The Loyal Asbestos of Rouen
Four years after the Lubrizol and Normandie Logistique fires and the scattering of fragments of asbestos roofs in and around Rouen, the total fire and collapse of two disused buildings on Saturday, September 30, 2023 released and projected micro and macro asbestos waste and billions of fibres invisible to the naked eye, carcinogenic to mammalian lungs and clogging fish gills.
The Cursed Dnieper
The earliest terrorist act with the intention to flood a city goes back to the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. In 1209, in order to put a quicker end to the siege on Yinchuan, the capital of the Western Xia dynasty (now in north-west China), Genghis Khan set out with his troops to divert a branch of the Huang He, the Yellow River. The makeshift dam broke and the ploy backfired. It was Genghis Khan’s camp that was flooded.
