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Chinese capital to keep schoolchildren indoors as smog alert returns
Dec 06, 2015 (AFP)
Schools in the Chinese capital were ordered Sunday to keep children indoors in the coming days, when the city's notorious choking smog is forecast to return. Al...
India's capital to restrict cars to curb choking smog
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
Private vehicles will only be allowed on Delhi's roads on alternate days from January, authorities said Friday, as the world's most polluted capital tries to cl...
China pollution pledge hopes to soothe smog fears: analysts
Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese pledge to upgrade the nation's coal-fired power plants to cut pollution is aimed mainly at soothing domestic fears over dangerous smog, rather than ta...
India court demands action over Delhi's filthy air
Dec 02, 2015 (AFP)
India's environmental court slammed the Delhi government on Wednesday for failing to improve its notoriously toxic air, as the capital spent another day blanket...
Clean mining yields 'green gold' in Colombia
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
Gold mining can be a dirty, bloody business, but a village in Colombia has been rewarded for an ethical model -- producing clean "green gold" which has seduced ...
China orders factories shut as smog nightmare continues
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
China has ordered thousands of factories to shut as it grapples with swathes of choking smog that were nearly 24 times safe levels on Tuesday, casting a shadow ...
Beijing factories shut amid smog nightmare
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
Beijing ordered hundreds of factories to shut and allowed children to skip school as choking smog reached over 25 times safe levels on Tuesday, casting a cloud ...
China smog at crippling levels as climate talks open
Nov 30, 2015 (AFP)
Choking smog blanketed Beijing and much of northern China Monday as climate change talks opened in Paris and a new Chinese report raised the alarm about rising ...
Beijing issues orange alert for heavy smog
Nov 29, 2015 (AFP)
Beijing on Sunday issued its highest-level smog alert this year and urged residents to stay indoors as dangerous air pollution continued to cloak swathes of nor...
Brazil to sue dam spill mining companies for $5.2 bn
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil's government said Friday it will sue mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale for $5.2 billion in clean-up costs and damages after the deadly collapse of a wa...
On polluted Rio island, Brazilian ecologist dreams of miracle
Nov 22, 2015 (AFP)
Striding through garbage and abandoned fuel installations on an island in Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay, Brazilian ecologist Sergio Ricardo comes to a...
Sludge from deadly Brazil mine accident reaches the Atlantic
Nov 22, 2015 (AFP)
The torrent of mud and toxic mineral waste that buried a Brazilian village earlier this month has reached the Atlantic Ocean after a long passage down the Doce ...
Greenpeace India's shutdown halted temporarily, group says
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
An Indian court on Friday temporarily suspended an order cancelling Greenpeace India's operating licence in the country, the group said, the latest twist in its...
Mine spill Brazil's worst environmental catastrophe: minister
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
A deadly mine waste spill that buried a village and contaminated a river basin two weeks ago is the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history, the envir...
Pharmaceuticals and other contaminants of emerging concern
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
An increasing amount of drugs taken by humans and animals make it into our streams and waterways, and pharmaceutical pollution has had catastrophic ecosystem co...
Commercial sea salt samples purchased in China contaminated with microplastics
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, in...
Rural migration has negative effects on Chinese cities
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Over the past three decades, China has seen a significant migration of its population from rural areas to cities. During the same time period, poor air quality ...
China smog hits 'record' levels
Nov 09, 2015 (AFP)
A swathe of China was blanketed with acrid smog Monday after levels of dangerous particulates reached around 50 times World Health Organization maximums, in wha...
Greenpeace says India operating licence cancelled
Nov 06, 2015 (AFP)
Greenpeace said Friday Indian authorities have scrapped its licence to operate in the country, the latest in an ongoing battle between the environmental group a...
India's choked capital fails to collect new 'pollution toll'
Nov 02, 2015 (AFP)
New Delhi has failed to collect a new "pollution toll" from trucks entering the city, officials said Monday, just one day after the levy was introduced to impro...
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