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Algal blooms a threat to small lakes and ponds, too
Aug 30, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers from The Ohio State University examined water samples from two dozen ponds and small lakes in rural Ohio and found plenty of cause for con...
Plastic, biogenic particles combine in the ocean, sink to lower depths
Aug 29, 2018 (UPI)
New research suggests biological particles can help carry plastic pollution to the seafloor. The oceans are filled with naturally occurring particles called bio...
Paris, Tokyo, New York and others pledge to slash waste
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
Places like New York, Tokyo, London, Paris and Sydney vowed to "cut the amount of waste generated by each citizen 15 percent by 2030," said a statement from C40...
Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
This is the first time that data on air pollution and lifespan has been studied together in order to examine the global variations in how they affect overall li...
Sent packing: Hong Kong's elderly cardboard collectors
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
At 67-years-old she is one of around 2,900 collectors, mainly women over the age of 60, whose frail figures are a familiar sight, guiding trolleys loaded with c...
Russia blacklists US-based environmental group
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
The Pacific Environment group is the 15th body -- but the first environmental one -- to be blacklisted. It works to protect Pacific rim communities and operates...
Sofia theatre group explores 'invisible hands' of recycling
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
As night falls, spectators are led from one garbage bin to another, listening to the untold stories of the Bulgarian capital's army of unofficial refuse collect...
'Green hajj' slowly takes root in Mecca
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
The Mamuniya camp in Mina near the holy city is dotted with colour-coded barrels -- black for organic waste and blue for cans and plastics for recycling. It's a...
Australian eco-friendly 'Clothes Library' fights fast fashion
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
Shocked by the speed at which Australians buy and throw away cheap garments, she is trying to harness an ancient concept -- libraries -- to persuade shoppers to...
Air pollution shortens global life expectancy by at least a year
Aug 22, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of Texas looked at PM2.5 pollution across the globe. Particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 microns across can be inhaled deep...
The Australians putting the brakes on fast fashion, fearing for environment
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
Shocked by the speed at which Australians buy and throw away cheap garments, she is trying to harness an ancient concept -- libraries -- to persuade shoppers to...
Flushed contact lenses are big source of microplastic pollution
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
The amount of plastic waste created by lenses and their packaging in the United States alone is equal to 400 million toothbrushes each year, said researchers at...
Tunisia anti-litter activist takes up 300-km, 30-beach challenge
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
The 27-year-old sanitary engineer set out in July to walk a 300-kilometre (185-mile) stretch of coastline in northern Tunisia and clean up 30 beaches along the ...
Environmental regulations drove steep declines in US factory pollution
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The study, forthcoming in the American Economic Review, found that polluting emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent between 1990 and 2008 - a peri...
U.S. environmental regulations curbed air pollution, study shows
Aug 09, 2018 (UPI)
Between 1990 and 2008, the United States' manufacturing output grew, but industrial air pollution decreased by 60 percent. The new study, forthcoming in the Ame...
Clothing, furniture also to blame for ocean and freshwater pollution
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists call this type of water pollution eutrophication, and it is an enormous problem worldwide: There are more than 400 marine 'dead zones' caused by over...
Chile enacts historic ban on plastic bags
Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)
"I want to share with you the joy that as of today we're enacting the law," said President Sebastian Pinera at a public ceremony in the centre of Santiago, afte...
Australia supermarket bagged after plastic backflip
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
The nation's two major grocery chains, Coles and Woolworths, banned lightweight single-use plastic bags from their stores nationally last month in response to m...
Sunscreen chemicals harm fish embryos, study shows
Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)
Chemical filters used in sunscreen help protect skin from ultraviolet radiation. Recent sampling efforts off the coast of Shenzhen, China, revealed elevated lev...
Degrading plastics emit greenhouse gases: study
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
A study in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday found that degrading plastics emit powerful greenhouse gases like methane and ethylene, and are a previously unacco...
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