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Health warnings as Bangkok chokes on pollution
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
The Thai capital, home to an estimated 11 million people and one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, has been blanketed for days by an unpleasant ...
Senegalese recyclers seek solutions in fight against plastic
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
Fly-tipping is a scourge and landfills like the sprawling Mbeubeuss site near the capital Dakar are overstretched, with several thousand tonnes of detritus dump...
Beyond Pandora: Oscar films highlight man's destruction of our own planet
Mar 06, 2023 (AFP)
From the smoggy skies of New Delhi to the melting sea ice of Siberia, "All That Breathes" and "Haulout" each use complex, local stories to shine a global spotli...
Illegal miners block Colombian roads to protest crackdown
Mar 06, 2023 (AFP)
Protests broke out last Thursday in the region of Bajo Cauca, the epicenter of illegal gold mining financed by armed groups fighting each other in Colombia desp...
Activist Erin Brockovich slams response to toxic US train wreck
Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced on the same day that it would ask the railroad to conduct tests in the area for highly toxic pollutants known a...
Tiny Welsh island wins world stargazing fame
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
Planets rise and shooting stars streak overhead, while the Northern Lights send flares of green and red across the sea. The rugged outcrop has become Europe's f...
Sunken Philippine tanker leaks industrial fuel oil into sea
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
The Princess Empress was travelling from Bataan province, near the capital Manila, to the central province of Iloilo on Tuesday when it had engine trouble and s...
Toilet paper adding to 'forever chemicals' in wastewater: study
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
"Forever chemicals", or PFAS, are found in cosmetics, non-stick cookware and waterproof clothing. They have been linked to several types of cancers, cardiovascu...
Far-reaching UN treaty a must to cut global plastic use: experts
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
Even if measures thought to have the greatest potential for reducing plastic consumption are implemented, they would still fail to prevent a substantial rise in...
Global wildlife contaminated by 'forever chemicals'
Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)
Over 300 wildlife species showed traces of the nearly indestructible synthetic chemicals, according to a report from the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) PFA...
'All this rubble': Pollution fears over Turkey quake waste
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
Two weeks after an earthquake devastated southern Turkey, which on Monday was once again rattled by a quake, experts fear millions of tons of debris will end up...
US railroad company ordered to pay for cleanup of toxic derailment
Feb 21, 2023 (AFP)
"Let me be clear: Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess they created and for the trauma they've inflicted on this community," Michael Regan, the he...
Kenya's Ruto urges accountability for world polluters
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
Poorer nations, especially those in Africa, have been hit disproportionately hard by the fallout from climate change, which has aggravated droughts and flooding...
Study finds watching TV is good for the planet
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
Some 40% of plant species are under threat of extinction. Plants that are not directly useful to humans are particularly vulnerable. People often do not recogni...
Donated clothing worsening Kenya's plastic pollution: report
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
Every year, tonnes of donated clothing is sent to developing countries, but an estimated 30 percent of it ends up in landfills -- or flooding local markets wher...
Sinkholes sow fear in former Polish mining town
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
Five craters have emerged this year alone in pockmarked Trzebinia. Five months ago, a huge hole swallowed up tombs at the cemetery. "No one knows where the next...
Sri Lanka bans single-use plastics to save elephants
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
Cabinet spokesman and media minister Bandula Gunawardana said the manufacture or sale of plastic cutlery, cocktail shakers and artificial flowers will be prohib...
Long-term air pollution exposure raises depression risk: studies
Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)
A study published on Friday in JAMA Network Open found that long-term exposure to elevated levels of air pollution increases the risk of late-onset depression a...
Harmful pollution boosting superbug 'silent pandemic'
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
Superbugs -- strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics -- are estimated to have killed 1.27 million people in 2019, and the World Health Organization says an...
Gunmen kidnap Iraqi environmental activist: family
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
Jassim al-Assadi, 65, head of the environmental group Nature Iraq, has appeared regularly in local and foreign media to raise awareness of the threats facing th...
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