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Barrels of aviation fuel to be moved off ship in North Sea crash
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
"During the weekend of March 29-30, operation will commence at sea to transfer the remaining 202,485 barrels of Jet-A1 cargo from the Stena Immaculate tanker to...
Over a billion pounds of Coke plastic waste to enter waterways: study
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
That's enough plastic to fill the stomachs of 18 million whales. The report arrives amid mounting concerns over the human health risks posed by the spread of mi...
Poisoned legacy of Albania's steel city
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
Built in the 1970s with Chinese help, the vast "Steel of the Party" site once employed 10,000 workers in 500 factories during Enver Hoxha's dictatorship. Now on...
Chewing gum releases microplastics into mouth: researchers
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
The small study comes as researchers have increasingly been discovering small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of moun...
Chinese officials admit toxic river leak after rare media reports
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
An emergency response was launched after detecting "abnormal water quality" in a section of the Lei River, officials in the central city of Chenzhou said on Sun...
44 people on trial in Vietnam over illegal sand mining
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
A former senior provincial official who took a $300,000 bribe to allow mining in the area is among 44 people facing justice at the Ho Chi Minh City court, in th...
'Surf and turf' protest in Spain against factory, mine
Mar 22, 2025 (AFP)
Protesters in the coastal city of A Pobra do Caraminal, in Spain's Galicia region, decried what they said were the environmental risks posed by both facilities....
Separatist group presses boycott over 'ecocide' in Papua
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
West Papua has long been the site of a low-level separatist insurgency with Indonesian authorities accused of mass arrests to silence activists. The tribes and ...
Too much water: Gold rush, climate change submerge Bolivian village
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
His home is one of about 500 partly immersed in floodwaters in the village of Tipuani in the heart of a gold-mining region. Gold mining has carved away at the b...
Greenpeace's biggest operations
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
- 1971: underground nuclear test - Greenpeace was born with a bang on September 15, 1971 when a crew of 12 Canadians and Americans set out from Vancouver Island...
Mine operator ready to halt arbitration against Panama
Mar 14, 2025 (AFP)
The offer from Cobre Panama, which is controlled by Canada's First Quantum Minerals, came after it was authorized to export copper extracted before the open-pit...
Brazil mine disaster trial ends with claimants hopeful of justice
Mar 13, 2025 (AFP)
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people and unleashed a deluge of thick toxic mud into villages, fields, rainforest, rivers and the ocean. The Fundao tailings da...
London trial on 2015 Brazil mine disaster wraps up
Mar 13, 2025 (AFP)
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people and unleashed a deluge of thick toxic mud into villages, fields, rainforest, rivers and the ocean. The Fundao tailings da...
'Really suffocating': Pakistan emerges from record smog season
Mar 12, 2025 (AFP)
Pakistan regularly ranks among the world's most polluted countries, with Lahore often the most polluted megacity between November and February. AFP's analysis o...
Mongolia's children choke in toxic pollution
Mar 12, 2025 (AFP)
The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for more than a decade that successive governments have faile...
Trump Admin sweeps away environmental protections, abolishes local remediation programs
Mar 12, 2025 (AFP)
The 31 actions are part of what Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin called "the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in US h...
Smog bound Indian cities dominate global pollution rankings: report
Mar 11, 2025 (AFP)
The report by IQAir, a Swiss air technology company, said India's Byrnihat was the world's "most polluted metropolitan area of 2024". The Indian capital New Del...
Philippines' Palawan approves 50-year ban on new mining permits
Mar 06, 2025 (AFP)
Palawan province, a UNESCO "biosphere reserve" known for its diverse flora and fauna, has become a hotbed for mining as the national government seeks to widen i...
Persistent lead mining in Zambia town poisoning children: HRW; Albania slammed for inaction on 'toxic waste'
Mar 05, 2025 (AFP)
Kabwe, around 150 kilometres (95 miles) north of the capital Lusaka, is known as one of the world's most polluted places from decades of lead and zinc mining. M...
New Delhi vows to flatten monster garbage pile in Indian capital
Mar 05, 2025 (AFP)
Around 32 million people live in greater Delhi, where a slipshod approach to waste management has left numerous landfills with garbage piled up to 60 metres (20...
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