Public radio’s longest-running daily global news program.
©2025 The World from PRX
PRX is a 501(c)(3) organization recognized by the IRS: #263347402.

The BBC’s Nick Thorpe is in Kolontar, in Hungary, where caustic sludge broke through a waste reservoir at an alumina plant and appears to be headed toward the Danube River. The event is being called Europe’s worst environmental disaster in decades.
The BBC’s Nick Thorpe is in Kolontar, in southwestern Hungary, where caustic sludge broke through a waste reservoir at an alumina plant and appears to be headed toward the Danube River. The event is being called Europe’s worst environmental disaster in decades.