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Measuring mercury levels: Nano-velcro detects water-borne toxic metals
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
A strip of glass covered in hairy nanoparticles can cheaply and conveniently measure mercury, which attacks the nervous system, and other toxic metals in fluids...
Indonesian lives risked on 'world's most polluted' river
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
With dozens of bright green rice paddies, flocks of kites in the sky and children laughing nearby, at first glance the village of Sukamaju in western Java has a...
Oil spill ship's officers deported from New Zealand
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
The captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster were deported to the Philippines Thursday after completing hal...
Chemical use inflicts mounting bill on poor countries: UN
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
The spiralling use of chemicals, especially in developing countries, is inflicting a rising bill by damaging people's health and the environment, according to a...
Philippine gold mine struggles to plug waste spill
Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)
The Philippines' largest gold mine said Tuesday it was struggling to contain a waste spillage from its tailings dam which has forced it to suspend operations fo...
Oil spilling from Turkish bulk carrier wreck off Cape Town
Sep 01, 2012 (AFP)
Oil from a Turkish bulk carrier that ran aground three years ago off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa's prime tourist city, was spilling onto two beaches on...
Wind concentrates pollutants with unexpected order in an urban environment
Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)
Cities - with their concrete canyons, isolated greenery, and congested traffic - create seemingly chaotic and often powerful wind patterns known as urban flows....
China wrestles with acid rain threat
Aug 27, 2012 (UPI)
An increase in automobile emissions exposed China's Guangdong province to damage from acid rain in the first half of this year, a report found. The report by th...
Earthworms soak up heavy metal
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
Earthworms could be used to extract toxic heavy metals, including cadmium and lead, from solid waste from domestic refuse collection and waste from vegetable an...
Italians protest against pollution from steelworks
Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)
About 2,000 people on Friday demonstrated in southern Italy against pollution from steelworks that legal authorities want to close at the cost of 20,000 jobs. H...
Vietnam, US begin historic Agent Orange cleanup
Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)
From deformed infants to grandparents with cancer, families near Vietnam's Danang Airbase have long blamed the toxic legacy of war for their ills. Now after a d...
Worldwide increase of air pollution
Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)
Hot summer days cause in large cities very seldom great happiness among inhabitants. On those days the air is highly polluted with automobile and industrial emi...
Philippine gold mine suspended over spill
Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)
The Philippines has indefinitely suspended the operations of the country's largest gold mine after a waste spillage near a major river, officials said Monday. P...
Top researcher snubs French honour over 'industrial crimes'
Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)
A top researcher and campaigner on industrial health issues has refused France's highest honour in protest at official inaction over what she described as "indu...
1 in 5 streams damaged by mine pollution in southern West Virginia
Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)
Water pollution from surface coal mining has degraded more than 22 percent of streams and rivers in southern West Virginia to the point they may now qualify as ...
Suez Environment posts sharply lower Q2 profit
Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)
The French water and waste management group Suez Environment said on Wednesday net profit plummeted in the second quarter by 82 percent from a year ago to 40 mi...
Japan firm says China waste claims 'groundless'
Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)
A Japanese paper firm whose factory was at the centre of deadly weekend protests in China said Monday it was concerned about the demonstration, but rejected pol...
Pollution protestors clash with police in China
Jul 28, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of people demonstrating over fears of pollution from a sewage pipeline at a paper factory in east China clashed with police Saturday, the latest in a ...
Italy steel plant pollution case sparks anger and strikes
Jul 27, 2012 (AFP)
The closure of sections of Italy's main steel plant as part of an investigation into health and environmental pollution sparked heated reactions on Friday, as h...
Olympics: Bhopal victims organise protest Games
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
Disabled children suffering the effects of the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India are to take part in a "Special Olympics" on Thursday to protest against London 2012...
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