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Cookware made with scrap metal contaminates food
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Aluminum cookware made from scrap metal in countries around the world poses a serious and previously unrecognized health risk to millions of people according to...
Chinese human rights lawyers set their sights on smog
Jan 22, 2017 (AFP)
Toxic smog has found itself in the dock in China, as the authorities are taken to court over a problem that has choked entire regions, put public health at risk...
Advanced cookstoves provide environmental benefits, but less than expected
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that while advanced wood-burning cookstoves can provid...
Trump could enact sweeping changes to environment policy
Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)
President-elect Donald Trump could enact sweeping changes to environmental policy in the beginning days of his administration, with far-reaching effects both in...
China tells local meteorological bureaus to stop smog alerts
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
China is suspending local meteorological bureaus from issuing smog alerts, media reported Wednesday, raising suspicions the government is attempting to suppress...
Slovenian dogs sent 'crazy' by road salting mix-up
Jan 17, 2017 (AFP)
Dogs in a small Slovenian town went "crazy", according to a local newspaper, after salt from a dry-cured ham factory was mistakenly used to de-ice snowy roads. ...
US contributes $500-million to UN Green Climate Fund
Jan 17, 2017 (AFP)
The outgoing Barack Obama administration announced Tuesday a contribution of half a billion dollars to the UN Green Climate Fund, just three days before Donald ...
Researchers develop environmentally friendly soy air filter
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Washington State University researchers have developed a soy-based air filter that can capture toxic chemicals, such as carbon monoxide and formaldehyde, which ...
E-waste rising dangerously in Asia: UN study
Jan 15, 2017 (AFP)
Electronic waste is rising sharply across Asia as higher incomes allow hundreds of millions of people to buy smartphones and other gadgets, with serious consequ...
Study describes new method to remove nickel from contaminated seawater
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
The same deposit that builds up in many tea kettles or water pipes in areas where calcium-rich water is the norm might be just the (cheap) ticket to rid contami...
Judge orders Beirut dump shut after birds threaten flights
Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)
A judge has ordered the temporary closure of a rubbish dump near Beirut airport after warnings that birds attracted by the garbage were threatening aircraft saf...
New lease of life for Jakarta's once-filthy rivers
Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)
A group of children gathered on the banks of the Ciliwung river in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, staring into the water and casting nets to try to catch fish....
Father of Russian environmental movement dies
Jan 11, 2017 (AFP)
Leading Russian ecological campaigner Alexei Yablokov, the founder of Greenpeace Russia and one of the pioneers of the post-Soviet environmental movement, has d...
Air pollution and lack of physical activity pose competing threats to children in China
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Children and adolescents in mainland China are facing two serious and conflicting public health threats: ongoing exposure to air pollution and an increasingly s...
U.S. Army seeking biodegradable bullets
Jan 10, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Army has posted a solicitation for biodegradable ammunition to be used during training exercises. In the solicitation, the Army notes the branch manufa...
Where is heavy air pollution in Beijing from
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
Beijing's latest smog alert has dragged on into the first week of 2017. In fact, the joint prevention and control policy for atmospheric pollution in the Beijin...
Mayor of Beijing promises new environmental police force
Jan 08, 2017 (UPI)
At a meeting over the weekend, Beijing's acting mayor Mayor Cai Qi announced the creation of an environmental police force. It was one of several solutions for ...
Slovak 'Wastebusters' on anti-litter crusade
Jan 06, 2017 (AFP)
Slovak financial analyst Rastislav Krul and his wife once waited out an hour-long traffic jam by picking up several bags worth of rubbish around a rest area off...
Beijing starts 2017 under a cloud
Jan 01, 2017 (AFP)
Beijing woke on the first morning of the New Year covered in thick toxic fog, with a concentration of harmful particles 20 times higher than international stand...
Obama criticized after monument designation
Dec 29, 2016 (UPI)
A stark supporter of the oil and gas industry said President Obama was again sidelining state authority with the designation of two new national monument sites....
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