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Firms blast Bolsonaro bill on mining indigenous lands
Mar 15, 2022 (AFP)
The Brazilian Mining Institute (IBRAM), a group representing the largest mining firms operating in the country, said a Bolsonaro-sponsored bill to allow mining ...
Using soap to remove micropollutants from water
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
Patrick S. Doyle, the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, PhD student Devashish Pratap Gokhale, and undergraduate Ian Chen recently published th...
US veterans sick after burn pit exposure want recognition -- and compensation
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
Fourteen years later, he died of lung cancer, leaving his family to advocate for veterans like him who were exposed to toxic fumes while in uniform. These so-ca...
Upcycling biomass waste into Fe single atom catalysts for pollutant control
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
Utilizing heavy metal contaminants for catalytic degradation of antibiotics is one particularly promising strategy for processing both contaminants conceptional...
Los Angeles suing Monsanto for chemicals in waterways
Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)
The suit -- filed last week against three companies including Bayer, the German agro giant that now owns Monsanto Company -- comes after a raft of legal action ...
Probe accuses Swiss mining firm of hiding Guatemala pollution
Mar 06, 2022 (AFP)
The "Mining Secrets" investigation -- in which 65 journalists from 15 countries participated -- also accused Solway subsidiaries Guatemalan Nickel Company (CGN)...
UN takes 'historic' step toward global treaty on plastic trash
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
Nearly 200 nations at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi unanimously agreed to create an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a legally bin...
UN to take first step towards 'historic' plastic treaty
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), convening in Nairobi, is poised to adopt a resolution creating an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a le...
US Supreme Court to hear high-stakes environmental case
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
The high-stakes case concerns the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, whic...
UN to agree on plan for 'historic' plastics treaty
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
More than 100 nations are expected to agree a blueprint for a treaty on plastic waste during three days of in-person talks in Nairobi and virtual deliberations....
Africa faces tough job not to become world's plastic 'dustbin'
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
That's one of the big questions facing United Nations members next week at a stock-taking on Earth's environmental woes. From Antananarivo to Dakar via Nairobi ...
Plastic treaty would be historic for planet: UNEP chief
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
Inger Andersen said a global plastics treaty being negotiated in Nairobi "holds the potential and the promise of being the biggest multilateral environmental br...
A blight on the beach, old flip flops given makeover in Kenya
Feb 24, 2022 (AFP)
They are the footwear of choice for much of the world but cheap flip flops, like other plastic trash, are polluting oceans and pristine white-sand beaches like ...
Fast-fashion fallout: young people in UK spurred into sewing
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
Like many others in the growing horde of sew-it-yourself enthusiasts, she has grown increasingly disillusioned with the retail clothing industry, viewing it as ...
Sri Lanka completes return of illegal waste to Britain
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
Several Asian countries have in recent years been pushing back against an onslaught of refuse from wealthier nations and have started turning back unwanted ship...
Italy says 'possible spill' from burning ferry
Feb 19, 2022 (AFP)
The Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia was carrying an estimated 800 cubic metres of fuel and 23 tons of "corrosive dangerous goods," the ministry said in a stat...
Plastic, chemical pollution beyond planet's safe limit: study
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
There are an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up in the environment. "The impacts that we're start...
Tunisia to return illegally imported waste to Italy
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
The containers were brought in by a Tunisian company that falsely claimed that the household waste -- barred from import under Tunisia law -- was in fact plasti...
Pollution clean-up aims to create Gaza's first nature reserve
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
That is expected to change after the sullied habitat was declared Gaza's first nature reserve, set for a UN-backed, decade long clean-up effort under the territ...
Sweden mine would endanger indigenous lands: UN expert
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
The United Nations' top experts on the rights of indigenous people and on human rights and the environment cautioned that the open pit mine being planned in the...
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