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Drastic change needed to tackle China smog: experts

Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)

China has cleaned up its air before but experts say that if it wants to avoid the kind of smog that choked the country this week, it must overhaul an economy fu...

Hong Kong tycoon to buy N. Zealand firm for $412 mn

Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)

A firm owned by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Tuesday it will take over a New Zealand waste management company in a deal worth $412 million, marking another...

China to tackle air pollution?

Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection on Monday called for local officials to increase their efforts to issue early warnings for air quality. The ministr...

China pollution anger spills into state media

Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)

Public anger in China at dangerous levels of air pollution, which blanketed Beijing in acrid smog, spread Monday as state media queried official transparency an...

Beijing choked by third day of hazardous smog

Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)

Mask-wearing Beijing residents endured a third day of pollution at hazardous levels on Sunday, as authorities warned that a thick cloud of smog may not lift fro...

Italy extends emergency powers for Costa shipwreck

Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)

Italy on Friday extended a series of emergency powers to deal with the removal of the Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck amid a row over delays in the salvage op...

EU members chided on air quality progress

Jan 11, 2013 (UPI)

Member states are failing to live up to their responsibilities to reduce health-endangering emissions and improve air quality, an EU leader said this week. Euro...

Pollution turns Hong Kong harbour from 'fragrant' to foul

Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)

Hong Kong's name may mean "fragrant harbour", but cargo ships burning dirty fuel in what is one of the world's busiest ports add to a foul layer of pollution th...

Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up

Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)

More than six million volunteers from 96 countries collected an unprecedented 100,000 tonnes of garbage last year as part of a global, web-driven clean-up campa...

Study finds flame retardant pollutants at far-flung locations

Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)

Chemicals used as flame retardants are present as environmental pollutants at locations around the globe, including remote sites in Indonesia, Nepal and Tasmani...

Mercury said risk in developing countries

Jan 10, 2013 (UPI)

People in developing countries are facing increasing health and environmental risks linked to exposure to mercury, a U.N. report says. Parts of Africa, Asia and...

Switch out of wood-burning stoves saves lives

Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)

Reducing the use of wood-burning stoves in an Australian city led to a sharp fall in deaths from respiratory diseases and heart failure, a study published on Tu...

Counting the cost of mercury pollution

Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)

Cleaning up mercury pollution and reducing prenatal exposure to the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) could save the European Union 10,000 million Euro per year, ...

Grounded Alaska oil rig refloated, no pollution seen

Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)

An oil rig which ran aground in Alaska has been refloated and is being towed to a nearby harbor, with no signs of pollution seen, officials said Monday. Salvage...

Tehran air pollution leaves 4,460 dead: health official

Jan 06, 2013 (AFP)

Air pollution in Tehran has left 4,460 people dead in a year, an Iranian health official said in reports Sunday, with another sounding the alarm over high dose ...

Previous Studies on Toxic Effects of BPA Couldn't be Reproduced

Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)

Following a three-year study using more than 2,800 mice, a University of Missouri researcher was not able to replicate a series of previous studies by another r...

Tehran governor orders shutdown over pollution

Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)

Schools, universities and government offices in the Iranian capital will be closed on Saturday for the second time in a month because of high air pollution, Teh...

Groundbreaking air-cleaner saves polluting industrials

Jan 01, 2013 (SPX)

Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleaning inventi...

Wood-burning sets off pollution alarm bells in Athens

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

Air pollution in Athens has surged in recent days because of people choosing wood over more expensive fuels to heat their homes in the grips of a continuing eco...

Russia identifies main environmental risks

Dec 26, 2012 (UPI)

Wildfires and parliamentary lobbyists are among threats Russia's environment will face in the coming year, ecologists and government officials said Wednesday. T...