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Trump's environment pick confirmed, drawing cheers from industry
Jan 29, 2025 (AFP)
Lee Zeldin, a former US congressman from New York, has committed to Trump's campaign pledges of boosting US energy dominance and rolling back environmental regu...
Bacteria found to eat forever chemicals - and even some of their toxic byproducts
Jan 27, 2025 (SPX)
Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but certain microbes can actually break apart the strong ch...
Paraguayan orchestra turning trash into tunes stage London show
Jan 27, 2025 (AFP)
On Sunday evening, the 16-year-old Paraguayan played his drum -- made from discarded pallet wood, X-ray panels and copper rods -- in the opulent setting of Lond...
Bangkok air pollution forces 352 schools to close
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
Bangkok officials also announced free public transport for a week in a bid to reduce traffic in a city notorious for noxious exhaust fumes. Seasonal air polluti...
France asks EU to delay rights, environment business rules
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
The call comes as Brussels has vowed to make life easier for firms complaining about excessive regulation, as the 27-nation bloc scrambles to revamp its economi...
French city Nice limits big cruise ships
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
The order signed by the mayor of the Nice urban area, Christian Estrosi, prohibits cruise ships carrying more than 900 passengers from putting them ashore for s...
Smog chokes Baghdad as oil-fired factories belch out smoke
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
In winter, a thick smog frequently envelops the city of nine million people as the fumes belched out by its many oil-fired factories are trapped by a layer of c...
Ice in the sky: Thailand's fight against air pollution
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
This is Thailand's desperate, unproven attempt at reducing the oppressive air pollution over its capital, which on Thursday reached eight times the World Health...
Sarajevo among world's most polluted cities, again
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
The concentration of fine particles in Sarajevo in the afternoon was 47 times higher than the World Health Organization's threshold. The city's air quality inde...
Netherlands must lower nitrogen emissions, court rules
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
In a rare sanction for the state, a court in The Hague said the Dutch government had not made enough effort to halt the progressive decline of several EU protec...
Nepal's top court bars infrastructure in protected areas
Jan 16, 2025 (AFP)
A fifth of Nepal's lands are designated as protected areas. But both hydropower projects and tourism are major earners, and the government passed laws last year...
Spain busts network illegally importing Italian waste
Jan 14, 2025 (AFP)
The Civil Guard began investigating after detecting urban waste that had entered Spain with forged documents and was destined for landfills without being treate...
Mystery balls close nine Sydney beaches
Jan 14, 2025 (AFP)
Beaches closed until further notice included tourist hotspots Manly and Dee Why, the city's Northern Beaches Council said in a statement. "So far, most samples ...
Oil spill reaches Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region: official
Jan 11, 2025 (AFP)
Two ageing tankers were hit by storms in mid-December in the Kerch Strait between Crimea and southern Russia, with one breaking apart and sinking and the other ...
Heavy fuel oil makes Black Sea spill hard to clean up
Jan 08, 2025 (AFP)
- Heavy fuel to blame - The Kerch Strait between Russia and the Moscow-annexed peninsula of Crimea was polluted after two Russian oil tankers sank during a stor...
The ancient copper industry in King Solomon's mines did not pollute the environment
Jan 07, 2025 (SPX)
In the new study, researchers conducted geochemical surveys at copper production sites in the Timna Valley, dating back to the 10th century BCE and the era of t...
Hazardous cargo ship represents 'no danger' to I. Coast, says port
Jan 06, 2025 (AFP)
Campaigners had expressed concern about the condition of the cargo, which has been refused entry in other ports and is now aboard the Barbados-flagged Zimrida. ...
Dozens of marine mammals found dead after Russian oil tanker spill
Jan 05, 2025 (AFP)
The spill began on December 15, when two ageing Russian tankers were caught in a storm off the Kerch Strait linking Crimea to southern Russia. One sank and the ...
Volunteers clean up Bali's beach from worst monsoon-driven trash
Jan 04, 2025 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation is one of the world's biggest contributors of plastic pollution and marine debris, with annual monsoon rains and winds sweeping mount...
Vietnam's capital blanketed by toxic smog
Jan 03, 2025 (AFP)
Authorities urged people to wear masks and limit time outdoors, but commuters told AFP they were struggling to breathe through the putrid smog, now a fixture of...
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