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'Paradigm shift' needed on plastics health risk: researchers
Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)
So little research is currently available that regulators should shift from an assumption that plastics are safe, to insisting on rigorous testing before produc...
Toxic storms blamed on climate change cloud Tajikistan
Oct 08, 2023 (AFP)
Storms like this, which experts say are being caused by climate change, are becoming increasingly frequent across Central Asia, harming its inhabitants. The imp...
Massive low earth orbit communications satellites could disrupt astronomy
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
Astronomers have raised concerns that without mitigation, groups of large satellites could disrupt our ability to observe the stars from Earth and perform radio...
UN conference adopts plan to reduce chemicals harm
Sep 30, 2023 (AFP)
The Global Framework on Chemicals was adopted by governments, companies, and NGOs at the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management, held in Bonn, G...
US adopts plan to phase out single-use plastics at national parks
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
"Plastic waste is a priority environmental problem," said a statement from the Interior Department, the agency that oversees federally managed lands. Much of th...
European firms scrap toxic ships on Bangladesh beaches: HRW
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
Bangladesh's southeastern Sitakunda beaches have emerged as one of the world's largest shipbreaking yards, fuelling the South Asian country's booming constructi...
Vietnam jails climate activist for tax evasion; Thai court drops charges over murdered activist
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
The court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Hoang Thi Minh Hong to three years in prison for dodging $275,000 in taxes related to her environmental campaign group C...
Vietnam court jails climate activist for tax evasion
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
Hoang Thi Minh Hong was sentenced by a court in Ho Chi Minh City for dodging $275,000 in taxes related to her environmental campaign group CHANGE. The 50-year-o...
US sues eBay for selling products that harm environment
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
The complaint against the online marketplace was filed on behalf of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a federal court in New York. It accused the ...
Philippine smog prompts health warnings, school closures
Sep 22, 2023 (AFP)
A spike in sulphur dioxide emissions from a volcano and a weather phenomenon that traps smog were blamed for the hazardous air enveloping the heavily-populated ...
Vietnam holds think tank chief in latest green detention
Sep 20, 2023 (AFP)
Ngo Thi To Nhien, executive director of the Hanoi-based Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET), was detained on September 15, according to The 88 Proje...
Six of nine planetary boundaries now exceeded
Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)
For over 3 billion years, the interaction between life (represented by the planetary boundary, Biosphere Integrity) and climate have controlled the overall envi...
Philippines activists freed after alleged military abduction
Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)
Jonila Castro, 21, and Jhed Tamano, 22, had been working with coastal communities opposed to reclamation activities in Manila Bay when they disappeared on Septe...
Detained activists accuse Philippine military of abduction
Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)
Jonila Castro, 21, and Jhed Tamano, 22, had been working with coastal communities opposed to reclamation activities in Manila Bay when they disappeared on Septe...
Pope sounds alarm on 'ecological catastrophe' at UN sidelines
Sep 18, 2023 (AFP)
The pontiff also declared the refugee crisis one of the greatest challenges of our time and warned the "Third World War" was already being fought in the spate o...
UK designer rejects 'fast fashion' to protect planet
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
The fashion industry is one of the most polluting, accounting for up to 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, according to World Bank estimates. "Fast fashion...
Sweden to abolish tax on plastic bags in 2024
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
"We're convinced that the Swedish people use plastic bags wisely in their daily lives and that there's no reason they should be extra expensive," Climate Minist...
Bisphenol A detected in almost all Europeans: report
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
"A recent Horizon 2020 research initiative, HBM4EU, measured chemicals in people's bodies in Europe and detected BPA in the urine of 92 percent of adult partici...
Breathless Indonesians irate over pollution crisis
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
Air pollution is hardly a new phenomenon in the megalopolis, but monitors and activists say the effects have been even worse than usual this year. Under growing...
Lead poisoning causes far more death, IQ loss than thought: study
Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)
The study, described as "a wake-up call", also estimated that exposure to the toxic metal causes young children in developing countries to lose an average of ne...
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