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US appeals court upholds pollution limits
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
A US federal court of appeals on Tuesday upheld the right of environmental regulators to curb harmful carbon emissions via clean car standards and limit industr...
Lead poisoning 'epidemic' plagues California condors
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
The endangered California condor faces an "epidemic" of lead poisoning from scavenging carcasses contaminated by lead bullets despite years of costly conservati...
New way of monitoring environmental impact could help save rural communities in China
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
University of Southampton researchers are pioneering a new way of measuring and monitoring the impact of industrial and agricultural development on the environm...
New Software Forecasts Noise Levels in a Street
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
University of Granada researchers have designed a new software solution to determine noise levels in a street in the future. This new system predicts noise freq...
Red Cross sounds alarm about weapon contamination
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
The International Red Cross sounded the alarm at the UN conference on sustainable development here Thursday about the damage caused by unexploded munitions and ...
Rights group slams 'lawless' Indian mining industry
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
Human Rights Watch blasted the Indian government on Thursday for failing to regulate the country's "out of control" mining industry which it said fuelled corrup...
Tackle rising population, consumption: science academies
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
The world's science academies on Thursday warned the upcoming Rio Summit that Earth faced a dangerous double whammy posed by voracious consumption and a populat...
UN environment summit opens, but prospects grim
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty years after the first Earth Summit, a renewed bid to rally the world behind a common environmental blueprint opened Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro against a...
'Mysterious' haze blankets Chinese metropolis
Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)
Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, ...
Brazilian slum's green oasis a boon to recycling
Jun 10, 2012 (AFP)
Monkeys swinging from branch to branch, a special gardening section for children and stunning sea views. This green oasis finds its home in an unlikely place: a...
Sao Paulo environment czar roots for cities at Rio+20
Jun 09, 2012 (AFP)
For the past eight years, Eduardo Jorge has been spearheading efforts to turn Sao Paulo into a greener city that reconciles stunning economic growth with a more...
German agency to incinerate Bhopal waste: India
Jun 08, 2012 (AFP)
The Indian government on Friday approved a proposal for a German environmental agency to dispose of over 350 tonnes of waste produced by the Bhopal factory wher...
Sweden may have to import garbage
Jun 07, 2012 (UPI)
A Swedish industry association said the country may have to start importing waste from other countries to keep its power plant incinerators in operation. Swedis...
Wildlife groups sue US over lead bullets
Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)
Seven US conservation groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing the government of failing to regulate the use of ...
Consumption driving 'unprecedented' environment damage: UN
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
Population growth and unsustainable consumption are driving Earth towards "unprecedented" environmental destruction, the UN said in a report Wednesday ahead of ...
Urban wasteland: World Bank sees global garbage crisis
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
The world's city dwellers are fast producing more and more trash in a "looming crisis" that will pose huge financial and environmental burdens, the World Bank w...
Study finds emissions from widely used cookstoves vary with use
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner - and a cloud of pollutants and particles that threaten both health and the...
Rio closes Latin America's biggest landfill
Jun 03, 2012 (AFP)
Latin America's largest landfill was closed Sunday after 34 years, just days before Rio de Janeiro hosts a major UN conference on sustainable development. Rio M...
EU threatens Italy with court action over Rome trash
May 31, 2012 (AFP)
The European Commission gave Italy on Thursday two months to comply with EU landfill laws, accusing authorities of improperly treating waste dumped in Rome's bi...
Fears as Latin America's largest trash dump closes
May 28, 2012 (AFP)
On a mountain of trash, a man takes a quick break in a sliver of shade before resuming his sorting work in Latin America's largest garbage dump hugging Rio's fa...
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