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Anti-pollution activists cover London statues with masks
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
British environmental activists put face masks on famous statues across London on Monday including the one of Horatio Nelson on Trafalgar Square to draw attenti...
India's smog-choked capital imposes driving restrictions
Apr 15, 2016 (AFP)
New Delhi on Friday imposed driving restrictions that will take around a million cars off its roads for the second time this year, seeking to improve air qualit...
Combined effects of copper and climate can be deadly for amphibians
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory warn that the extinction to two amphibian species - the southern toad and the south...
Botero sculptures centerstage in Colombia pollution protest
Apr 08, 2016 (AFP)
Sculptures by Colombia's most famous artist, the world-renowned Fernando Botero, unwittingly found themselves thrust into the midst of an anti-pollution protest...
Moss is useful bioindicator of cadmium air pollution, new study finds
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
Moss growing on urban trees is a useful bio-indicator of cadmium air pollution in Portland, Oregon, a U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station-led...
Pollution woes to keep 40 percent of cars off Mexico City roads
Apr 06, 2016 (AFP)
The environmental authorities in Mexico City will keep 40 percent of cars off the roads on Wednesday because of extremely high pollution levels, officials said....
Common pesticides kill amphibian parasites
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
The combined effects of pesticides and parasites threaten wildlife populations worldwide (e.g. amphibians, honeybees). Pesticides are predicted to exacerbate th...
Mercury rising?
Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)
Gold mining in California in the 19th century was a boon for the state's economy but not so much for the environment. Mining left a protracted legacy that impac...
Beirut trash clean-up begins as critics cry foul
Mar 20, 2016 (AFP)
Workers began at the weekend removing tonnes of rubbish that have piled up around Lebanon's capital under a government plan to end an eight-month crisis that ha...
Israel Bedouins trapped between a dump and red tape
Mar 18, 2016 (AFP)
The almost unbearable stench of the dump fades for a moment when Musa Tarabin puts freshly ground coffee into a pot of water boiling over open coals. Tarabin li...
Mexico City lifts air pollution alert
Mar 18, 2016 (AFP)
Mexican officials late Thursday lifted a four-day air pollution alert in the nation's densely-populated capital after ozone levels dropped to acceptable levels....
'Chemical Chernobyl': activists say toxic dump threatens St. Petersburg
Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)
Environmental activists call it the "chemical Chernobyl", a vast toxic waste dump outside Saint Petersburg they say is a dangerous threat to the environment of ...
More cars banned in Mexico City after pollution alert
Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)
More cars were ordered off Mexico City's streets on Wednesday after a surge in pollution prompted authorities to issue the first air quality alert in 14 years. ...
Pigeon patrol deployed to measure London air pollution
Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)
Ten pigeons armed with air pollution detectors on their backs were released into the London sky on Wednesday to monitor pollution in the British capital, organi...
Lebanon 'You Stink' protesters slow traffic on key highways
Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)
Lebanese protesters slowed rush hour traffic on several highways leading towards Beirut on Monday after authorities said they would reopen a landfill to ease an...
Lebanon announces 'fix' to trash crisis amid protests
Mar 12, 2016 (AFP)
Lebanon said on Saturday it would temporarily reopen a landfill to ease an eight-month rubbish crisis as thousands of people demonstrated in Beirut against the ...
Flint: US city of blight, flight and poisoned water
Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)
Agence France-Presse has launched a weekly series of reporters' blogs taking readers behind the scenes of the 2016 US election for a look at the events and atti...
Unilever settles dispute over mercury poisoning in India
Mar 09, 2016 (AFP)
The Indian arm of global consumer giant Unilever Wednesday said it had reached a a deal with hundreds of former employees to end a long-running dispute over all...
Indian guru's festival set to go ahead despite outcry
Mar 09, 2016 (AFP)
India's top green court Wednesday gave the go-ahead to a mass festival organised by a world-famous guru to be held on the floodplains of Delhi's Yamuna river, d...
In activist video, rivers of rubbish flow in Lebanon
Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)
Activists poked fun at the Lebanese tourism ministry over a video it commissioned showing natural beauty by releasing their own aerial footage of garbage fester...
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