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It’s been almost a year since a barge transporting coal ash from Puerto Rico to a landfill in Folkston, Georgia, spilled more than 5,000 tons of the toxic industrial byproduct into the ocean off Atlantic Beach.
The Jacksonville Waterways Commission doesn't have the U.S. Coast Guard report on the barge Bridgeport's spill, but talked about facing future risks.
In Transylvania, a New Hotel Is Carrying Tradition Into the Future Fiona Kerr © Philip Vile/Bethlen Estates Transylvania Cut off from the rest of Romania by the arc of the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania still embodies a certain rural self-sufficiency. There are few better examples than the picturesque village of Criș, from which Count Miklós Bethlen fled in 1948 during the rise of the Soviet Union. But even after settling in Austria, he never abandoned the place his ancestors founded some 800 years prior: “When he returned in 1967, he found his ancestral home in ruin...