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Wetlands continue to reduce nitrates
May 19, 2015 (SPX)
Wetlands created 20 years ago between tile-drained agricultural fields and the Embarras River were recently revisited for a new two-year University of Illinois ...
Russia helps block export restriction on asbestos
May 16, 2015 (AFP)
Four countries including Russia have blocked a bid to add chrysotile asbestos to a list of dangerous substances subject to export restrictions, participants at ...
Clean air power plan hinges on key policy decisions
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
States will gain large, widespread, and nearly immediate health benefits if EPA sets strong standards in the final Clean Power Plan, according to the first inde...
US-backed drug spraying triggers health fears in Colombia
May 06, 2015 (AFP)
Two decades after it started spraying coca fields with herbicide, Colombia is torn between continuing to wage a US-sponsored war on drugs from the sky and mount...
Greenpeace says India office may close within a month
May 05, 2015 (AFP)
Greenpeace India said on Tuesday it may be forced to shut down operations in the country within a month after the government blocked it from receiving foreign f...
Chemical spill had 'no impact on health': Costa Rica
May 04, 2015 (AFP)
Costa Rica said Monday there was no health impact from a shipwreck that spilled ammonium nitrate off its coast, but maintained a fishing ban even as it reopened...
Hungary orders clean-up of 'catastrophic' disused chemical plant
Apr 30, 2015 (AFP)
Hungary on Thursday moved to make safe a disused Budapest chemical plant that environmentalist group Greenpeace said was in a "catastrophic" state. Over 2,000 t...
Flameproof falcons and hawks
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
A Cooper's hawk, found in Greater Vancouver, is the most polluted wild bird that has been found anywhere in the world. A team of Canadian researchers made this ...
Ivory Coast toxic spill victims hope for reparations
Apr 22, 2015 (AFP)
Andoudoua Blonde says he will have to live forever with blindness in one eye, headaches and skin rashes caused by a 2006 dumping of toxic waste near his farm in...
Mountain of electrical waste reaches new peak: report
Apr 21, 2015 (AFP)
A record amount of electrical and electronic waste hit the rubbish tips in 2014, with the biggest per-capita tallies in countries that pride themselves on envir...
Air pollution levels drop in China: Greenpeace
Apr 21, 2015 (AFP)
Air pollution levels in some of China's smoggiest cities fell by nearly a third in the first quarter of this year, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said ...
Mayor in standoff with chemical firms in Israel's Haifa
Apr 20, 2015 (AFP)
Municipal rubbish trucks blocked the entrances to a refinery and four chemical plants in Israel's third city Haifa Monday following a scare over high cancer rat...
Dispersant used to clean gulf spill more toxic to corals than the oil
Apr 19, 2015 (SPX)
The dispersant used to remediate the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more toxic to cold-water corals than the spilled oil, according t...
Dwindling bird populations in Fukushima
Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)
This is the time of year when birds come out and really spread their wings, but since a disastrous day just before spring's arrival four years ago, Japan's Fuku...
India government trying to shut us down: Greenpeace
Apr 14, 2015 (AFP)
Greenpeace India accused the government Tuesday of preventing local donors from funding its activities, saying the move was aimed at shutting down its operation...
India court suspends ban on diesel vehicles in smoggy Delhi
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
An Indian court Monday suspended its ban on diesel vehicles more than 10 years old after New Delhi authorities complained they were struggling to comply with th...
Northern coastal marshes more vulnerable to nutrient pollution
Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)
Salt marshes at higher latitudes, such as those in densely populated coastal regions of New England and northern Europe, are more vulnerable to the effects of n...
India bans Greenpeace from receiving foreign funds
Apr 09, 2015 (AFP)
India on Thursday suspended Greenpeace India's foreign funding licence, the latest move against the environmental watchdog after the government accused it of hu...
Contaminants also a threat to polar bears
Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), one of the largest carnivorous mammals on Earth, is being made vulnerable by the series of dangers it faces. An international ...
China plants 'to close' after violent protest
Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)
Government officials in China's Inner Mongolia region vowed to shut down several chemical plants after thousands of police were said to have used tear gas and b...
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