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'Small' oil leak off Peru coast amid crude spill cleanup
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
The oil escaped Tuesday during work on an underwater pipeline of the La Pampilla refinery owned by Spanish energy giant Repsol, the environment ministry said. T...
Oil spill tars Peruvian seaside towns, leaves fishermen jobless
Jan 23, 2022 (AFP)
Some 6,000 barrels poured into the sea as an oil tanker unloaded a week ago at the La Pampilla refinery located some 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Lima. Acc...
Oil cleanup crews replace bathers on Peru beaches; While floods damage Machu Picchu
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
Almost a million liters (264,000 gallons) of crude spilled into the sea on Saturday when a tanker was hit by waves while offloading at La Pampilla refinery in V...
Polish researchers invent anti-smog sound cannon
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
Installed on top of a metal container, the experimental device consists of a large upside-down cone that makes a loud sound every six seconds. The aim is to cha...
Environmental activist, 14, shot dead in Colombia
Jan 18, 2022 (AFP)
Breiner David Cucuname was one of two people killed while taking part in a rural security patrol Friday by an indigenous guard in the southwestern Cauca departm...
Microplastic pollution linger in rivers for years before entering oceans
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Because rivers are in near-constant motion, researchers previously assumed lightweight microplastics quickly flowed through rivers, rarely interacting with rive...
Pakistan court orders golf course shut in rare ruling against military
Jan 12, 2022 (AFP)
In a rare ruling against the country's powerful armed forces, judge Athar Minallah said Tuesday that the navy had "illegally" established Margalla Greens Golf C...
Understanding air pollution from space
Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)
One part of MIT Professor Arlene Fiore's research program is to investigate the fundamental science in understanding air pollutants - how long they persist and ...
France bans plastic packaging for fruit and veg
Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)
Environmentalists have long campaigned against single-use plastics as pollution worsens globally while President Emmanuel Macron has backed the move defending a...
Rio's low-key New Year generates 50% less trash
Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)
The iconic Brazilian beach city's sanitation service, COMLURB, said it had picked up 320 tonnes of trash from New Year's Eve celebrations, less than half the an...
Philippines lifts ban on new open-pit mines
Dec 29, 2021 (AFP)
The move sees the Philippine government reverse a ban imposed in 2017, when the then-environment minister blamed the sector for widespread ecological damage. Ma...
Ship captain's sentence for Mauritius oil spill commuted
Dec 27, 2021 (AFP)
The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned but Panamanian-flagged vessel, ran aground in July 2020, spilling more than 1,000 tonnes of toxic fuel into pristine waters, c...
Residents revolt against UK sewage dumping
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
But surfer Stu Davies says the waters off Brighton and along the Channel coast are less attractive, describing them as an "open sewer". Human faeces, wipes and ...
No mountain high enough: Study finds plastic in 'clean' air
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
Microplastics are tiny fragments -- measuring less than 5 millimetres -- that come from packaging, clothing, vehicles and other sources and have been detected o...
California sues Walmart over toxic waste dumping
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
The state said it had conducted 58 inspections of trash compactors at Walmart stores between 2015 and 2021 and found items that require special handling when th...
Firm transforms waste as Morocco faces trash 'time bomb'
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
"Nothing's thrown away here: everything is transformed," says Mohamed El Kabous proudly, crumbling a fistful of compost produced by Elephant Vert (EV -- Green E...
Tunisia recyclers struggle to tackle mountains of waste
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
Recycling is almost non-existent in the North African country, which produces 2.6 million tonnes of waste each year. Some 85 percent of that ends up in landfill...
Nepal's biggest stupa turns to biodegradable prayer flags
Dec 18, 2021 (AFP)
Colourful prayer flags -- which have auspicious symbols and prayers inscribed on them -- are an integral part of Buddhist rituals. At the white-domed Boudhanath...
Illegal but essential, migrants recycle Istanbul's waste
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
"I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night," said Issam Raffur, who has spent four of his 20 years in Turkey. "It is very hard and poorly pai...
Turkey and neighbours pledge to clean up Mediterranean
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
From plastic waste to slimy mucilage forming on their coasts, the ring of tourism-dependant Mediterranean countries have battled a steady stream of environmenta...
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