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Japan air purifier sales surge amid China smog warning

Mar 22, 2013 (AFP)

Japan logged a huge surge in air purifier sales last month, as Tokyo warned that smog was blowing into its territory from China, which is grappling with an air ...

Hong Kong light pollution 'one of world's worst'

Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)

Hong Kong is one of the world's worst cities for light pollution with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, researchers said We...

China to more than double air monitoring network

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

China will more than double the number of cities covered by air quality monitoring, a top environment official said Friday, as part of efforts to tackle heavy s...

Little faith in China leaders' pollution promises

Mar 13, 2013 (AFP)

Thick grey smog pressed against Zhao Jian's windshield, blotting visibility to two metres as he drove through China's most polluted city. "I don't remember ever...

Dead pigs contaminating Chinese river?

Mar 11, 2013 (UPI)

Carcasses of thousands of pigs found in Shanghai's Huangpu River has heightened concerns about water pollution in China. State-run Xinhua news agency reported M...

Japan warns about smog drifting from China

Mar 05, 2013 (AFP)

A local government in southwestern Japan on Tuesday advised residents to stay indoors or wear masks when they go outside in the nation's first official health w...

Electronic waste recycling on the increase

Mar 05, 2013 (UPI)

A new business collaboration in Chile will advance electronic waste recycling, an industry witnessing phenomenal growth in Latin America. Californian firm Green...

Toxic gas leak in South Korea, 11 hospitalised

Mar 05, 2013 (AFP)

A toxic gas leak Tuesday at a chemical factory in South Korea left 11 workers hospitalised and forced the evacuation of residents living nearby, local officials...

Environmental Issues Rank Low Among Most People's Concerns

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

A newly released international study reveals that the issue of climate change is not a priority for people in the United States and around the world. The survey...

Stanford scientists help shed light on key component of China's pollution problem

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

It's no secret that China is faced with some of the world's worst pollution. Until now, however, information on the magnitude, scope and impacts of a major cont...

China lawyer appeals 'state secret' pollution claim

Feb 27, 2013 (AFP)

A Chinese lawyer has appealed against an official refusal to release the results of a national soil pollution survey on the grounds that it was a "state secret"...

Sewage lagoons remove most - but not all - pharmaceuticals

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, which established regulations for the discharge of pollutants to waterways and supported the building o...

Olympics: Illegal dump tarnishes 'green' Sochi Games

Feb 24, 2013 (AFP)

Away from the construction bustle of Sochi's Olympic Park, where Russia will host the Winter Olympics next February, residents of a small community north of cen...

China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages'

Feb 22, 2013 (AFP)

China's environment ministry has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages", after years of assertions by academics and domestic media that polluted areas ...

China considers BBQ ban to combat smog: state media

Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)

China is considering a ban on barbecues to help reduce air pollution in built-up areas after heavy smog recently choked large swathes of the country, state medi...

Smog causes surge in heart deaths: study

Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)

Exposure to higher levels of fine particulates -- the airborne pollution that is an emerging problem in many Asian cities -- causes a sharp rise in deaths from ...

Trying to revive the Philippines' toxic river heart

Feb 19, 2013 (AFP)

Boys shout in delight as they flip backwards off a bridge. Fishermen quietly cast rods out. They are joyful acts that should belong to an earlier era, before th...

Live ammunition found at Mozambique rubbish dump

Feb 18, 2013 (AFP)

Workers have unearthed hundreds of rounds of live ammunition at a garbage dump in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, local press reported Monday, years after a deadl...

Bisphenol A may not be negatively affecting humans: studies

Feb 16, 2013 (AFP)

A total of 150 scientific studies have shown that bisphenol A (BPA), a controversial component of plastic bottles and canned food linings, may be used in quanti...

Anxiety drug pollution makes fish go rogue: study

Feb 14, 2013 (AFP)

Anti-anxiety drugs find their way into wastewater where they make fish more fearless and antisocial, with potentially serious ecological consequences, researche...