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Air pollution 'greatest risk' to global life expectancy
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) said that as the world races to find a vaccine to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, air pollution would continue to c...
Sri Lanka court blocks president's sand mining concessions
Jul 17, 2020 (AFP)
High quality river sand is widely sought by the construction industry. A two-judge bench ruled that the government had no powers to remove tight controls establ...
Russia launches probe into 'orange' Urals streams
Jul 15, 2020 (AFP)
Drone footage uploaded last week by an Instagram travel blogger showed a bright-orange landscape near the disused copper-sulphide mine close to the village of L...
Road traffic microplastics flooding world's oceans: study
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
As global plastic production continues to surge, the study is the first attempt at quantifying how much plastic from road vehicle tyres and brake pads is disper...
Body of missing environmentalist found in Honduras
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
Marvin Damian Castro, 29, was found dead on Monday a after he went missing, the Committee of Families of the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras NGO reported. His ...
Coronavirus masks, gloves polluting Europe's rivers
Jul 13, 2020 (AFP)
The rubbish adds to plastic pollution already clogging the continent's major waterways, research organisation Tara Ocean Foundation told France Inter radio on S...
Trump's EPA not changing ozone standards set by Obama administration
Jul 13, 2020 (AFP)
"EPA is proposing to retain without changes existing ozone requirements," agency chief Andrew Wheeler said in a telephone briefing with reporters. The standard ...
Engineers use electricity to clean up toxic water
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering developed an electrochemical oxidation process with the aim of cleaning up complex wastewat...
Race to rescue turtles entangled in plastic on Bangladesh beach
Jul 12, 2020 (AFP)
Locals said waves of waste -- mostly plastic bottles, fishing nets and buoys -- floated ashore late Saturday. They spotted turtle carcasses among the sand dunes...
Top French court threatens to fine govt over air pollution
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
The State Council said in a statement the sum is the highest it has ever levied to "oblige the state to implement a decision taken by the administrative judicia...
Brazil prosecutors urge removal of environment minister
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Ricardo Salles oversaw a 25 percent reduction in the Environment Ministry's budget and the freezing of an international fund to combat deforestation, which "dir...
Taking the measure of noise pollution during COVID lockdown
Jul 03, 2020 (AFP)
What impact will confinement have on the urban sound environment, and how could it be measured, he wondered. That same day, Challeat, a geographer at the Univer...
E-waste levels surge 20 percent in 5 years: UN
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
In its annual report on e-waste -- tossed away smartphones, computers, white goods and electronic car parts -- the UN said that materials worth more than $55 bi...
Plastic-tracking yacht adds splash of environmentalism to ocean racing
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
His boat has been specially-fitted with equipment to filter and store an array of plastic samples from remote areas of open water to help scientists map the sco...
Japan begins charging for plastic bags
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
Shops including the ubiquitous convenience stores can decide how much to charge customers for the bags, with a common price being three yen (around three US cen...
Russia mining giant stops waste discharge at Arctic plant
Jun 28, 2020 (AFP)
The incident occurred at the Talnakh enrichment plant near the Arctic city of Norilsk, the company said, when liquids used to process minerals were "discharged ...
Ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati found toxic levels of pollution in two central reservoirs in Tikal, an ancient Maya city that dates back to the th...
COVID-19 makes air pollution a top concern worldwide: report
Jun 17, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers from the consortium of philanthropic groups analysed YouGov polling data from India, Britain, Nigeria, Bulgaria and Poland, the first survey across ...
A World Redrawn: Respect Earth, says Algerian biomedical researcher
Jun 17, 2020 (AFP)
Mechakra, 34, a senior post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Lausanne, is an expert on cellular and molecular biology who also gained expertise in ...
Russia says 'years' needed to clean up Arctic spill
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
The spill of over 21,000 tonnes of fuel took place after a fuel reservoir collapsed last month at a power plant operated by a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk...
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