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Reuters: Toxic red sludge from a Hungarian alumina plant reached the Danube on Thursday and crews struggled to dilute it to protect the river from what the prime minister called an "unprecedented ecological catastrophe." Experts said damage beyond the borders of Hungary was unlikely to be great but the threat had to be monitored closely. Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for Hungarian disaster crews, told Reuters there were sporadic fish deaths in the Raba and the Mosoni-Danube rivers. He said ......
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Toxic Hungarian sludge spill reaches River Danube
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 7th, 2010
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