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Over-pumping sucks arsenic into Hanoi's water
Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)
Arsenic has infiltrated an aquifer that provides water for the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, scientists said Wednesday, warning that the phenomenon could also occur...
Bacteria supplemented their diet to clean up after Deep Water Horizon oil spill
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
Bacteria living in the Gulf of Mexico beaches were able to 'eat up' the contamination from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill by supplementing their diet with nit...
Old concrete can protect nature
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
Lakes and streams are often receiving so much phosphorous that it could pose a threat to the local aquatic environment. Now, research from the University of Sou...
Hundreds of thousands of fish killed by China pollution
Sep 04, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish were left floating in a Chinese river after a chemical discharge, officials said Wednesday, the latest industrial accident to...
Detached pipe cap caused deadly China ammonia leak: officials
Sep 01, 2013 (AFP)
An ammonia leak which killed 15 people at a food company in China's commercial hub of Shanghai was caused by a detached pipe cap, state media said Sunday. The l...
Haze returns to Indonesia as fires rage
Aug 27, 2013 (AFP)
Fires cloaked parts of Indonesia's Sumatra in thick smog Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of flights, two months after blazes on the island sparked Southeast A...
New risk model sheds light on arsenic risk in China's groundwater
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
Since the 1960s, it has been known that groundwater resources in certain provinces of China are contaminated with arsenic. Estimates of the numbers of affected ...
Home cooking, traffic are sources of key air pollutants from China
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
Almost 80 percent of air pollution involving soot that spreads from China over large areas of East Asia - impacting human health and fostering global warming - ...
New predictive method pinpoints arsenic hotspots
Aug 22, 2013 (AFP)
European and Chinese researchers have built a model to predict the presence of arsenic groundwater contamination in China and elsewhere where millions are at ri...
NASA Scientists Relate Urban Population to Air Pollution
Aug 22, 2013 (NASA)
Live in a large city like New York, London, Beijing or Mumbai, and you are likely exposed to more air pollution than people in smaller cities in surrounding are...
Home cooking fires, traffic tagged as pollution sources in China
Aug 21, 2013 (UPI)
Home cooking fires and city traffic emissions create 80 percent of the air pollution in China that spreads over large areas of East Asia, researchers say. Home ...
China, US, Qatar singled out on 'Earth Overshoot Day'
Aug 20, 2013 (AFP)
China, the United States and Qatar were accused of environmental plunder on Tuesday as green activists marked "Earth Overshoot Day," the date at which mankind h...
Canadian railway refuses to pay for disaster clean-up
Aug 15, 2013 (AFP)
Canadian Pacific Railway will appeal a government order to pay for the clean-up of a deadly train derailment in Canada's Quebec province in July, a spokesman sa...
Simulating flow from volcanoes and oil spills
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Some time around 37,000 BCE a massive volcano erupted in the Campanian region of Italy, blanketing much of Europe with ash, stunting plant growth and possibly d...
Following marine oil leakage, Thailand tightens regulations
Aug 14, 2013 (UPI)
The Thai government is tightening environmental regulations in the wake of last month's massive oil spill. The July 27 leak occurred in PTT Global Chemical Plc'...
Philippine refiner claims responsibility for diesel spill
Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)
The Philippines' largest oil refiner Petron Corp. has claimed responsibility for a huge diesel spill that shut down parts of Manila Bay's vital fishing industry...
Philippines works to contain huge diesel spill
Aug 10, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine authorities said they were working Saturday to contain a huge diesel spill that shut down parts of Manila Bay's vital fishing industry. Ryan Santos, ...
Green sea turtles eat more plastic than ever: study
Aug 09, 2013 (AFP)
Endangered green turtles are ingesting more man-made debris, including potentially lethal plastic products, than ever before, a new Australian study has shown. ...
A Path to Better MTV-MOFs
Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists would like to apply the same principles by which baking soda removes food odors from refrigerators or silica powder keeps moisture away from electron...
Dead fish after huge oil spill in Philippines
Aug 09, 2013 (AFP)
A huge oil spill shut down parts of the Philippine capital's vital fishing industry Friday, jeopardising the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people living a...
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