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'Toxic bomb' ticks on Maldives rubbish island
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
Descending by plane into the Maldives offers a panoramic view of azure seas and coral-fringed islands, but as the tarmac nears, billowing smoke in the middle di...
Pulp friction cleans up 'Brockovich' chemical
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
A byproduct of the manufacture of pulp using the sulfite process for making paper, sodium lignosulfonate, can be used to immobilize and soak up toxic chromium c...
WHO launches drive against mercury thermometers
Oct 11, 2013 (AFP)
The World Health Organization and campaigners launched a drive Friday to try to wipe out mercury in medical thermometers, a day after nations signed a UN treaty...
Minamata: The dark side of Japan's industrialisation
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
Minamata was the site of Japan's worst ever industrial poisoning and is regarded as the dark side of Japan's rapid modernisation during the 20th Century. For de...
Minamata mercury treaty signed at UN conference
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
Delegates from some 140 countries and territories Thursday signed a United Nations treaty to control mercury near the site of Japan's worst industrial poisoning...
Mongolia's 'eco-Nazis' target foreign miners
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
A silver swastika hanging around his neck, Boldbaatar Gombodorj points out his targets on a map of Mongolia like a World War II commander: little flags represen...
Southeast Asia agrees anti-haze system
Oct 09, 2013 (AFP)
Southeast Asian leaders on Wednesday approved a new system aimed at cracking down on illegal forest fires blamed for the region's worst smog crisis in years. Th...
Delegates pay tribute at Japan's mercury poison site
Oct 09, 2013 (AFP)
Delegates from around the world paid tribute Wednesday to the hundreds of Japanese who were killed by decades-long mercury dumping as they gathered at the site ...
'Minamata' mercury treaty conference kicks off in Japan
Oct 07, 2013 (AFP)
A UN conference to sign a historic treaty aimed at reining in the use and emission of mercury began Monday in Kumamoto, near Minamata, the site of Japan's worst...
China is 'polluting' Mt. Fuji: Japan study
Oct 04, 2013 (AFP)
A Japanese study is claiming that toxic air pollution from China is to blame for high mercury levels atop the country's beloved Mount Fuji. The research will li...
How much of thallium pollutants will be released to environment by utilizing minerals?
Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)
A recent research has explored the environmental exposure and flux of thallium to the environment; and it provides the foundations for theoretical calculation t...
New data show agricultural anabolic steroids regenerate in aquatic ecosystems
Oct 02, 2013 (SPX)
New regulatory approaches may be needed to assess environmental risks of agricultural growth promoters, and similar human pharmaceuticals, following research th...
Chile ruling to keep Barrick mine closed to late 2014
Sep 26, 2013 (AFP)
Chile's high court has upheld an order temporarily suspending construction of what would be the world's biggest gold mine over environmental concerns, Canadian ...
Legacy Soil Pollution Higher lead levels may lie just below surface
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
newly published analysis of data from hundreds of soil samples from 31 properties around southern Rhode Island finds that the lead concentration in soil at the ...
Pollution deadlier than road accidents in Sao Paulo
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
Air pollution kills more people annually than road accidents in Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city which will host the opening game of the 2014 World Cup, a...
PNG makes BHP liable for environmental damage from mine
Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)
Papua New Guinea's government wrested full control of the controversial Ok Tedi copper and gold mine and quashed former owner BHP Billiton's legal immunity for ...
Throw away replaces take away for Danish restaurant
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
A restaurant serving dishes made from food about be thrown away by supermarkets and other companies opened its doors in Copenhagen on Tuesday. "We had all worke...
Mongolia environmentalists held after shot at parliament: reports
Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)
Nine Mongolian environmentalists protesting against legal changes which they say will loosen controls on mining were arrested outside parliament on Monday after...
Costa Concordia salvage operation to go ahead
Sep 15, 2013 (AFP)
Italian officials have given the go-ahead for an unprecedented salvage operation to lift the 114,500-ton Costa Concordia cruise ship from its side on Monday. "P...
China vows air pollution cuts in major cities
Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)
China vowed Thursday to reduce levels of atmospheric pollutants in Beijing and other major cities by as much as 25 percent to try to improve their dire air qual...
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