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India's choked capital starts 'pollution toll' for trucks
Nov 01, 2015 (AFP)
Delhi on Sunday introduced a toll for all trucks and commercial vehicles in an attempt to improve air quality in the world's most polluted capital ahead of Diwa...
Gear, not geoducks, impacts ecosystem if farming increases
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
The equipment used to farm geoducks, including PVC pipes and nets, might have a greater impact on the Puget Sound food web than the addition of the clams themse...
Plastic litter taints the sea surface, even in the Arctic
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) show for the first time that marine litter c...
Rain produces rivers of trash in Lebanese capital
Oct 25, 2015 (AFP)
Streets in parts of Lebanon turned into rivers of garbage on Sunday as heavy rains washed through mountains of trash that have piled up during a months-long was...
Toxins remain in clothes long after manufacturing
Oct 23, 2015 (UPI)
When researchers in Sweden tested dozens of garments from popular clothing lines, they found thousands of chemicals leftover from the manufacturing process. Hun...
Orange peels to combat mercury contamination
Oct 23, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers at the Australia's Flinders University have come up with a novel solution to the problem of mercury pollution -- a polymer made of industrial waste....
India's capital holds first 'car-free day' to combat filthy air
Oct 22, 2015 (AFP)
The Indian capital held its first "car-free day" Thursday to try to improve New Delhi's notoriously filthy air, but motorists were seen ignoring signs to keep o...
Morocco trash pickers help fight climate change
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Pulling carts piled high with plastic bottles or rummaging through unofficial dumpsites, informal trash collectors abound on the streets of Morocco. Dubbed "Mik...
Belgian urban vacuum cleaner takes on world's litter
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
It looks like the high-tech equipment used to capture ghosts in the "Ghostbusters" film, with its large nozzle and tank, but this urban vacuum cleaner's targets...
Trial over Italy's toxic steel plant on hold
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
A mega-trial opened on Tuesday of industrialists, politicians and officials blamed for toxic emissions from the Ilva steel plant in southern Italy that caused a...
The shape of a pipe dramatically affects how pollutants will spread
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have long known and well-documented how dye disperses when injected into a fluid flowing through a pipe. But a team of mathematicians at the Univers...
Heavy air pollution in 80% of Chinese cities: Greenpeace
Oct 15, 2015 (AFP)
Pollution in nearly 80 percent of Chinese cities surveyed by Greenpeace "greatly exceeded" national standards over the first nine months of this year, the advoc...
Field widens for environments, microbes that produce toxic form of mercury
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
Thawing permafrost and contaminated sediment in marine coastal areas pose some of the greatest risks for the production of highly toxic methylmercury, according...
Sea turtles face plastic pollution peril
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
A new global review led by the University of Exeter that set out to investigate the hazards of marine plastic pollution has warned that all seven species of mar...
France's Corsica: from 'isle of beauty' to 'isle of trash'
Oct 11, 2015 (AFP)
Corsica, France's lush and feisty Mediterranean "isle of beauty", as it's known, has another nickname, the "scented isle" for its dense fragrant shrubs. Of late...
India court approves 'pollution toll' to clean choking Delhi
Oct 09, 2015 (AFP)
Diesel-guzzling trucks and commercial vehicles in India will soon have to pay a surcharge for entering New Delhi, after the country's top court Friday approved ...
Thai tourist islands hit by haze from Indonesia fires
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Popular Thai holiday islands were engulfed with haze from Indonesian forest fires Thursday, forcing several planes packed with beach-bound tourists to turn back...
Fresh garbage protests in Lebanon as disease fears grow
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Thursday night in downtown Beirut in fresh protests against Lebanon's ruling elite and a months-long garbage crisis that acti...
Oil from freighter collision off Belgian coast threatens nature reserve
Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)
Belgium and the Netherlands are frantically trying to stop the spread of oil leaking from a collision Tuesday morning between a freighter and a tanker in the No...
Indonesia doing its best to combat haze: disaster chief
Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)
Indonesia's disaster chief Tuesday rejected criticism his country was not doing enough to combat the haze crisis, saying every possible resource was being deplo...
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