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Madrid lifts partial car ban as pollution eases
Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)
Madrid on Thursday lifted an unprecedented ban on half of most private cars as pollution in the Spanish capital eased up. A day earlier and for the first time i...
In Spain first, Madrid bans half of cars to fight smog
Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)
Madrid's city hall announced Wednesday it had ordered half of most private cars off the roads to fight a particularly bad bout of pollution, a first in Spain. F...
RIT researchers estimate 10,000 metric tons of plastic enter Great Lakes every year
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
A new study by Rochester Institute of Technology that inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes could help inform cleanup efforts...
Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutant in seabirds
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered that levels of mercury in seabirds off the coast of British Columbia have remained relatively stable over the past 50 years. This mi...
China's smoggiest city closes schools amid public anger
Dec 21, 2016 (AFP)
China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday as much of the country suffered its sixth day under an oppressive haze, sparking public anger about the slow res...
Planes grounded as smog chokes China for fifth day
Dec 20, 2016 (AFP)
Heavy smog suffocated northeast China for a fifth day Tuesday, with hundreds of flights cancelled and road and rail transport grinding to a halt under the low v...
China chokes under heavy smog with worse ahead
Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)
Hospital visits spiked, roads were closed and flights cancelled Monday as China choked under a vast cloud of toxic smog, with forecasters warning worse was yet ...
Mosul battle leaving legacy of environmental damage
Dec 17, 2016 (AFP)
The battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is leaving a legacy of environmental damage and health risks that will pose dangers to people for years ...
Beijing issues red alert for severe air pollution
Dec 15, 2016 (AFP)
Beijing issued its first air pollution red alert for 2016 Thursday, as choking smog is expected to cover the city and surrounding areas in north China during th...
Researchers create new way to trap dangerous gases
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has developed a novel method for trapping potentially harmful gases within microscopic organo-metalli...
Tehran traffic 'unbearable', says police chief
Dec 13, 2016 (AFP)
The transport police chief in Iran's capital added his voice on Tuesday to criticism about the city's interminable traffic jams, the bane of almost every Tehran...
French doctors urge action over pollution levels
Dec 09, 2016 (AFP)
French doctors on Friday seized on a winter pollution alert in Paris to draw attention to year-round smog levels which they said killed tens of thousands of peo...
Unruly drivers undermine Paris pollution ban
Dec 08, 2016 (AFP)
French police struggled to impose anti-pollution measures on motorists around Paris on Thursday as the city remained shrouded in smog during its worst winter po...
Paris chokes under worst winter pollution in decade
Dec 07, 2016 (AFP)
Paris was smothered Wednesday by its worst winter pollution in a decade, with commuters enjoying free public transport and half of the cars ordered off the road...
Environmentalists mobilize for battle with Trump
Dec 07, 2016 (AFP)
Environmentalists are gearing up to battle President-elect Donald Trump, who promised on the campaign trail to roll back laws and regulations that protect the e...
Paradise lost: How toxic water destroyed Pakistan's largest lake
Dec 06, 2016 (AFP)
For generations the Mohanna tribe have lived, loved, worked, and played on Pakistan's Manchar Lake; their floating settlement serving their needs from birth to ...
Greenpeace urges microbead ban to protect ocean life
Nov 25, 2016 (AFP)
Environmental group Greenpeace is calling for a ban in Britain on plastic "microbeads", found in many cosmetics, which they warn pollute the oceans and poison m...
New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
On military live fire training ranges, troops practice firing artillery shells, drop bombs on old tanks or derelict buildings and test the capacity of new weapo...
Europe air pollution causes 467,000 early deaths a year: report
Nov 23, 2016 (AFP)
Almost nine out of 10 European city dwellers breathe air that is harmful to their health, though the continent's air quality is slowly improving, the European E...
Canada pressed to make clean environment a constitutional right
Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)
A pioneering environmentalist this week called on Canada to make clean environments a constitutional right -- an idea hatched decades ago and widely adopted but...
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