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Pakistan shuts primary schools in Lahore over record pollution
Nov 03, 2024 (AFP)
For days, the city of 14 million people has been enveloped by smog, a mix of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal agricultur...
Air monitor records pollution level in Lahore 80 times above WHO limit
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
The level of deadly PM2.5 pollutants -- fine particulate matter in the air that causes the most damage to health -- peaked at 1,067, before dropping to around 3...
Pollution level in Pakistan megacity hits new high, says official
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
For days, the city of 14 million people has been enveloped by smog, a mix of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal agricultur...
Taiwan races to remove oil from grounded Chinese ship
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
The Chinese-flagged Yu Zhou Qi Hang was transporting three cranes from Keelung, in northeast Taiwan, to China on Tuesday when it stalled in wild weather, Taiwan...
India's capital chokes in smog after firework ban flouted
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
New Delhi's traffic-clogged streets are home to more than 30 million people, and the city is regularly ranked as one of the most polluted urban areas on the pla...
Judge tosses New York plastic pollution lawsuit against PepsiCo
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
New York Attorney General Letitia James had sued the company last year, seeking a finding that it contributed to a "public nuisance" in the Buffalo River with i...
UK govt settles legal claim after girl's death linked to air pollution
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
Three government departments settled the claim, brought by Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's estate, for "an undisclosed sum" ahead of a High Court trial, the law firm r...
Scientists develop satellite tool to track plastic on beaches
Oct 31, 2024 (SPX)
While satellite technology has long been used to monitor floating plastic in the world's oceans - tracking both smaller plastic clusters and expansive trash isl...
Shells to surfboards: how wildlife has adapted to plastic
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste has become so pervasive in the natural environment that it is fundamentally changing the ways animals live and travel,...
Smog beset Pakistan megacity curbs rickshaws, restaurants
Oct 30, 2024 (AFP)
The eastern megacity near the border with India regularly registers among the world's most polluted cities, and on Wednesday evening recorded nearly 20 times th...
How harmful are microplastics to human health?
Oct 30, 2024 (AFP)
These tiny pieces of plastic have been detected almost everywhere on Earth, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, as well as in the air, water, soil...
Ship with suspected toxic waste returns to Albania
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
The Turkish-flagged Moliva container ship, believed to be carrying around a hundred containers filled with suspicious waste, was expected to be tested by Albani...
Smog in Pakistan megacity ends outdoor play for schoolkids
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
The eastern megacity near the border with India regularly registers among the world's most polluted cities, this week recording more than 20 times the level dee...
East DR Congo grapples with Chinese gold mining firms
Oct 24, 2024 (AFP)
He says mining has spoilt the town which lies in South Kivu province, polluting rivers and destroying fields. Hundreds of foreign companies, most of them Chines...
Indian capital chokes as 'hazardous' air pollution returns
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
New Delhi is home to more than 30 million people and is regularly ranked as one of the most polluted urban areas on the planet. Commuters walking to work cough ...
Chair of global plastics talks pledges deal next month
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
Ecuador's Luis Vayas Valdivieso said the clock was ticking if nations are to seal a potentially groundbreaking agreement at final UN-convened talks in South Kor...
NGO urges Albania to 'transparently' probe suspected toxic waste
Oct 22, 2024 (AFP)
In early July, 102 containers loaded, according to customs documents, with iron oxide, sailed from Albania's port of Durres for Thailand. But according to infor...
EU delays on dangerous chemicals threaten health, environment
Oct 21, 2024 (AFP)
Under EU rules, companies wishing to use particularly hazardous substances deemed "of very high concern" for causing cancer, impacting fertility or other seriou...
Uganda charges three over deadly garbage landslide
Oct 18, 2024 (AFP)
The collapse at the landfill in the northern Kampala district of Kiteezi in August buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid waste. Three officia...
El Salvador activists acquitted after contentious trial
Oct 18, 2024 (AFP)
Prosecutors had sought up to 36 years in prison for the former rebels of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. But the judges acquitted them "d...
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