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China's sulfur dioxide emissions fell sharply while India's grew rapidly
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
Although China and India remain the world's largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China's sulfur dioxide emissions fell b...
China factory output slows as government cracks down on pollution
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
Output at factories and workshops expanded 6.2 percent on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, slowing from 6.6 percent in September and below a ...
'Don't panic' says Indian minister as smog crisis deepens
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
Harsh Vardhan contrasted the pollution choking large swathes of north India, including the capital, with the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal that killed at least 25,000...
Parents angry as Delhi schools reopen despite smog
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
Doctors declared a public health emergency last week when choking smog descended on the capital and elsewhere in northern India, prompting authorities to close ...
Pollution spikes in Delhi amid warnings no relief in sight
Nov 12, 2017 (AFP)
The US embassy website Sunday showed levels of the smallest and most harmful airborne pollutants reached 676, about 27 times the World Health Organization's saf...
Delhi smog shortening lives, say doctors as hospitals fill up
Nov 12, 2017 (AFP)
Doctors at the government-run Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute say patient numbers have more than tripled since pollution levels spiked amid a change in weathe...
Smog-hit Delhi calls off odd-even car rationing plan
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
Delhi and its surrounding states have been shrouded in a hazardous fog of toxic pollutants for nearly a week, prompting authorities to roll out a slew of measur...
Delhi restricts vehicles as smog envelopes India and Pakistan
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of schools in Delhi and surrounding states remained closed as a hazardous fog of toxic pollution cloaked the region for a third day, bringing ...
Delhi's poor bear the brunt of deadly smog
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
Better off inhabitants of the world's most polluted capital are swarming sellers of face masks -- costing more than the 300 rupees ($5) that Sanjay earns in a d...
Delhi schools shut as toxic smog hits India and Pakistan
Nov 08, 2017 (AFP)
Levels of PM 2.5, the microscopic particles that are the most damaging to health, reached more than 1,000 micrograms per cubic metre in the Indian capital on We...
Schools shut amid health emergency as smog blankets India's capital
Nov 07, 2017 (AFP)
The US embassy website said levels of the fine pollutants known as PM2.5 that are most harmful to health reached 703 -- well over double the threshold of 300 th...
Are elevated levels of mercury in the American dipper due to run-of-river dams?
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
Run-of-river dams are deemed "green energy" because they produce lower greenhouse gas emissions, have lower water storage, barrier size, extent of flooding and ...
Molybdenum in Wisconsin wells not from coal ash
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
But some fine-grained detective work led by researchers from Duke University and The Ohio State University has revealed that the ponds, which contain the residu...
Survival of coral reefs depends on pollution cuts: study
Nov 01, 2017 (AFP)
Coral reefs carry an annual global economic value of $375 billion per year because they provide shelter for fish and marine life, protect shorelines and draw to...
Dynamic catalytic converters for clean air in the city
Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)
Thanks to its good catalytic properties, platinum is often applied in catalytic converters of vehicles. Presently, about 60% of European platinum trade are used...
Chile to ban plastic bags in coastal regions
Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)
Bachelet said the move was aimed at "taking care of our marine ecosystems." "Our fish are dying from plastics ingestion or strangulation, it's a task in which e...
Schools closed over fears of toxic wind from Italy steel plant
Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)
The closures in Tamburi, the district of Taranto closest to the plant, were ordered by centre-left Democratic Party mayor Rinaldo Melucci under a new environmen...
Levels of microplastics in the Baltic have remained constant for 30 years
Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists from the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, in Germany, have been measur...
Nobel laureate wants global environment court
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
Karman, of Yemen, made the suggestion in the Central American country that Amnesty International last year described -- along with its neighbor Guatemala -- as ...
India top court bans dirty fuel to fight Delhi's bad air
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
The Supreme Court also ordered a ban on the sale and use of furnace oil -- a polluting refinery by-product -- in industries in the states of Haryana, Uttar Prad...
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