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Alpine air at work? Delhi eyes novel ways to battle smog
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
From the outside, the Paharpur Business Centre looks like any modern office block. But inside it is a virtual jungle where rooms and corridors are lined with mo...
Suspect in murder of Philippine environmentalist freed
Jan 06, 2018 (AFP)
Joel Reyes, the ex-governor of the western island of Palawan, was arrested in 2015 for the killing of Gerry Ortega, a prominent campaigner and radio host who fr...
Beijing records best air quality in five years in 2017
Jan 03, 2018 (AFP)
The city met its targets with year-on-year "improvement of regional air quality and overall favourable meteorological conditions", a statement posted on the Bei...
25 tonnes of toxic waste found dumped near Belgrade
Dec 30, 2017 (AFP)
"This is just the beginning of a major operation that will take place on our territory and in Serbia," Obrenovac mayor Miroslav Cuckovic told state television (...
Russian environmental campaigner hospitalised after beating
Dec 29, 2017 (AFP)
Andrei Rudomakha, who heads the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus organisation in southern Russia, was returning with several other people from a trip to in...
Bali declares 'garbage emergency' amid sea of waste
Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)
Plastic straws and food packaging are strewn between sunbathers, while surfers bobbing behind the waves dodge waste flushed out from rivers or brought in by swi...
Turning e-waste into art at Ghana's toxic dump
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
"It's survival and dystopia," says the 21-year-old British-born Ghanaian, surveying the stretch of wasteland around him as dense plumes of acrid smoke rise into...
Delhi tests 'anti-smog' mist cannon; Smog keeps schools closed in Tehran
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
The cannon's Indian manufacturers say the fine droplets of water it ejects at high speed can flush out deadly airborne pollutants in one of the world's smoggies...
Clearing the air
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Argonne's Stephen Klippenstein and his collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania examined the Criegee intermediate, a carbonyl oxide that consists of mole...
Heavy air pollution shuts schools in Iran
Dec 17, 2017 (AFP)
The authorities shuttered primary schools in the province of Tehran, home to 14 million residents, before ordering them to remain closed on Monday. All sports c...
Taiwan steel firm behind toxic dump in Vietnam fined again
Dec 17, 2017 (AFP)
The deadly dump from Formosa's $11 billion steel plant in Ha Tinh province sparked one of the country's worst environmental catastrophes, decimating livelihoods...
Macedonian capital chokes in polluted air
Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)
On the Skopje streets, numerous citizens were wearing masks in a bid to protect themselves while the visibility was poor. Mask stocks were emptied, local media ...
UN warns of surging e-waste, little recycling
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
A full 44.7 million tonnes of so-called e-waste was generated around the world in 2016, up eight percent from two years earlier, according to a report from the ...
Britain must obey EU environment rules for post-Brexit air deal
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
Airlines should stay in the EU's emissions trading scheme and follow rules against subsidies to prevent Britain becoming a "carbon haven", Brussels-based group ...
Offsetting Trump, Macron moves to 'Make Our Planet Great Again'
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
They were among 18 beneficiaries of a Macron-led initiative to boost climate change research in the face of Trump's rejection of the Paris Agreement to limit cl...
Tiny ocean creatures can shred a plastic bag into 1.75 million pieces
Dec 08, 2017 (UPI)
When scientists from University of Plymouth in England fed a plastic bag to Orchestia gammarellus, a tiny species of amphipod abundant in the coastal waters of ...
Smog should stop play, Indian doctors tell cricket bosses
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
The IMA said in a letter to the Indian cricket board it was "greatly troubled" by scenes of players wearing masks to protect themselves from air pollution many ...
UN pledge to tackle lead poisoning too late for some victims
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
"I feel very bad," the 25-year-old tells AFP on the sidelines of a UN pollution conference, shivering in a thick jacket in the warm Kenyan sun. "I have constant...
Babies' brains at risk from toxic pollution: UN
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
The UN's children's agency, UNICEF, said Asia accounts for more than 16 million of the world's 17 million infants aged under one year living in areas with sever...
World's nations adopt plan 'towards a pollution-free planet'
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
Changing the behaviour of producers and buyers would be key to achieving the vision of a "pollution-free planet" outlined in a political declaration adopted at ...
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