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Three activists risking their lives for the planet
Sep 18, 2024 (AFP)
Here are the stories of three campaigners who have faced violence and repression trying to stop wildcat gold mining in Ecuador, illegal shrimp farming in Indone...
Environmental activist who feared for life killed in Honduras
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
Juan Lopez, 46, was gunned down as he left church Saturday in the northeastern town of Tocoa, his widow Thelma Pena told AFP. Castro condemned the "vile murder"...
US statewide bans on plastic bags reduced beach pollution: analysis
Sep 09, 2024 (AFP)
The number of grocery bags collected by volunteers for Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic, a period ma...
Greenpeace sounds alarm on microplastics ingested by Hong Kong wildlife
Sep 09, 2024 (AFP)
The report was released ahead of November talks in South Korea, where governments will be looking to seal a potentially groundbreaking deal tackling the problem...
Air pollution declined in Europe and China in 2023: UN
Sep 05, 2024 (AFP)
Nanoparticles known as PM2.5 -- due to their size smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter -- pose a severe health risk if inhaled over long periods of time as ...
Burning trash a major source of plastic pollution: study
Sep 04, 2024 (AFP)
A world-first global register of plastic pollution, published in the journal Nature, identifies India as the biggest source of such trash and burning garbage as...
'Queen of Trash' in dock in Sweden's biggest toxic waste scandal
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
A once-acclaimed waste management company is accused of dumping or burying some 200,000 tonnes of waste from the Stockholm area at 21 sites, with no intention o...
Assessing microplastic contamination in marine plankton to mitigate global pollution
Sep 01, 2024 (SPX)
The team investigated the effects of five different chemical digestive aids on various types of plastics, using low, medium, and high concentrations of zooplank...
Greek port city in a state of emergency over flood of dead fish
Aug 31, 2024 (AFP)
The month-long emergency declaration issued by the climate ministry's secretary general of civil protection, Vassilis Papageorgiou, will inject funding and reso...
Used to fresh air, Brazil's modernist capital chokes on wildfire smoke
Aug 29, 2024 (AFP)
Several parts of Brazil are suffocating due to raging wildfires, but the fumes are new to the modernist capital, whose residents are used to expansive blue skie...
Trash overwhelms Havana as garbage trucks lack parts, fuel
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
Mountains of rubbish on the streets give off a foul odor and attract clouds of flies in several parts of the city of 2.1 million people, which has three open-ai...
South Asia air pollution fell in 2022, but remains major killer
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
But the region continues to breathe the world's most-polluted air, with its residents losing more than 3.5 years of life expectancy on average, the annual Air Q...
Experts meet as final global plastic treaty talks near
Aug 24, 2024 (AFP)
The four-day gathering is a largely technical waypoint on the road to final negotiations in late November in South Korea's Busan. There, countries are hoping to...
Study finds Lausanne toxic soil did not worsen health
Aug 21, 2024 (AFP)
A waste incineration plant in Switzerland's fourth-biggest city -- closed in 2005 -- was blamed for traces of dioxin uncovered in 2021. Dioxins, which belong to...
Pollution levels on Lake Geneva beaches 'concerning': study
Aug 20, 2024 (AFP)
Researchers found a "concerning" density of tiny microplastic particles ranging from 0.3 mm to 5 mm (0.01 to 0.20 inches) in length -- 7,600 particles per squar...
Brazil fishermen turn to mobile app to combat pollution scourge
Aug 20, 2024 (AFP)
He will upload the video to an app developed to expose environmental damage in the iconic bay crucial for tourism and the fishing industry, but plagued by spill...
Climate activists delay cruise ship arriving in Amsterdam
Aug 18, 2024 (AFP)
The "Serenade of the Seas" with a thousand cabins was finally able to resume its route to the popular tourist desination, according to Carlijn van Essen, a spok...
Uganda garbage landslide death toll rises to 34
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
The collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi at the weekend buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid waste. An MP for the ar...
Uganda garbage landslide death toll rises to 30
Aug 14, 2024 (AFP)
Several dozen people are also still missing, police said, after the collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi on Saturday that buried people,...
Death toll from Uganda garbage landslide rises to 25
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
The huge mound in the Ugandan capital's northern district of Kiteezi collapsed on Saturday, burying people and livestock. "By late yesterday evening, we had rec...
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