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South Asia wilts in heat as Delhi rubbish dump burns
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
In New Delhi, a burning rubbish dump choked residents for a third day with temperatures crossing 45 Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of the region -- several d...
Garbage fire chokes Indian capital reeling from heatwave
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
Tuesday night's fire was the fourth to break out in less than a month at a landfill in New Delhi, where a running heatwave has added extra discomfort to the cit...
No 'significant' harm from Galapagos diesel spill: reserve
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
A scuba diving boat sank off Santa Cruz island Saturday with 2,000 gallons (7,600 liters) of diesel and four crew on board. No one was hurt. Measures taken by a...
Scientists to scour African waters to gauge ocean pollution
Apr 23, 2022 (AFP)
The survey is being staged from the 33-year-old Tara research schooner which arrived in South Africa's Cape Town on Friday ahead of the expedition up the West A...
Another rights activist killed in Peru: authorities
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
Ulises Rumiche, an indigenous leader and language teacher, was found dead hours after returning to his Amazon rainforest community from a meeting with Peru's de...
Biden restores environmental safeguards dropped by Trump
Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)
The changes concern the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was enacted by Congress in 1969. Rules about how it was applied were tweaked in 2020 by ...
Cruise ships at center of dispute in Florida's idyllic Key West
Apr 17, 2022 (AFP)
The huge vessels bring thousands of visitors every day to the small city of 26,000 inhabitants, whose quaint, often pastel-colored Victorian homes line leafy, w...
Ship stranded off US delights curious, worries environmentalists
Apr 15, 2022 (AFP)
Some bring their families, while others come with friends, popping a squat at the best vantage point around -- a park in the city of Pasadena, Maryland which of...
Three months after oil spill, Peru fishermen remain without work
Apr 15, 2022 (AFP)
"We never imagined spending such a sad Holy Week because normally people eat fish at this time," Anthony Chumpitaz, president of a local traditional fishermen a...
Some tropical plants have potential to remove toxic heavy metals from the soil
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
Phytoremediation is the use of plants to extract and store contaminants from soil. As a first step to determine if candidate plants had phytoremediation abiliti...
Gas tank graveyard has Mexico City residents up in arms
Apr 11, 2022 (AFP)
Almost every night, Cesar Rivera and his wife leave their apartment because the odor becomes too much, the 37-year-old web programmer told AFP. "The smell is so...
Thai national parks ban single-use plastics
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
Waters off the coast of Thailand are choked with pollution and the coronavirus pandemic has brought a surge in plastic waste as demand for takeaway food grows. ...
Nearly entire global population breathing polluted air: WHO
Apr 04, 2022 (AFP)
Fresh data from the UN health agency showed that every corner of the globe is dealing with air pollution, although the problem is much worse in poorer countries...
Most EU cities breach UN air particle guidelines: report
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
"Critically for health, 96 percent of the urban population was exposed to concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) above the WHO guideline of 5 microgr...
Rio launches clean-up of gorgeous, filthy bay -- again
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
In front of him, emerald hills cascade into Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay; to the right is the Brazilian seaside city's majestic Sugarloaf Mountain; above, the...
'Trash has value': Kenyan inventor turns plastic into bricks
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
"I believe that plastic is one of the misunderstood materials." The 30-year-old Kenyan engineer and inventor would know: her start-up recycles tonnes of plastic...
Plastic pollution cuts power in DR Congo
Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)
The Ruzizi dam is polluted by thousands of bottles, cans and other objects thrown into the lake, which stretches 90 kilometres (56 miles) along the border betwe...
Environmentalist held in Tehran 'on hunger strike': sister
Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori flew home last week, at the same time as the UK government repaid a longstanding debt to Tehran. But Tahbaz, 69, ...
Visible ocean plastics just the tip of the iceberg
Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)
Seeking to simulate the fate of plastics that have made it into our oceans, a new study led by Kyushu University estimates that 25.3 million metric tons of plas...
Yemen war turns nature reserve back into waste dump
Mar 17, 2022 (AFP)
The ticket office has been abandoned at the entrance to the 19-hectare (47-acre) site in Yemen's southern city of Aden, where trees have been cut down and const...
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