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As Delhi chokes, pressure grows for Indian climate action
Mar 04, 2015 (AFP)
Torrents of thick black smoke billow up toward the smoggy skies as Kunti Desai feeds a coal-fired furnace to make tar for a Delhi road. Desai, whose hands and f...
Smog film goes viral in China with 155 mn views in one day
Mar 02, 2015 (AFP)
An online documentary on China's notorious smog has become a viral sensation with more than 155 million views just one day after it was released, state media sa...
Pollution is driving force behind growth of nuisance algal scums
Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)
Potentially toxic microbes which pose a threat to our drinking water have undergone a dramatic population explosion over the last 200 years as a result of pollu...
Agricultural insecticides pose a global risk to surface water bodies
Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)
Streams within approx. 40% of the global land surface are at risk from the application of insecticides. These were the results from the first global map to be m...
Great Barrier Reef corals eat plastic
Feb 25, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers in Australia have found that corals commonly found on the Great Barrier Reef will eat micro-plastic pollution. "Corals are non-selective feeders and...
Peruvian peasant takes on mining giant
Feb 24, 2015 (AFP)
With her straw hat and peasant dress, Maxima does not look like the type to take on a global mining giant, but as she gazes out from her small house in the Peru...
Fears over plastic-eating coral in Australia's Barrier Reef
Feb 24, 2015 (AFP)
Corals in the Great Barrier Reef are eating small plastic debris in the ocean, Australian researchers said Tuesday, raising fears about the impact the indigesti...
Clearing up Europe's air pollution hotspots
Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)
Current air quality legislation in Europe will lead to significant improvements in particulate matter pollution, but without further emission control efforts, m...
UI engineers find switchgrass removes PCBs from soils
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
University of Iowa researchers have found a type of grass that was once a staple of the American prairie can remove soil laden with PCBs, toxic chemicals once u...
Turning smartphones into personal, real-time pollution monitors
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
As urban residents know, air quality is a big deal. When local pollution levels go up, the associated health risks also increase, especially for children and se...
Iran MPs wear medical face masks to protest pollution
Feb 15, 2015 (AFP)
Iranian lawmakers wore medical face masks in parliament on Sunday in a show of solidarity with residents of their areas battling pollution from strong sandstorm...
Researchers develop new instrument to monitor atmospheric mercury
Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed and tested a new sensor to detect ambient levels of me...
Chemical cloud over Spanish town after factory accident
Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)
A chemical accident at a factory in Spain on Thursday injured three people and cloaked large swathes of the region in an orange chemical cloud, forcing over 60,...
Earliest evidence of large-scale human-produced air pollution in South America found
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
In the 16th century, during its conquest of South America, the Spanish Empire forced countless Incas to work extracting silver from the mountaintop mines of Pot...
Choking in car fumes, Madrid locals curse pollution
Feb 08, 2015 (AFP)
Locals call it the "beret": a grey layer of exhaust fumes that blots out Madrid's blue skies on still days. For asthma sufferer Conxi Grau, it feels more like a...
British city becomes first to impose public smoking curbs
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
The British city of Bristol has become the country's first to test smoke-free zones in outdoor public places, without imposing an outright ban, officials said M...
Mercury levels rise in Hawaiian ahi tuna: study
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
Mercury levels are rising in Hawaiian yellowfin tuna, often marketed as ahi, at a rate of nearly four percent a year as the oceans absorb the pollutant from the...
Ship grounding threatens Galapagos Islands
Jan 31, 2015 (AFP)
Ecuadoran authorities called for a state of emergency to be declared in the Galapagos Islands on Saturday as they aimed to limit damage to the archipelago's pri...
Paris mayor wants to ban polluting trucks, buses
Jan 28, 2015 (AFP)
The mayor of Paris said she wants to ban polluting buses and trucks in the French capital from July to fight pollution in one of the world's most visited cities...
Soils could keep contaminants in wastewater from reaching groundwater
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
With endocrine-disrupting compounds affecting fish populations in rivers as close as Pennsylvania's Susquehanna and as far away as Israel's Jordan, a new resear...
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