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New Test Screens Wastewater Biosolids for Environmental Contaminants
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
Every year waste treatment facilities in the United States process more than eight million tons of semi-solid sewage called biosolids-about half of which is rec...
New Bedford Harbor pollution prompts PCB-resistance in Atlantic killifish
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
For four decades, waste from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into the waters of New Bedford Harbor-an 18,000-acre estuary and busy seaport. The harbor, which...
Tuna study reveals oil pollution causes heart problems
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
The reason people have more heart attacks when air pollution levels rise may have been revealed by a study on the impact of the BP oil spill on tuna, scientists...
France to start pumping out Spanish ship broken in three
Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)
Teams from a salvage company and a French coast guard anti-pollution squad are to start Friday pumping fuel out of a Spanish cargo ship which has broken into th...
S. Korea fisheries minister sacked over oil spill
Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Thursday sacked the country's fisheries minister over a huge oil spill that has fouled the shoreline off the southern po...
Cooperative SO2 and NOx aerosol formation in haze pollution
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
Air pollution in China has exhibited noticeable changes over the past 30 years, shifting from point-source pollution (around factories and industrial plants) in...
Asian ozone pollution in Hawaii is tied to climate variability
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
Air pollution from Asia has been rising for several decades but Hawaii had seemed to escape the ozone pollution that drifts east with the springtime winds. Now ...
Made in China for us: Air pollution tied to exports
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
Chinese air pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean is often caused by the manufacturing of goods for export to the U.S. and Europe, according to findings by...
Delhi says air 'not as bad' as Beijing after smog scrutiny
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
India's air monitoring centre denied Wednesday that pollution in New Delhi was worse than in Beijing, following scrutiny of the Indian capital's winter smog, wh...
India's Essar sues Greenpeace for $80 mn for defamation
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
Indian energy group Essar said Tuesday it is suing Greenpeace for defamation over a giant banner unfurled on the front of the conglomerate's headquarters that r...
Integrating vegetation into sustainable transportation planning may benefit public health
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
Strategic placement of trees and plants near busy roadways may enhance air quality and positively impact public health. In recent years, the health of people li...
US study finds pesticide may raise risk of Alzheimer's
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
People with Alzheimer's disease may have higher levels of a chemical left behind by the pesticide DDT than healthy elderly people, suggested a US study out Mond...
US consumers to blame for some air pollution from China
Jan 20, 2014 (AFP)
Air pollution from China blows across the Pacific Ocean and ends up over the US west coast -- and American consumerism is to blame for a portion of it, said a s...
Waterfowl poisoning halved by lead shot prohibition
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Lead shot was forbidden in 2001 in Spanish wetlands on the Ramsar List of these areas of international importance. Ten years later, this prohibition -and the co...
Loss of biodiversity limits toxin degradation
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
You might not think of microbes when you consider biodiversity, but it turns out that even a moderate loss of less than 5% of soil microbes may compromise some ...
Dangerous pollution hits China's capital
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
China's capital was shrouded in dangerous smog on Thursday, cutting visibility down to a few hundred metres as a count of small particulate pollution reached mo...
Italy's govt agrees to send in army against mafia dumps
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
The Italian government agreed Tuesday to send in the army to fight the mafia which it blames for illegally dumping tonnes of toxic garbage around Naples, in an ...
Toxic chemicals found in children's clothes, shoes: Greenpeace
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Children's clothing and shoes made by a dozen globally-recognised brands have been found to contain potentially harmful chemicals, Greenpeace said Tuesday. A ne...
ADB says China and Japan should tackle pollution together
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
China and Japan should put aside their diplomatic differences and find common ground in protecting the environment, the Asian Development Bank said Monday. Take...
Hong Kong suffers in smog as pollution problems rise
Jan 12, 2014 (AFP)
The New Year has revived old problems for Hong Kong as a murky smog blankets the usually glittering skyline, fuelling complaints from locals and visitors alike,...
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