million tons of Cd, Cu, Pb, Ni, As, Se, and Zn
in the air annually.
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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
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The area of the Wilkins Ice Shelf is
approximately the size of Northern Ireland
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. or equal in size to 6 7 Manhattan Islands.
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