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Rio Tinto hit with human rights claims over Bougainville mine
Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)
The complaint, lodged with Australian authorities by the Melbourne-based Human Rights Law Centre on behalf of more than 150 Bougainvilleans, heaps more pressure...
Sri Lanka returns containers of illegal waste to Britain
Sep 27, 2020 (AFP)
The 21 containers -- holding up to 260 tonnes of rubbish -- first arrived by ship in the capital Colombo's main port between September 2017 and March 2018, cust...
Senegalese town fights losing battle against trash
Sep 25, 2020 (AFP)
The beach bordering the fishing settlement, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of the capital Dakar, is now permanently choked with plastic waste and rotten f...
Mauritius takes stock of oil spill two months later
Sep 24, 2020 (AFP)
Two months later, Mauritius is still taking stock of the damage, after its rich fishing grounds and sensitive marine habitats were befouled with oil. - How bad ...
Chile court shuts gold mine over environmental fears
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
The court dismissed a legal challenge from the company and confirmed a 2018 environmental authority ruling, ordering the "total and definitive closure" of the m...
Study: Cleanup, management won't save ecosystems from plastic pollution
Sep 17, 2020 (UPI)
"We simply make too much plastic waste to handle with current waste management infrastructure, and eventually we are going to run out of land to put landfills,"...
Mercury concentrations in Yukon River fish could surpass EPA criterion by 2050
Sep 17, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers predict that by 2200, the mercury emitted into both the atmosphere and water annually by thawing permafrost will compare with current global ant...
Brown Danube: How Belgrade's sewers taint Europe's famous river
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
It's not a secret operation, but rather a business nobody likes to mention in the Serbian capital -- the only one in Europe to spew all of its unfiltered wastew...
Smog blankets US West Coast as deadly wildfires rage
Sep 13, 2020 (AFP)
US officials braced for the possibility of further fatalities as wide stretches of land in California, Oregon and Washington remained cut off by flames fueled b...
1000s protest in Mauritius over oil spill; operator to pay millions
Sep 12, 2020 (AFP)
A sea of colourful demonstrators waving flags and chanting slogans descended on Mahebourg on the southeast coast, where a cargo ship ran aground in July and lea...
For small island nations, marine plastic cleanup is prohibitively expensive
Sep 10, 2020 (UPI)
"The Indian Ocean is fringed with countries that have poor waste management infrastructure," lead researcher April Burt told UPI in an email. "Other studies hav...
Sick of city din? Try 'noise-cancelling headphones' for your flat
Sep 10, 2020 (AFP)
Scientists believe they have found a way for city dwellers to let in fresh air while reducing the urban cacophony -- and it is a bit like popping massive, noise...
In EU, 1 in 8 deaths linked to pollution: report
Sep 07, 2020 (AFP)
Europeans are constantly exposed to environmental risks like air pollution, noise and chemicals, and the Covid-19 pandemic provides an example of the links betw...
Bolsonaro slams 'cancer' of environmental NGOs
Sep 04, 2020 (AFP)
"You know that NGOs don't have a voice with me. I am firm with these people, but I can't kill this cancer that most NGOs are," Bolsonaro said during his regular...
Mauritian citizen becomes powerful voice for oil spill anger
Sep 02, 2020 (AFP)
But in recent weeks, the maritime security expert has surged into a new role: the voice of a nation's anger after an oil spill soiled the coast of his native Ma...
2 dead as Mauritius oil spill clean-up boats collide
Sep 01, 2020 (AFP)
A search was under way for the missing crew after the accident late Monday as the boats returned from where a tanker crashed into a reef in late July, leaking m...
Toxic liquid leaks into Paris river from cement plant
Sep 01, 2020 (AFP)
Lafarge acknowledged the spillage but insisted it had been the result of sabotage, rather than an intentional act by the company. The contaminated liquid is com...
Rich north owes 'ecological debt' to south: pope
Aug 31, 2020 (AFP)
In a short video address, the head of the Catholic Church warned that the planet's resources were being exploited "as if it was an orange." "Let us pray that th...
Landmark protest in Mauritius over giant oil spill
Aug 29, 2020 (AFP)
The Japanese bulk carrier MV Wakashio crashed into a reef off southeastern Mauritius last month spewing more than 1,000 tonnes of oil into waters that are home ...
Criminal recycling scams 'profit from plastic waste surge'
Aug 27, 2020 (AFP)
Plastic consumption has exploded in the last decade, with some 360 million metric tons of waste generated just in 2018, mainly by wealthier nations, Interpol sa...
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