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Ship's captain jailed over New Zealand oil spill
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
The captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when it ploughed into an offshore reef were both jailed for se...
Italy ditches plan for rubbish dump near Hadrian's villa
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
The Italian government on Friday ditched plans to build an emergency rubbish dump near Hadrian's Villa, the famous emperor's summer residence near Rome, which h...
Germany, India in talks over treating Bhopal waste
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
A German development aid organisation said Thursday it was in talks with the Indian government to dispose of 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas ...
I. Coast toxic spill victims want compensation fund inquiry
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Victims of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast said Wednesday that officials should follow up the firing of a minister accused of stealing money from their compe...
Hungarian red mud plant ordered to solve dust scare
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
Hungarian authorities threatened Monday to take the owners of an alumina plant responsible for a red-mud disaster in 2010 to court if they did not deal with a n...
Chemical exposure influences rat behavior for generations
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
When pregnant rats are exposed to a common crop chemical, their descendants three generations later show more anxiety and stress than the offspring of unexposed...
Australian tug reaches ship adrift off Barrier Reef
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
An Australian tug boat Sunday reached a cargo ship which had been drifting off the Great Barrier Reef, as environmentalists warned that greater shipping traffic...
Troubled freighter drifts toward Great Barrier Reef
May 19, 2012 (AFP)
A broken-down cargo ship was drifting towards Australia's Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with fears of major damage if it were to run aground at the World Heritag...
Nanotube 'sponge' has potential in oil spill cleanup
May 17, 2012 (SPX)
A carbon nanotube sponge that can soak up oil in water with unparalleled efficiency has been developed with help from computational simulations performed at the...
Plastic trash altering ocean habitats
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate stu...
Olympics: London faces up to 'greenest' Games pledge
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
London has pledged to host the greenest Olympic Games ever staged, but it could take years before the promises start to flower. The pledge was made seven years ...
1,500 children in Nigeria village suffer lead-poisoning
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
International medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that 1,500 children in a mining village in northwest Nigeria have suffered lead-poisoning ...
Peru says 5,000 birds, nearly 900 dolphins dead
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
The Peruvian government said Wednesday that 5,000 birds, mostly pelicans, and nearly 900 dolphins have died off the country's northern coast, possibly due to ri...
Pacific plastic soup grew 100-fold
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
The vast swirl of plastic waste floating in the North Pacific has grown 100-fold over the last 40 years, according to a research paper published Wednesday. And ...
Beijing to get rid of 1,200 polluting enterprises
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities in Beijing said Wednesday they plan to get rid of 1,200 high-polluting enterprises by 2015 to improve air quality in the Chinese capital, one of the...
China says shuts Coke plant after chlorine reports
Apr 30, 2012 (AFP)
Coca-Cola has been ordered to temporarily halt production at a bottling plant in northern China after media reports of chlorine in its products, according to a ...
Scientists find higher concentrations of heavy metals in post-oil spill oysters from Gulf of Mexico
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
As the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico approaches, a team of scientists led by Dr. Peter Roopnarine of the Califor...
China's economic growth has pollution cost
Apr 27, 2012 (UPI)
China's stunning economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future, a study says. An analysis of the balance ...
Green-glowing fish provides new insights into health impacts of pollution
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set to become much easier thanks to a new green-glowing zebrafish. Created b...
Nanosponges soak up oil again and again
Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)
The researchers, who collaborated with peers in labs around the nation and in Spain, Belgium and Japan, revealed their discovery in Nature's online open-access ...
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