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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...
On a changing planet, NASA goes Green
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
But NASA doesn't just report the data. It also acts on it. NASA facilities across the United States are each working toward becoming more sustainable workplaces...
Air pollution costs Indian businesses $95 bn a year: study
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
Air pollution shortens lives worldwide by nearly three years on average, and causes millions of premature deaths annually. India is one of the worst affected co...
UK coroner urges tough air pollution targets after girl's death
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
In a legal first, Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that poor air quality from vehicle emissions made a "material contribution" to the death of Ella Ado...
Climate change stirs ghosts of America's toxic past
Apr 20, 2021 (AFP)
Hundreds of America's worst polluted places, like a neighboring pair of chemical plant sites on the Tombigbee, are threatened by storms, rising waters, fires an...
France approves 'ecocide' offence to punish environmental damage
Apr 17, 2021 (AFP)
The ecocide measure was passed by 44 votes to 10 in the lower house of parliament and will, if it becomes law, apply to "the most serious cases of environmental...
China's environmental data: The world's biggest polluter in numbers
Apr 14, 2021 (AFP)
Kerry's trip comes shortly after a testy meeting in Alaska between two top Biden administration officials and their Chinese counterparts, with tensions high on ...
Legislation calls for 'forever chemicals' to be regulated as hazardous substances
Apr 13, 2021 (UPI)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a class of synthetic compounds used in a variety of industrial processes and found in dozens of household item...
Plastic particles proliferate globally, spread by ocean waves and through the air
Apr 12, 2021 (UPI)
In a new study, published Monday in the journal PNAS, scientists looked at the different ways tiny plastic particles, or microplastics, can become airborne and ...
Ghana investigates after dead fish, dolphins wash up on shore
Apr 05, 2021 (AFP)
The dead fish washed up on three different Atlantic Ocean coastal areas of the West African country over the weekend, officials said. "We've counted about 60 de...
'Dirty and ugly' city? Paris slams viral campaign
Apr 05, 2021 (AFP)
A viral hashtag has in recent days sought to rally Parisians' anger on what some residents see as an unacceptably dirty city, a far cry from the romantic image ...
Operation Cleanup on plastic-polluted Lagos beach
Apr 02, 2021 (AFP)
Nigeria's megacity of 20 million people produces between 13,000 and 15,000 tonnes of waste per day, including 2,250 tonnes of plastic, according to a Lagos recy...
Sunscreen is a threat to coral reef health, but size of threat unknown
Mar 31, 2021 (UPI)
Previously, lab experiments have shown oxybenzone, a UV-filtering chemical common in sunscreen, damages the DNA of adult coral and deforms the DNA of coral larv...
In Tunis, flamingos wade past waste in key Africa wetlands
Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)
Once set apart from the city, today half of Tunis' residents live on the banks of the "sebkha", or mudflat, where more than 100,000 birds of around 100 differen...
Swiss police clear months-long protest at LafargeHolcim quarry
Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)
A large contingent of police, many in riot gear, descended on the Mormont site in La Sarraz in the western canton of Vaud early Tuesday, asking the some 200 act...
Pollution forces Nepal schools to close for the first time
Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)
Kathmandu is currently ranked among the most polluted cities in the world, with the air quality index (AQI) readings well above 300, the highest level of concer...
Tunisians demand Italy take back waste
Mar 28, 2021 (AFP)
Tunisian customs officials last summer seized 282 containers that had been shipped from Italy in the guise of plastic scrap for industrial recycling. But the co...
Cleanup of former military sites off Puerto Rico to continue to 2031
Mar 26, 2021 (UPI)
Efforts to remove "munitions and hazardous substances" from Vieques and Culebra islands by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will require a tot...
Italy pressed to remove illegal Tunisia waste shipment
Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)
In the summer of 2020, Tunisian customs officials seized 282 containers that had been shipped from Italy and declared as carrying plastic scrap for industrial r...
Senate bill would reform VA approach to toxic substance exposure treatment
Mar 24, 2021 (UPI)
The Toxic Exposure in the American Military, or TEAM, Act would create sweeping mandates for the Department of Veterans Affairs to track and care for eligible v...
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