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Fashion industry failing to meet green targets: report
Mar 22, 2021 (AFP)
The inaugural Sustainability Index by the Business of Fashion magazine, the first to offer direct comparisons between the industry's top firms, found they were ...
New technique detects minute particles of plastics in snow, rain and even soil
Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers used a new technique that they have developed to analyze snow samples collected in April 2019 in Montreal for both micro- and nano-sized particl...
Big Tech backs plan to tackle e-waste crisis
Mar 18, 2021 (AFP)
The project comes as humanity's insatiable appetite for smartphones, household appliances and electronic car parts combined with the short lifespans of many tec...
Air pollution returning to pre-COVID levels
Mar 17, 2021 (ESA)
On 23 January 2020, the world saw the first coronavirus lockdown come into force in Wuhan, China in an effort to stop the spread of the illness. This lockdown s...
Lethal pollution high in 2020 despite lockdowns: report
Mar 16, 2021 (AFP)
The partial or complete shutdown of transport and industry for months at a time in 2020 reduced average levels of so-called PM2.5 pollution across the world, in...
Mauritius safely tows grounded ship to shore: minister
Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)
The Lu Rong Yuan Yu struck a reef on Sunday off the northwest coast, rekindling memories of a similar accident last year involving a stranded bulker that leaked...
Russian mining giant pays $2bn fine for Arctic spill
Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)
Some 20,000 tonnes of diesel leaked into lakes and rivers near the northern city of Norilsk in May last year when a fuel reservoir collapsed at a power plant ow...
Flamingos poisoned by illegal lead pellets in Greek lagoon
Mar 06, 2021 (AFP)
The grizzled environmentalist puts on his waterproof waders and boots and steps into knee-deep water. When he returns moments later, he is holding a dead pink f...
71kg of waste found in stray Indian cow's stomach
Mar 04, 2021 (AFP)
The case has highlighted the country's twin problems of pollution and stray cattle. An estimated five million cows roam India's cities, with many gorging on the...
EU court raps Britain for air pollution
Mar 04, 2021 (AFP)
The case covered the years 2010 to 2017 and stemmed from a European Commission complaint lodged in 2018, when Britain was still an EU member, thus giving the co...
Lebanese clear tar pollution from turtle beach
Feb 27, 2021 (AFP)
A storm more than a week ago threw tonnes of the sticky, black substance onto the beaches of the Jewish state, apparently after leaking from a ship. Within days...
NASA studies impact of reduced African grassland fires on air quality improvements
Feb 26, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers from NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York City analyzed satellite observations of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ...
'Eco-friendly' foam may pose environmental, human health risks
Feb 23, 2021 (UPI)
After the once-popular brominated flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane, or HBCD, was banned for being too toxic and persistent, PolyFR became the flame retard...
Israel scrambles to clean beaches after massive tar pollution
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
Powerful winds and unusually high waves pummelled Israel's entire Mediterranean coastline over Tuesday and Wednesday, with tonnes of tar staining 160 kilometres...
Global survey finds nature sanitizes millions of tons of human waste a year
Feb 19, 2021 (UPI)
When researchers in India and Britain analyzed sanitation services in 48 cities around the world, they found nature was responsible for cleaning 41.7 million to...
Air pollution caused 160,000 deaths in big cities last year: NGO
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
The worst-affected was New Delhi, the most polluted capital on Earth, where around 54,000 deaths are estimated to have occurred due to hazardous PM2.5 airborne ...
Environmental degradation poses triple threat to humans: UN
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
A scientific assessment by the UN Environment Programme found that galloping economic growth has come at a devastating cost to the planet and urged governments,...
Russian magnate breaks wealth record despite pollution fine
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
Potanin's fortune has crossed the $30 billion threshold, Forbes reported, in a new record for a Russian business owner. Shares in the company, also known as Nor...
Singapore swap shops offer alternative to fast fashion
Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)
But this year she will wear second-hand items exchanged for her old clothes at a store catering to people concerned about the impact of fast fashion on the envi...
New York City subway has dirtier air than neighboring transit systems
Feb 10, 2021 (UPI)
But the air inside New York City's transit system, the world's most famous subway, is the most heavily polluted. For the study, published Wednesday in the journ...
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