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Sweden aims to boost plastic recycling with giant plant
Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)
Infrared lights, lasers, cameras and even artificial intelligence are used to sort the piles of plastic waste, Mattias Philipsson, CEO of Swedish Plastic Recycl...
Plastic 'interceptor' tackles trash in Bangkok river
Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)
The Ocean Cleanup project launched on the Chao Phraya river, its so-called "interceptor" -- a boat-like structure trailing a floating barrier -- using the river...
Clothing giant Shein in focus as France targets fast fashion
Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)
Customers love the Chinese-founded firm's massive catalogue of ultra-cheap items, from $8 sundresses to 48-cent bracelets, at a time when inflation has shrunk p...
Rights court condemns Peru over one of world's most polluted towns
Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)
The city of La Oroya, situated in a high-altitude valley at 3,750 meters (12,300 feet), is home to a heavy metal smelter that has poisoned residents and the env...
Trash tidal wave coats normally pristine Bali beach
Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation has a mammoth marine waste problem, ranking as one of the world's biggest contributors of plastic pollution and marine debris. Images...
Rising scourge of e-waste a 'catastrophe' for environment: UN
Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)
Less than one quarter of the 62 million tonnes of e-waste produced in 2022 was recycled, resulting in heavy metals, plastics and toxic chemicals leaking from ju...
Thai PM vows to curb air pollution in tourist hotspot Chiang Mai
Mar 16, 2024 (AFP)
The picturesque historic city is hugely popular with visitors but annually suffers dire air quality in the early months of the year when farmers burn crops. Pri...
Climate protesters under fire in Europe: UN expert
Mar 16, 2024 (AFP)
Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, told AFP in an interview this week that he was deeply troubled by the hardening tone against...
Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai tops world's most polluted cities
Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)
The city topped air monitoring website IQAir's table of the world's most polluted cities early Friday. Levels of PM2.5 pollutants -- cancer-causing microparticl...
French parliament votes to slow down fast fashion
Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)
The vote makes France the first country in the world "legislating to limit the excesses of ultra fast fashion", said Christophe Bechu, minister for the ecologic...
Adagio in sea: Coral larvae 'settle near sounds of healthy reefs'
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
With the future of the world's biodiversity-rich coral reefs threatened by climate change, some experts are looking for rehabilitation strategies to go alongsid...
Smog and sick kids: Thai pupils endure air pollution
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
Pupils at Suan Lumphini School assemble each morning under a coloured flag indicating the day's air quality -- red for worst, yellow for second worst, blue for ...
Clampdown on food waste, fast fashion in EU sights
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
Brussels estimates that the 27-nation bloc generates 60 million tonnes of food waste a year -- or 131 kilograms per person. That represents a loss of some 132 b...
Expert says 'no immediate danger' from sunken ship off Yemen
Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)
The Belize-flagged, Lebanese-operated Rubymar sank in the Red Sea on March 2 with 21,000 metric tonnes of ammonium phosphate sulfate fertiliser on board, accord...
Pollution probe at Italy's Taranto steelworks: reports
Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)
The former Ilva plant in the southern city, dogged by decades of environmental and health scandals, was placed under state supervision last month, removing cont...
Hanoi chokes as Vietnam capital tops most polluted cities list
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
The city topped air monitoring website IQAir's table of the world's most polluted cities early Tuesday afternoon. Levels of PM2.5 pollutants -- cancer-causing m...
10 million Thais treated for pollution health problems in 2023
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
The kingdom's cities often rank among the worst in the world for PM 2.5 particles -- so tiny they can enter the bloodstream -- during the early months of the ye...
Cargo ship sunk by Huthi strike poses environmental risk: US military
Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)
The Huthis claimed the February 18 attack against the Rubymar, a cargo ship flying a Belizean flag and operated by a Lebanese firm, which transported combustibl...
Venezuela military evicts hundreds from illegal gold mine
Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)
The group included 131 minors evicted from the Bulla Loca mine in the Bolivar state in the Amazon region, general Domingo Hernandez Larez of the armed forces' o...
French police arrest eight activists targeting chemicals site
Mar 02, 2024 (AFP)
Around 300 people from the Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate groups cut through fences to reach the Arkema site at Pierre-Benite factory near Lyon in s...
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