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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 ...
Covid and pollution: intimately linked, compound threat
Nov 23, 2020 (AFP)
As governments ordered temporary confinement measures to battle multiple virus waves, several studies have charted a marked increase in air quality in the US, C...
France to punish 'eco-cide' with prison up to 10 years
Nov 22, 2020 (AFP)
The law was one recommendation from a Citizens' Convention for the Climate, a group created by the government a year ago, bringing together 150 people from the ...
Researchers find microplastics on top of the world at Everest
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even frozen excrement have long littered the well-trodden route to the 8,848-metre (29,...
Bags and balloons: NGO documents plastic pollution choking sea life
Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)
They are some of 1,800 marine mammals and turtles found to have ingested or been entangled by plastic along American coastlines since 2009, according to a repor...
NASA model reveals how much COVID-related pollution levels deviated from the norm
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
Using computer models to generate a COVID-free 2020 for comparison, NASA researchers found that since February, pandemic restrictions have reduced global nitrog...
Study reveals how plastic pollution travels everywhere
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published in Science Advances on November 13, reveals that microplastic particles get stuck when traveling through porous materials such as soil and ...
India's capital awakes to 'severe' smog as revellers defy cracker ban
Nov 15, 2020 (AFP)
India's environmental court had imposed a ban to stop millions of the explosives being lighted up to mark the Hindu Festival of Light, stressing that residents ...
Italy's pollution 'persistently' breaks EU law: court
Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)
"Daily and annual limit values for PM10 particulate matter were very regularly exceeded" in zones highlighted by the European Commission in an infringement proc...
India's clean fuel transition slowed by belief that firewood is better for well-being
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
Women are considered primary family cooks in rural India and those featured in the study feel that both fuels support wellbeing. Understanding these viewpoints ...
India court bans firecrackers in pollution-hit cities citing virus surge
Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)
The National Green Tribunal said the role of pollution in the Covid-19 crisis meant that the ban was needed ahead of Diwali celebrations on Saturday. Traditiona...
Delhi fears the worst amid smog cloud and coronavirus wave
Nov 08, 2020 (AFP)
Kundra is among a growing number of doctors who are worried as the capital's notorious air again hits peak pollution levels while a new pandemic wave is batteri...
Air pollution fell, plastic use soared during Europe lockdowns
Nov 05, 2020 (AFP)
The pandemic is ravaging Europe, which has now become the global region with the most Covid-19 infections, and governments in Britain, France, Italy and elsewhe...
Brown carbon 'tarballs' detected in Himalayan atmosphere
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
Burning biomass or fossil fuels releases light-absorbing, carbonaceous particles that can deposit on snow and ice, possibly hastening the melting of glaciers. P...
Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
However, placing these sensors can prove difficult in large, tall forests, and climbing trees to place them poses its own risks. Now, researchers at Imperial Co...
Sri Lanka returns illegal waste to Britain after court order
Oct 31, 2020 (AFP)
Several Asian countries have in recent years been pushing back against an onslaught of international refuse from wealthier nations and have started turning back...
Locals teed off about new Trump golf course in Scotland
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
Milne has been a major opponent of the development ever since the US president began building the Trump International Golf Links near the village of Balmedie in...
U.S. one of world's top contributors to plastic pollution
Oct 30, 2020 (UPI)
The U.S. exports large amounts of plastic waste. Previous studies have ignored plastic scrap exports, offering the impression that the United States was effecti...
Israelis seek to break record for biggest single-day beach clean-up
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
Organisers hoped to mobilise more than 20,000 volunteers and beat the US record of 16,000 for such a clean-up, Michael Raphael, who was responsible for the init...
War on plastic is distracting from more urgent threats to environment, experts warn
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
In an article published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Water, the 13 experts* say that while plastic waste is ...
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