Polish factory farms cause a stink
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Julianna Kettlewell visits one of Poland's new pig factories to explore the shift from traditional agriculture to intensive methods of production.
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As urbanites with rising incomes are demanding better air and water, the countryside is increasingly becoming a dumping ground.
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By LARKIN, Juliet  WORM farming might be a solution for more environmentally friendly processing of dairy effluent, said a Cromwell worm farmer, who is facing growing demand for his worms.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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By Jacqueline L. Urgo, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 17--ABSECON, N.J. -- Kim Bannister walks out her front door and sighs.   Her concrete driveway is covered with large pools of stinking bird excrement and rotting crab shells.
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Manure generated on large U.S. livestock farms, which can later contaminate soil and water, has lead to a fierce debate over whether farmers and ranchers should be held responsible for cleaning up the mess.
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By Ryan Schuster, The Bakersfield Californian  Sep. 18--Plenty of dust has been kicked up at the Kern County Fair's  livestock division in recent years -- and not all of it has come from the  animals.
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New ventilation units blast curtains of purified air between patients and nurses in Washington Hospital Center's emergency room. Outside, yellow tarpaulins and water taps can decontaminate people on the sidewalk.
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By Barbara Carmen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 14--The leaky water system at a South Side steel plant, cited by the state for polluting air and water, is so archaic that it still uses hollowed logs as pipes.
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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.
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About two million tubs of Clover are recalled after being contaminated with mould at a Shropshire factory.
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NOEL, Mo. - The state is investigating complaints about the foul stench of rotting chicken wafting from the Tyson Foods Inc...
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About 200 homes in County Antrim may have been built near contaminated land on a former textiles factory.
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CONCORD, N.H. - Wanted: A few good snouts to help the city snuff out smells. As part of a plan to address complaints about odors from a wastewater treatment plant, city officials have hired a Massachusetts firm to identify and quantify exactly what smells are bothering residents.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 20-- -- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers told federal investigators several years ago about contaminated dirt piles around the factory that in recent months were reported as newly discovered, 32-year employee Chris Naas says.
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DUVANNY YAR, Russia  - Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.