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Upside to Rio's low-key New Year party: less trash
Jan 01, 2021 (AFP)
Municipal waste collectors in Brazil's party capital picked up just 39 tonnes of litter from the iconic beach during and after its muted New Year's Eve, down fr...
Novel method reveals small microplastics throughout Japan's subtropical ocean
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
"There's been a considerable amount of research on larger plastic pieces in the ocean," said Christina Ripken, PhD student in the Unit and lead author of the pa...
Plastic is blowing in the wind
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
They are swept up into the atmosphere and carried on the wind to far-flung parts of the ocean, including those that appear to be clear. Analysis reveals that su...
Tunisia cracks down with arrests in Italy hazardous waste scandal
Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)
The 282 containers were seized this summer by Tunisian customs officials in the Mediterranean port city of Sousse. They were declared to be carrying plastic scr...
Northrop Grumman, Navy agree $406M settlement over New York pollution
Dec 22, 2020 (UPI)
Under the deal, the defense contractor will pay a $104 million settlement for environmental damages, and those funds will be used for the 30-year containment pr...
Poor air quality contributed to London girl's death
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
In a legal first, coroner Philip Barlow said poor air quality from vehicle emissions made a "material contribution" to the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in 20...
Climate change fuels new toxic algal blooms along Pacific Coast
Dec 14, 2020 (UPI)
Red tides, masses of phytoplankton and dinoflagellates that tun the ocean a rusty, reddish orange, have long plagued the shores of California, but a previously ...
Decision next week on London girl's 'air pollution' death: coroner
Dec 11, 2020 (AFP)
Assistant coroner for Inner South London Philip Barlow said he would give his ruling on how Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at 1100 GMT on Wednesday. Barlow has hea...
Turkey: Europe's top destination for... trash
Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)
Recycling firms in Turkey defend the rise in imports, arguing the waste plastic is needed for the growing industry which allows the reuse of material that other...
Air pollution: Covid-hit Bulgaria faces compound risk
Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)
The danger is particularly acute given that several times last month the Bulgarian capital Sofia ranked as the world's most polluted city according to the Swiss...
Study confirms dark coating can reduce satellite reflectivity
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
Today's growing demand for space-based services has spawned a wave of satellite constellation projects which operate numerous artificial satellites in orbit. Si...
UK pollution inquest family would have moved if health risks were known
Dec 07, 2020 (AFP)
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lost her daughter Ella in 2013, said "moving would have been the first thing" to do if she had known the danger it posed to the ...
Trash tracking satellites help Indonesia tackle marine waste
Dec 04, 2020 (AFP)
Indonesia allows more waste to enter the ocean than any other country apart from China. The archipelago of nearly 270 million people dumps a whopping 620,000 to...
Toxic tire additive blamed for massive coho salmon die-offs
Dec 03, 2020 (UPI)
In many urban waterways, however, hundreds of salmon die before spawning, never getting the chance to deposit their eggs on the riverbed. "Mortality rates in pr...
Defense spending bill adds coverage of more Agent Orange-linked illnesses
Dec 03, 2020 (UPI)
The Fair Care for Vietnam Veterans Act, introduced by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., establishes a presumption of service connection for veterans suffering from blad...
Viral trash: French Covid clean-up nets mounds of masks
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
Edmund Platt, a British environmental activist, and his French friend Frederic Munsch set off on October 1 to follow the high-speed TGV train line to the French...
Paris 'magnet fishers' snag 51 bikes in canal haul
Dec 01, 2020 (AFP)
"It was incredible, we brought up 20 in the first half hour," Clement Charret told AFP on Tuesday. For the past year and half he has been trawling the depths of...
Inquest to probe role of air pollution in death of British girl
Nov 30, 2020 (AFP)
The hearing, which is due to last 10 days, could set a new legal precedent if it is found poor air quality contributed to the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah. E...
China to end all waste imports on Jan 1
Nov 27, 2020 (AFP)
Since the 1980s the country has imported solid waste, which local companies would clean, crush and transform into raw materials for industrialists. For years it...
Thailand brings NASA air quality data down to Earth
Nov 24, 2020 (SPX)
SERVIR, a Spanish word meaning "to serve," is a joint initiative between NASA and the United States Agency for International Development to boost environmental ...
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