{"id":4104,"date":"2022-07-18T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:50:19","slug":"accidental-yahoo-reuters-disaster-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2022\/07\/18\/accidental-yahoo-reuters-disaster-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Yahoo-Reuters disaster poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/russian-river-turns-acid-orange-175332337.html\" title=\"Two years ago this week. I heard nothing about it at the time.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-3.47.52-PM.png\" alt=\"Russian river turns &#039;acid&#039; orange after mine spill July 23, 2020 Russia\u2019s \u2018acid\u2019 river is devastating nearby nature Location: Sverdlovsk The streams turned orange after a spill from a nearby abandoned copper mine (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ECOLOGIST, ANDREI VOLEGOV, SAYING: &quot;Sulfuric acid reaction takes place here and this sulfuric acid burns out everything in the area - soil, trees, destroys the surface layer, grass, fish die. All these heavy metals in soluble form should not be in the water.&quot; Volegov says an accident in 1997 caused the mine to flood the consequences were never fully resolved Now the water comes up through the mine shafts and causes a chemical reaction (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RESIDENT OF LEVIKHA VILLAGE, VALERY SAYAPIN, SAYING: &quot;Previously there was a variety of fish, but now that&#039;s what we have.&quot; JOURNALIST ASKING: &quot;Because of the mine? &quot;The mine waters are down there, where there are old quarries, but here on the pond there is nothing like that.&quot; (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RESIDENT OF LEVIKHA VILLAGE, NAIL, SAYING: &quot;How can this not be poison? All the acid goes into the river, there is no fish now, there is nothing there.&quot; Russian prosecutors are now checking the facility and have launched an official investigation\" width=\"822\" height=\"1265\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-3.47.52-PM.png 822w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-3.47.52-PM-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-3.47.52-PM-665x1024.png 665w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-3.47.52-PM-768x1182.png 768w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-3.47.52-PM-788x1213.png 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-headlines-and-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}