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Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)

Fast-growing Pakistan is home to some 200 million people and suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the world, thanks to its giant population plying po...

Athens rubbish piles up as Greeks protest contracts

Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)

Authorities said around 5,000 people gathered in central Athens, closing roads to traffic in the latest protest against austerity measures imposed by the countr...

Scientists probe role of sunscreen in accelerating coral reef decline

Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)

Downs, part of a team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Central Florida and the University of Hawaii, notic...

Risky gold rush: Indonesia tackles illegal mining boom

Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)

It is one of a huge number of illegal gold mines that have sprung up across the resource-rich archipelago as the price of the precious metal has soared, luring ...

Vietnam environment official sacked over mass fish kill

Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)

Luong Duy Hanh, director of Vietnam's Environment Protection Management Department, is the latest official to be punished over the toxic leak, which was blamed ...

Donkeys at dawn: a rubbish job in the Algiers Kasbah

Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)

Some streets in the Kasbah are so narrow that single file is necessary. Others are wider but are steep and stepped, ruling out more usual rubbish collection met...

Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

Rutgers engineers have invented biosensor technology - known as a lab on a chip - that could be used in hand-held or wearable devices to monitor your health and...

Garbage dumped in sea off Lebanon sparks outrage

Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)

For the past 10 days, civil society groups have shared images of trucks carrying rubbish and tipping it into the Mediterranean, a process that is ongoing. Activ...

'Green police' to battle Tunisia trash scourge

Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)

"May God help you -- it's a very difficult mission," Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said at the launch of the unit, with their new uniforms and GPS-equipped pick...

Plastic in rivers major source of ocean pollution: study

Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)

Researchers at The Ocean Cleanup -- a Dutch foundation developing new technologies for ridding the oceans of plastic -- say rivers carry an estimated 1.15-2.41 ...

Woman sues France over Paris pollution health damage

Jun 07, 2017 (AFP)

Clotilde Nonnez, an asthmatic 56-year-old yoga teacher, told AFP that she had "nearly died" during a spike in air pollution in the capital in December 2016. Her...

A new hyper-local air pollution map

Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)

The research team was led by Cockrell School of Engineering assistant professor Joshua Apte in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Google and...

Americans' caffeine habit may be harming waterways, wildlife

Jun 07, 2017 (UPI)

But a dark side to the world's most popular legal stimulant is slowly emerging. It turns out that our bodies don't absorb all the caffeine we consume. Some gets...

Pollution 'devastating' China's vital ecosystem, research shows

Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)

A pioneering new international study, led by the University of Exeter, has looked at the true impact air pollutants have in impeding the local vegetation's abil...

Slovenia's 'eco-hero' who crushed a cement giant

Jun 04, 2017 (AFP)

A role model to some, an "eco-terrorist" to others, Macerl recently picked up one of the world's most prestigious environmental awards for shutting down a cemen...

Mining for answers on abandoned mines

Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)

In the western United States 160,000 abandoned mines contaminate soils in the region. Ippolito, associate professor of soil science at Colorado State University...

Scott Pruitt: EPA chief who urged Trump to ditch climate pact

Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)

Pruitt heads the Environmental Protection Agency, and has spent much of the last few months since his confirmation lobbying the president to ditch the global ag...

Man-made air pollution in Europe dates back 2,000 years

May 31, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers determined the natural concentration of lead in the air is close to zero. Ice cores show unnatural lead levels were detectable in the atmosphere sev...

Taiwan steel plant opens in Vietnam after fish deaths

May 29, 2017 (AFP)

The incident was one of the worst environmental disasters in Vietnam, decimating livelihoods along the central coast and sparking angry protests that continue t...

Tough times for S.Africa town blighted by mine closure

May 28, 2017 (AFP)

It stands as a reminder of better times for the once booming mining town of Blyvooruitzicht, an hour's drive southwest of Johannesburg. Joseph Rammusa, 53, was ...