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French startup Plume out to crowd-source air quality
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
Paris-based Plume created Flow devices that people can use to measure air pollution where ever they happen to be, providing real-time information about whether ...
Rivers worldwide threatened by pharma waste: studies
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
On current trends, the amount of pharmaceutical effluence leaching into waterways could increase by two-thirds before mid-century, they told a major science con...
India's eco warriors who sent Bollywood's Khan to jail
Apr 08, 2018 (AFP)
The determination of the Bishnoi community forced Khan to spend two sleepless nights in a Rajasthan jail following his conviction last week for killing rare ant...
Philippine tourist island in chaos as shutdown looms
Apr 06, 2018 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the once-idyllic white-sand resort closed to tourists for up to six months from April 26, after describing the country's top t...
Philippines to close Boracay island to tourists for six months
Apr 05, 2018 (AFP)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown to start April 26, his spokesman Harry Roque said late Wednesday on Twitter, without providing further...
Walden Pond, once pristine, now polluted: study
Apr 04, 2018 (AFP)
But today, the once pristine pond -- a national historic landmark and state reservation in the northeastern state of Massachusetts -- is polluted by swimmers an...
Trump's environment chief faces intensifying scrutiny
Apr 03, 2018 (AFP)
Amid speculation that Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, could be the latest of Trump's cabinet members to get the axe, congressional De...
Russia landfill protest town on 'high alert'
Mar 30, 2018 (AFP)
The Kremlin said it was closely watching the situation in Volokolamsk, a town of around 20,000 people about 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of Moscow. Residents ...
UK plans plastic bottle charge to tackle pollution
Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)
The government will introduce a charge on plastic, glass and metal single use drinks containers sold in England, the environment ministry said. The move is aime...
EU considers financial system alignment with green goals
Mar 26, 2018 (UPI)
The European Commission hosted high-level talks in Brussels on how to reform its financial system to align more closely with EU climate efforts and the Paris cl...
Five ways to halt 'critical' land decay
Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)
But all is not lost, said the mammoth report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Humanity can still...
Gambian activists take action against polluting Chinese firm
Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)
The residents of Gunjur, a Gambian village an hour south of the capital Banjul, have complained that toxic waste has killed fish and affected the health of thei...
New solution to harmful algal blooms raises hope of economic and environmental benefits
Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)
Moves to adopt use of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as an effective treatment against toxic algae are already underway following the results of new research by a tea...
Researchers create new low-cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
"This paper shows the simple synthesis of a new porous hybrid material, obtained by using low cost and by-product materials," says the lead author, Dr. Elza Bon...
Ships in the English Channel have highest rate of sulphur violations in northern Europe
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
The highest permitted sulphur content in shipping fuel was drastically reduced at the end of 2014 for vessels sailing in the northern European Sulphur Emission ...
Researchers create a protein 'mat' that can soak up pollution
Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)
Despite years of effort to stabilize proteins outside of their native environments, scientists have made limited progress in combining proteins with synthetic c...
Paris to study pollution-busting free transport
Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)
The study, announced late Monday, will see lawmakers and experts report back by the end of 2018 on whether the scheme would be financially feasible. The Sociali...
Large-scale climatic warming could increase persistent haze in Beijing
Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)
While the increased pollutant emissions serve as the most important reason, changes in regional atmospheric circulation associated with large-scale climate warm...
Researchers turn plastic pollution into cleaners
Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)
A smart new material is produced from polystyrene by the novel method of freezing and expanding to a state where is can support nanoparticles. In a solid state ...
Tonnes of garbage cleaned up from Galapagos coast
Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)
The coastal garbage cleanup is aimed at studying "the possible arrival of invasive species in the waste swept in by the ocean currents," the Park said in a stat...
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