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EU clamps down on food waste, fast fashion
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
Brussels estimates the 27-nation bloc generates around 130 kilogrammes of food waste per person each year -- adding up to 60 million tonnes -- as well as around...
Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN
Sep 05, 2025 (AFP)
The World Meteorological Organization said the quality of the air people breathe was interlinked with climate change, and the two issues needed to be tackled to...
No-sort plastic recycling is near
Sep 02, 2025 (SPX)
In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can drastically reduce - or perhaps even fully bypass - th...
South Australia bans plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
South Australia is the first state in the country to cast a net over the pervasive piscine plastic, known as shoyu-tai. Invented in Japan in the 1950s, they hav...
US environmental agency fires five 'whistleblowers': non-profit
Aug 30, 2025 (AFP)
"The EPA fired five whistleblowers who signed the EPA Declaration of Dissent, and issued a Notice of Removal for an additional four employees," according to a s...
Smog then floods: Pakistani families 'can't catch a break'
Aug 29, 2025 (AFP)
Monsoon rains this week swelled three transboundary rivers that cut through Pakistan's eastern province, the nation's agricultural heartland and home to nearly ...
'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera. These are just some of the creatio...
Dutch divers still haul up debris six years after container spill
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
Volunteer Dutch divers are still fishing debris from the North Sea six years after a disastrous shipping accident. They are trying to clear the shallow Wadden S...
Sounds serious: NYC noise pollution takes a toll
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
Tim Mulligan moved to central Manhattan so he could be closer to work and avoid a daily ordeal on the rattling, screeching subway, just one part of the urban no...
World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal
Aug 15, 2025 (AFP)
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the...
Last chance saloon for global plastic pollution treaty
Aug 14, 2025 (AFP)
Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution have less than 24 hours to salvage a deal on Thursday after the tal...
Multiple states slam new plastic pollution treaty draft
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
With 30 hours left for the 184 countries attending to agree on a way forward, nations one by one took the floor to reject the proposed text put forward by the t...
Plastic pollution plague blights Asia
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
"Plastic is not good for me," she told AFP through a translator during an interview in Geneva, where she came to bear witness on the sidelines of 184-nation tal...
EU ready to do plastic pollution deal 'but not at any cost'
Aug 12, 2025 (AFP)
With little over two days left to strike a global accord in talks at the UN in Geneva, Jessika Roswall said it was "time" to clinch a deal between oil-producing...
Talks for landmark plastic pollution treaty grind on
Aug 11, 2025 (AFP)
Plastic pollution is so commonplace that microplastics have been found on the highest mountain peaks, in the deepest ocean trench and scattered throughout almos...
Over 600 pilgrims hospitalised due to chlorine gas leak in Iraq
Aug 10, 2025 (AFP)
The incident took place overnight on the route between the two Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, located in the centre and south of Iraq respectively. Th...
Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks
Aug 09, 2025 (AFP)
The negotiations, which opened on Tuesday, have four working days left to strike a legally-binding instrument that would tackle the growing problem choking the ...
UN plastic pollution treaty talks floundering
Aug 09, 2025 (AFP)
The negotiations, which opened on Tuesday, have four working days left to strike a legally-binding instrument that would tackle the growing problem choking the ...
A French sailor's personal 'Plastic Odyssey'
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
Abidjan landfill transformed into city parkland
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
Transforming landfill into recreational spaces -- turning trash into landscaped treasure -- has become something of a trend in recent years from New York to New...
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