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Health threat of global plastics projected to soar; Tire companies face US trial on additive said to kill salmon
Jan 26, 2026 (AFP)
A British-French team of researchers attempted to cover all the different ways that plastic affects health, from oil and gas extraction during production to all...
Activists urge halt to Kushner's luxury Albania resort plans
Jan 24, 2026 (AFP)
Albania -- one of the poorest European countries -- recently joined the US president's newly created "Board of Peace" aimed at resolving conflicts. Kushner plan...
With monitors and lawsuits, Pakistanis fight for clean air
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
More than a decade ago, engineer Abid Omar had a "sneaking suspicion" that what the government described as seasonal fog was actually a new phenomenon. "It wasn...
EU ban on 'forever chemicals' set for delay
Jan 19, 2026 (AFP)
Brussels has said that prohibiting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in everyday consumer goods -- from pizza boxes to clothing -- is a "priority". But...
UK court denies BHP bid to appeal Brazil mine disaster ruling
Jan 19, 2026 (AFP)
A dam collapse in 2015 at an iron-ore mine run by a firm co-owned by BHP killed 19 people and unleashed a deluge of toxic mud into villages, fields, rainforest,...
Hundreds in London protest against Beijing 'mega embassy'
Jan 17, 2026 (AFP)
Protesters, their faces mostly covered with scarves or masks, chanted "No to Chinese embassy" and waved flags reading "Free Hong Kong. Revolution now". Others h...
Albania's waste-choked rivers worsen deadly floods
Jan 13, 2026 (AFP)
Since early January, torrential downpours have left 14,000 hectares flooded, around 1,200 homes inundated and at least one person dead in Albania. Although floo...
Corn cob biochar filters pull ammonia and micro and nanoplastics from water
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
"We are taking something farmers usually throw away and turning it into a tool to protect water and public health," said lead author Ruogu Tang from the Departm...
Smart biochar sorbents target persistent pollutants in complex water streams
Jan 07, 2026 (SPX)
Molecular imprinting forms a polymer around a template molecule so that, after the template is removed, the material retains recognition cavities that match the...
Sunlight driven microplastic leaching reshapes dissolved pollution in water
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
A research team examined how MPs DOM forms and evolves by running controlled leaching experiments on four common microplastics polyethylene, polyethylene tereph...
French ban on 'forever chemicals' in cosmetics, clothing enters force; delays plastic cup ban 4 years
Dec 30, 2025 (AFP)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are human-made chemicals used since the late 1940s to mass produce the non-stick, waterproof and stain-resistant trea...
France pushes back plastic cup ban by four years
Dec 30, 2025 (AFP)
The ban was meant to start on January 1. But the ministry for ecological transition said that results from a recent review into the "technical feasibility of el...
'Make emitters responsible': Thailand's clean air activists
Dec 28, 2025 (AFP)
Each winter, large parts of Thailand are plagued by haze caused by weather patterns, seasonal burning, vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions. Years of effort...
'Waiting to die': the dirty business of recycling in Vietnam
Dec 16, 2025 (AFP)
More waste arrives daily, piling up like technicolour snowdrifts along the roads and rivers of Xa Cau, one of hundreds of "craft" recycling villages encircling ...
Islamabad puts drivers on notice as smog crisis worsens
Dec 14, 2025 (AFP)
"This is unfair," he said after being told to pay 1,000 rupees ($3.60), with the threat of having his truck impounded if he did not "fix" the problem. "I was co...
Hanoi chokes in toxic smog; as 'Sorrow of War' sells out after viral controversy
Dec 11, 2025 (AFP)
The city of nine million ranked second only to India's New Delhi on IQAir's ranking of most polluted cities on Thursday morning, improving slightly in the after...
Delhi records over 200,000 respiratory illness cases due to toxic air
Dec 03, 2025 (AFP)
Delhi, with its sprawling metropolitan region of 30 million residents, is regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals. India's health ministry tol...
Watchdog says rollback of EU green rules rushed, unbalanced
Nov 27, 2025 (AFP)
The push to amend the new environmental and human rights rules is part of a broader business-friendly drive to slash EU red tape, paring back a slew of laws on ...
Trump admin aims to roll back limits on deadly air pollution
Nov 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Environmental Protection Agency in 2024 had strengthened limits on fine particulate matter, including soot, which can lead to health problems including stro...
Greenpeace calls for probe after Malaysia river changes colour
Nov 21, 2025 (AFP)
Images showed a stretch of peninsular Malaysia's second-longest river, Sungai Perak, in a bright shade of turquoise, raising fresh concerns over pollution and m...
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