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Plastic paradise: Hong Kong's packaging problem
Feb 02, 2016 (AFP)
A little girl shrieks with excitement as she strolls along the beach: "Oh look mummy. Hong Kong snow." Despite the cold snap what she's pointing to is not a met...
China-based startup aims to monitor pollution
Feb 01, 2016 (AFP)
A China-based startup firm launched a campaign Monday to fund a project which would allow people to monitor air pollution locally, and to crowd-source data on t...
Rubbish piles up in India's pollution-hit capital
Feb 01, 2016 (AFP)
Rubbish piled up on New Delhi's streets on Monday as refuse collectors vowed to push ahead with a nearly week-long strike, the latest crisis to hit the world's ...
Benin: turning the scourge of fishermen into a resource
Jan 31, 2016 (AFP)
A dug-out canoe speeds along the water then slows down suddenly before stopping altogether. Blocking its path are water hyacinths as far as the eye can see. It'...
Human impact has created a 'plastic planet,'
Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)
Planet Earth's oceans and lands will be buried by increasing layers of plastic waste by the mid-century due to human activity, according to research led by the ...
Acquittals over Hungary toxic spill spark outrage
Jan 28, 2016 (AFP)
Victims of Hungary's worst ever toxic spill, which killed 10 people and injured 150 in 2010, voiced outrage after the boss of the alumina plant that caused the ...
Angola's chaotic capital chokes under mountains of trash
Jan 28, 2016 (AFP)
For half an hour, the passenger boat sat stranded off the coast of Angola's seaside capital Luanda. Streams of rubbish clogged its engine as it attempted to ent...
Highly efficient heavy metal ions filter
Jan 27, 2016 (SPX)
In November 2015, Brazil experienced an unparalleled environmental disaster. When two dams broke at an iron ore mine, a poisonous cocktail of heavy metals was s...
Spain court finds captain, British insurer liable for Prestige oil spill
Jan 26, 2016 (AFP)
Spain's Supreme Court said Tuesday it had found the captain, British insurer and owner of an oil tanker that broke up off northwestern Spain in 2002 liable for ...
Toxic chemicals found in most outdoor gear: Greenpeace
Jan 25, 2016 (AFP)
Greenpeace said Monday that hazardous chemicals were "widely present" in a range of outdoor gear it tested, from clothing and footwear to backpacks, tents and s...
Lead poisoning strikes another US town
Jan 25, 2016 (AFP)
A lead poisoning scandal has struck a second US town, with schools closed Monday in Sebring, Ohio, and the water treatment plant operator accused of falsifying ...
Former US auto hub reeling from tainted water scandal
Jan 22, 2016 (AFP)
For months, people in Flint, Michigan -- a dying industrial town in the American heartland -- consumed water contaminated with lead. And the country ignored it....
Most Chinese cities fail air quality standards in 2015: Greenpeace
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
Nearly 300 Chinese cities failed to meet national standards for air quality last year, Greenpeace said Wednesday, despite marginal improvements in some of the w...
Students design 'plant backpack' to combat air pollution
Jan 18, 2016 (AFP)
Five Dutch students have hit on a unique idea to replace face masks used against air pollution, and are developing a "plant backpack" to give wearers instant fr...
India's smog-choked capital ends car ban trial
Jan 14, 2016 (AFP)
New Delhi wrapped up Friday a controversial trial of driving restrictions that took about a million cars off its roads, with arguments still raging about whethe...
Romania village wins protected status, blocking Canada mine plans
Jan 14, 2016 (AFP)
A Romanian village where a Canadian firm is planning a controversial open-cast goldmine has been declared a site of historical interest, granting it protection ...
Brazilian police charge companies in mine waste spill
Jan 14, 2016 (AFP)
Police in Brazil said Thursday they have brought criminal charges against two mining companies and seven executives over a mine waste spill that buried a villag...
Residents fear for health in car-clogged Albanian capital
Jan 13, 2016 (AFP)
With her sick daughter in the arms, Mira Lela pushes her way through the hallway of the doctor's clinic, crowded with patients ailing from heavy pollution in Al...
Delhi court rejects challenge to car restrictions
Jan 11, 2016 (AFP)
A Delhi court on Monday rejected a legal challenge to driving restrictions aimed at reducing pollution in the smog-choked Indian capital. The court said the Del...
Global mercury regulations to have major economic benefits for US
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
Mercury pollution is a global problem with local consequences: Emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources travel around the world through the atmo...
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