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SDGSAT-1 aids in identifying urban light pollution sources
Mar 01, 2024 (SPX)
Published in the International Journal of Digital Earth, the study reveals the increasing concern over blue light pollution triggered by the widespread adoption...
'I need to fight': UK steelworkers in fear as less pollution means less jobs
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
Last month, Tata Steel announced it would close its last two blast furnaces to make way for a less polluting electric arc furnace that requires far less labour....
Mexico City flights canceled as volcano spews ash
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
The Mexico City International Airport said on social media that national and international operators have canceled 22 flights "due to airplane safety checks hav...
Plastic pellets blight Belgian town as EU weighs action
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
A spectacular spill of microplastics on Spain's Galician coast cast a spotlight on the problem late last year, after a container filled with "nurdles" fell from...
EU lawmakers adopt tougher rules on environmental crimes
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
One of the main sources of income for organised crime, environmental crime has been surging worldwide by between five and seven percent per year, according to E...
New dyeing method could help jeans shrink toxic problem
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
Scientists have been searching for ways to make a more sustainable form of indigo, used for centuries to colour textiles, but which in its modern synthetic form...
US warns of environmental disaster from cargo ship hit by Huthi rebels
Feb 24, 2024 (AFP)
Rubymar, a Belize-flagged, British-registered and Lebanese-operated cargo ship carrying combustible fertilizer, was damaged in a Sunday missile strike claimed b...
Bangkok says work from home as pollution blankets city
Feb 15, 2024 (AFP)
City authorities asked for cooperation from employers to help workers in the city of about 11 million people avoid the pollution, which is expected to last into...
Agent Orange policy change highlights progress for vets, civilian military expert says
Feb 12, 2024 (UPI)
Patrick Murphy, the 32nd U.S. Army under secretary and the first Iraq War veteran elected to Congress, told UPI on Monday that the Biden administration has "mad...
When nanoplastics are not what they seem
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Empa researchers from Bernd Nowack's group in the Technology and Society laboratory have now joined forces with colleagues from China to take a closer look at n...
London Metal Exchange faces 'dirty metals' lawsuit
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
The LME denies the allegations. London Mining Network, comprising green and human rights campaigners, is filing the "landmark" legal action at the High Court al...
Debate smoulders over beloved Chinese New Year fireworks tradition
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
In the past, Chinese cities could sound like war zones in the weeks surrounding Lunar New Year, thanks to the centuries-old custom of lighting festive explosive...
Biden strengthens US soot regulations, angering industry
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
It comes as the Democratic incumbent faces a tough election rematch against the likely Republican candidate Donald Trump, who rolled back dozens of air pollutio...
Oil slicks blamed on Turkish strikes blight northeast Syria river
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
"All the farmers in the area have stopped using the river for irrigation," said Awwad, 30, from a village near Tal Brak, in Hasakeh province. "We'd be killing o...
World's biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air pollution mission
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
ICC prosecutor wants court to try 'environmental crimes'
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
Karim Khan said chemical attacks or assaults on nuclear plants could come under the existing terms of offences the court is authorised to prosecute: genocide, w...
Contaminated soil landslide threatens Danish village
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
"It's three to six million cubic metres of soil, clay, and polluted dirt coming down from that hill, and it's all placed there by the company that was there," f...
Scientists study levels of toxic mercury in Antarctic seals, whales
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Researcher Diego Mojica lowers his rifle. The mammal, one of the largest predators on the White Continent after the orca, flinches from the impact of the remote...
Chance for Italy's toxic steelworks to finally go green
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Italy's hard-right government is set to decide this week whether to place the debt-ridden former Ilva plant under state administration, in a bid to secure produ...
Swiss watchmaker says it's time to make luxury sustainable
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
The small ID Geneve start-up launched in 2020, vowing to make high-end watches with a climate- and environmentally-friendly circular production approach using n...
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