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    Sri Lanka Faces An Environmental Disaster As A Ship Full Of Chemicals Starts Sinking

    Beaches are coated with plastic pellets and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.
    by Laurel Wamsley Jun 02, 2021 2 minutes
    Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship X-Press Pearl on Wednesday. The ship carries 81 dangerous goods containers, including 25 tons of nitric acid, some of which has already leaked.

    A cargo ship carrying chemicals and plastic pellets has been burning off the coast of Sri Lanka for nearly two weeks. Now, efforts to tow the ship to deeper waters have failed – and the boat sinking looks increasingly likely.

    The ship, the X-Press Pearl, was 1,486 containers. Eighty-one of those were dangerous goods containers, including 25

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