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Dozens treated in Chile for suspected pollutant exposure
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
Local authorities declared an environmental emergency in the area, suspending classes and banning physical activity, after the Quintero Air Quality Station repo...
US to ban single-use plastics on public lands by 2032
Jun 08, 2022 (AFP)
This will include the sale and distribution of plastic bags and bottles as well as food wrappers, beverage cups and other tableware, according to an order by th...
Global plastic use and waste on track to triple by 2060
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Annual production of fossil-fuel-based plastics are set to top 1.2 billion tonnes by 2060 and waste to exceed one billion tonnes, according to the Organisation ...
Ecuadoran frogs Rocket and Harlequin taking on mining industry
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
She holds in the palm of her hand one of two frog species at the center of a legal battle against Ecuador's mining industry. Teran, 37, is a specialist in the f...
Iraqi activists suffering in 'environment of fear': UN
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
In a report documenting 26 incidents since May 2021 that it said were "aimed at suppressing dissent and criticism carried out by 'unidentified armed elements'",...
Stockholm summit marks 50 years of UN environment work
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), born out of the original 1972 Stockholm conference, said the anniversary meeting in the Swedish capital takes place "amid t...
Big tobacco's environmental impact is 'devastating': WHO
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
The World Health Organization accused the industry of causing widespread deforestation, diverting badly needed land and water in poor countries away from food p...
Jordan's plastic trash turned into art with a message
May 29, 2022 (AFP)
One of her best-known murals graces the side of a building in the capital Amman, a giant work made from more than 2,000 plastic bottles, almost 1,000 shopping b...
Toxic smoke and suspicious plastic plant fires in Turkey
May 29, 2022 (AFP)
Experts and activists suspect it's not a coincidence, believing that some entrepreneurs want to get rid of unwanted rubbish sometimes imported from Europe. In K...
UN says rich countries putting children around the world at risk
May 24, 2022 (AFP)
UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center studied 39 countries from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) accor...
Trawling Iraq's threatened marshes to collect plastic waste
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
"For 6,000 or 7,000 years the inhabitants have protected the marshes," said Raad al-Assadi, director of Chibayish Organisation for Ecotourism, who this week beg...
What a waste: US campaigner wears his trash for a month
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
The campaigner is wandering the streets of Los Angeles and surrounding cities in a specially designed suit that holds all of the junk he has produced over the l...
Pollution behind 1 in 6 global deaths in 2019: study
May 17, 2022 (AFP)
Human-created waste in the air, water and soil rarely kills people immediately, but causes instead heart disease, cancer, respiratory problems, diarrhoea and ot...
Philippine province lifts open-pit mining ban, paves way for Tampakan project: official
May 16, 2022 (AFP)
The Tampakan project on Mindanao island has been described by its developer Sagittarius Mines as "one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits in the wor...
How microplastics in the air are polluting the most remote places on earth
May 11, 2022 (SPX)
A new study published this week shows how wind transports these particles great distances, and much faster than water can. In the atmosphere, these microscopic ...
Satellite eyes pinpoint waste from space to reduce ocean pollution
May 10, 2022 (SPX)
Global Plastic Watch (globalplasticwatch.org) is a tool which combines earth observation with artificial intelligence to create the first-ever near-real-time hi...
Mexico shuts US-owned quarry on environmental grounds
May 06, 2022 (AFP)
After an inspection visit to a subsidiary of US group Vulcan Materials, it was decided to temporarily close the site near Playa del Carmen, the environment and ...
Costa Rica president-elect says will not ratify environment treaty
May 04, 2022 (AFP)
The treaty was the first in the world to contain specific measures to protect the human rights of environmental defenders and Costa Rica had been the driving fo...
Bacteria can stick to plastic in the deep sea to travel around the ocean
May 01, 2022 (SPX)
The team showed for the first time that these deep-sea, plastic loving bacteria make up only 1% of the total bacterial community. Reporting their findings in th...
Choking and sweating around Delhi's burning hill of trash
Apr 29, 2022 (AFP)
"The fire was a few hundred yards from my home. It was so intense that I felt it was literally touching our skin," Pramod, 35, told AFP, at a lane not far from ...
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