Michigan Is Dealing With Floods, Failing Dams and the Pandemic

May 21, 2020 / activist360 / Leave a comment

In Midland, Michigan, days of heavy rain caused two dams to fail forcing 10,000 people to evacuate. Midland is home to 42,000 people and the Dow Chemical Company’s main plant. If the flood water overtakes the plant’s
levees, experts worry hazardous chemicals could wash downstream. Coverage by Vice News.

California’s Burning, and Farmworkers Are Still in the Fields

November 9, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

The Chernobyl Wasteland From Above

October 3, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Fifty thousand people lived in Pripyat, Ukraine before the Soviet Union ordered a complete evacuation following what remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in 1986. The town stands as a stark reminder of the danger inherent in nuclear power.

VICE News visited the town to see how the site has dealt with the cleanup and to find out what the future holds for the location of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.