NYU GPH Journal of Public Health Disasters
A student-led journal driven by the latest research in public health disaster preparedness and management.
Pakistan’s pollution has reached catastrophic levels as the smog is now visible from space. Within Lahore, a city in northern Pakistan, a thick fog covers most of the town, and visibility is so low that motorways have to be shut down. While the whole country is impacted, Pakistan’s poorer populations are facing the brunt of this ecological disaster as there are little to no means of protection for them.
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On the evening of Sunday March 26, officials retracted a bottled water advisory made that morning. This advisory was issued after a pipe rupture at the Trinseo PLC chemical plant, which released about 8,100 gallons of an acrylic polymer solution into Otter Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This incident took place around a month after a similar chemical leak from a train in East Palestine, Ohio.
Continue reading “Philadelphia Officials Monitor Water Supply Following Chemical Spill”
The Bhopal Gas Disaster is considered one of the world’s worst industrial incidents. In December of 1984, a defective tank from the U.S.-owned Union Carbide Company began leaking 42 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas into its surrounding environment. Hundreds of thousands of individuals were exposed to high concentrations of MIC gas due to the chemical plant’s storage tanks’ poorly-designed safety systems.
Continue reading “Shelagh Herzog Presents Bhopal Gas Disaster: An Enduring Tragedy”