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Environmentalists slam lobbyist influence on plastic talks
Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)
"It's a direct conflict of interest," said Delphine Levi Alvares, global petrochemical campaign coordinator at the Center for International Environmental Law (C...
China advances coordinated strategies to tackle PM2.5 and ozone pollution
Nov 27, 2024 (SPX)
PM2.5 and O3, which are linked to serious health issues such as heart disease, asthma, and lung damage, remain persistent problems despite efforts to reduce air...
'New wave' as start-up sweeps up Thai ocean plastic
Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)
The villagers, members of the semi-nomadic Moken people, are selling to Tide, a start-up attempting to create new value from old plastic collected from or near ...
Chinese island plastic pollution turned into artistic omens
Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)
China is the world's largest plastic producer, and the islands -- a niche tourist destination -- sit in the cross-stream of several highly developed eastern pen...
Plastics: lifesaver turned environmental threat
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
From the 1950s, plastics enjoyed a positive image "in all areas of life", according to the Plastic Atlas from the Heinrich Boell Foundation. But with plastic no...
Plastic pollution talks must not fail: UN environment chief
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Negotiators are deeply divided on issues including whether to limit new plastic manufacturing and phase out some chemicals, raising concerns that the talks coul...
'Easy, convenient, cheap': how single-use plastic rules the world
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Negotiators hope to reach the world's first treaty on plastic pollution this year, but across five very different countries, AFP found single-use plastic remain...
Deep divisions on display at plastic pollution treaty talks
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
The meeting started just hours after a chaotic end to the COP29 climate talks in Baku, where delegates agreed to a boost in climate funding that developing coun...
Taxes, curbs on new plastic could slash pollution; K-pop fans take aim at CD, merchandise waste
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Researchers used artificial intelligence to pinpoint four new policies they say could reduce the amount of "mismanaged" plastic waste -- more likely to leak int...
Mounting economic costs of India's killer smog
Nov 24, 2024 (AFP)
India's capital New Delhi frequently ranks among the world's most polluted cities. Each winter, vehicle and factory emissions couple with farm fires from surrou...
'Moment of truth' for world-first plastic pollution treaty
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Countries will have a week in South Korea's Busan from Monday to round off two years of negotiations. They remain deeply divided on whether the deal should limi...
Delhi children struggle with online schools as court orders more smog restrictions for vehicles
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
The nine-year-old is among nearly two million students in and around New Delhi told to stay home after authorities once again ordered schools to shut because of...
Greece pushes green transition on its fragile islands
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Hundreds of Greek islands are facing major challenges including water scarcity, said Dimitris Lianos, the mayor of Naxos, the largest island in the Cyclades arc...
India court tells smog-hit capital to step up vehicle restrictions
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
The traffic-clogged megacity of more than 30 million people has been wreathed in poisonous smog this month, with pollution levels surging more than 60 times the...
Pakistan to reopen Punjab schools after smog improves
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
Schools have been closed for nearly two weeks in the province, home to nearly half the country's 240 million population, as dense smog hit "hazardous" levels. "...
Russian invasion toll on environment $71 billion, Ukraine says
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
"Nature during this war is like a silent victim," said Svitlana Grynchuk, Ukraine's minister of environmental protection and natural resources. The climate impa...
Illegal farm fires fuel Indian capital's smog misery
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
The northern state of Punjab -- an agriculture hub often dubbed as "India's wheat bowl" -- recorded 1,251 farm fires on Monday, according to the government-run ...
India's capital shuts schools as smog exceeds 60 times WHO limit
Nov 18, 2024 (AFP)
Various piecemeal government initiatives have failed to measurably address the problem, with the smog blamed for thousands of premature deaths each year and par...
India's capital shuts schools because of smog
Nov 18, 2024 (AFP)
Levels of PM2.5 pollutants -- dangerous cancer-causing microparticles that enter the bloodstream through the lungs -- were recorded at 57 times above the World ...
India's capital shuts schools as 'death trap' smog chokes city
Nov 18, 2024 (AFP)
Various piecemeal government initiatives have failed to measurably address the problem, with the smog blamed for thousands of premature deaths each year and par...
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