Inquinamento atmosferico industriale arancione-rosa pallido sospeso nell'aria ferma e nella luce solare forte - nel settembre 2007 - sopra l'isola di Krk, nella baia del Mare Adriatico settentrionale di Kvarner, Croazia. Immagine catturata da sopra Jadranovo, un villaggio di pescatori continentale della Riviera di Crikvenica ora cedute principalmente al turismo.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2 settembre 2007
Ubicazione:
Jadranovo and Krk Island, Bay of Kvarner, Croatia.
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Jadranovo, Bay of Kvarner, Croatia: a layer of orange-pink atmospheric pollution hanging heavily, in sunshine and still air in September 2007, above and beyond the arid rocky shores and scrubland of Krk Island. This image was captured from above the small mainland coastal settlement of Jadranovo, a Crikvenica Riviera fishing village now given over mainly to tourism. Recorded levels of atmospheric pollutants such as sulphur / sulfur dioxide (SO2) have increased along Croatia's northern Adriatic coast ever since the Second World War. Post-war development, initially led by tourism, included the building of Rijeka International Airport and the transformation of the town of Omišalj, on Krk Island, into a popular resort. Since 1980, Krk Island has been connected to the mainland, just northwest of Jadranovo, by one the world's longest reinforced concrete bridge. Industrial activity in later decades has included shipbuilding further north at Rijeka, which is Croatia's principal seaport, its third largest city and also the municipal capital of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. An oil terminal and petrochemicals refinery has also been built at Omišalj, and in January 2021, it gained facilities to handle LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas). The plant is able to receive large LNG carrier ships, to store the fuel in liquid form and then to transform it into gas to be pumped into trans-European pipelines. D1349.B7990
