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Sri Lanka braces for beach pollution as ship burns
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
The X-Press Pearl has been blazing out of control for a week and with heavy winds battering the Singapore-registered vessel, authorities fear a new oil disaster...
Fight to douse Sri Lanka ship fire could take 'days': navy chief
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
Nine Sri Lankan ships and three Indian vessels have been working with international salvage experts to douse the eight-day old inferno on the Singapore-register...
Scientists alarmed by mercury levels found at bottom of Pacific Ocean
May 26, 2021 (UPI)
The record-setting measurements -- detailed Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports -- revealed unprecedented levels of the heavy, silvery element at the bo...
Excess nitrogen has made sargassum the world's largest harmful algal bloom
May 24, 2021 (UPI)
But new research -- published Monday in the journal Nature Communications -- suggests the proliferation of nitrogen over the last three decades has helped trans...
Effects of natural noise pollution on animals similar to noise from humans
May 24, 2021 (UPI)
But what about the sounds of nature? It turns out natural noise, like the rumble of thunder or the roar of a waterfall, can also influence the behavior of nearb...
Pandemic mask mountain sets new recycling challenge
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
Used to curb the spread of Covid-19, masks are exacerbating another pandemic: plastic pollution. Around 129 billion disposable masks are used every month around...
Notre-Dame's square closed over lead pollution risks
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
The fire that ravaged the 13th-century monument two years ago melted some 300 tonnes of lead panelling in the roof, spewing the metal across large swathes of th...
Thousands of Peru's indigenous people exposed to toxic substances
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
It accused Peru's government of "failing" in its health obligations towards the K'ana indigenous people in southeast Espinar province, in the Cusco region that ...
Outcry over Brazil bill relaxing environmental rules
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
The bill, which exempts 13 categories of projects from environmental permit requirements, passed late Wednesday in a 300-122 vote, and now goes to the Senate. I...
Asian cities face perfect storm of environmental hazards
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
Across the globe, more than 400 large cities with a total population of 1.5 billion are at "high" or "extreme" risk due to some mixture of life-shortening pollu...
Seven killed in landslide at Indonesia gold mine
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
Torrential rains triggered a landslide on Monday, inundating the mine with mud mixed with stones and debris in South Solok regency, West Sumatra, said the local...
E-waste recycling matter of national security: report
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Circuit boards, magnets in disk drives and electric vehicles, batteries and fluorescent lamps are among items containing critical raw materials -- including gol...
French court dismisses case over Agent Orange use in Vietnam War
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Tran To Nga, born in 1942 in what was then French Indochina, accused 14 agrochemicals firms of causing grievous harm to her and others by selling Agent Orange t...
Kyrgyz court fines Canadian gold miner 2.5 billion euros
May 08, 2021 (AFP)
Koumtor, part of Canada's Centerra Gold group, was accused of stocking waste for years on two glaciers close to the operation. "Bishkek's Oktiabrski court decid...
Ancient Mesopotamian marshes threatened by Iraqi sewage
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
In a country where the state lacks the capacity to guarantee basic services, 70 percent of Iraq's industrial waste is dumped directly into rivers or the sea, ac...
VA asks for delay in House committee's call for toxic exposure legislation
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
Fifteen bills to help veterans suffering from illnesses believed to be caused by overseas exposure to toxic air or materials await action in Congress. The legis...
Plastic pollution in the deep sea: A geological perspective
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
The authors cite multiple studies, including one in the May issue by Guangfa Zhong and Xiaotong Peng, discussed in a previous GSA press release when it was publ...
Genetically modified grass used clean soil pollutants at military test sites
May 03, 2021 (UPI)
To tackle the problem of water contamination at training ranges, munitions dumps and other military facilities, scientists genetically modified a special grass ...
Polluted Lebanon lake spews out tonnes of dead fish
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
It was not immediately clear what caused the fish kill in Lake Qaraoun on the Litani river, which several local fisherman said was unprecedented in scale. A pre...
Microbes could help remove microplastics from the environment
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
Their method uses biofilms, large mats of microorganisms, to trap microplastics, which can then be collected for processing and recycling. On Wednesday, researc...
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