A chemical-filled cargo ship has caused an environmental disaster in Sri Lanka (S2E21)

Our story in focus this week is about the cargo ship that burnt off the coast of Sri Lanka. So much debris and dangerous chemicals have been released from the ship, that it is now on track to be the one of the worst environmental disasters.

As part of the seven overlooked stories in this week’s episode, we will also touch on stories that range from how an artist made real US$18,000 from imaginary art, the executive from the Make-A-Wish foundation that embezzled money, and to new that scientists may have now sequenced the entirety of the human genome.

#Podcast    #CurrentAffairs  #SriLanka #XPressPearl

Visit the blog (https://taplink.cc/tunukamedia) for pictures and references.
© 2021 TunukaMedia 

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:44 A chemical-filled cargo ship has caused an environmental disaster in Sri Lanka
• 5:19 An Italian artist has auctioned off an ‘invisible sculpture’ for US$18,000
• 8:30 Former Make-A-Wish executive confesses to embezzling thousands from the charity
• 10:15 Two billion people to face water shortages as ice on the world’s highest mountains melts, warns UNDP
• 11:42 The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again
• 13:55 World’s richest tin mine pollutes rivers serving Amazon Indigenous villages
• 15:13 Scientists say they’ve finally sequenced the entire human genome. Yes, all of It.
• 18:22 Outro