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Trump announces sweeping changes to key environmental law
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1970, all major infrastructure projects must be subject to environmental...
Scientists genetically engineer pollution-free poplar tree
Jan 07, 2020 (UPI)
Like palms and eucalyptus trees, poplars emit isoprene. Their leaves produce the highly volatile chemical in response to stress, like rising temperatures and dr...
Microplastics disrupt local food chains, study finds
Jan 07, 2020 (UPI)
Microplastics are also being found in abundance in coastal ecosystems, and new research suggests the pollution's presence can have disruptive effects on coastal...
Bangladesh court orders government to ban single-use plastics
Jan 06, 2020 (AFP)
Pollution from single-use plastics is a major problem in Bangladesh, where nearly 170 million people live in a tiny sliver of low-lying land criss-crossed by hu...
Going meme: Thai shoppers get creative after plastic bag ban
Jan 03, 2020 (AFP)
The restriction, introduced at the start of the new year by several major mall operators and the ubiquitous 7-Eleven convenience stores, was a victory for envir...
Thai retailers ban single-use plastic bags
Jan 02, 2020 (AFP)
The move, taken on Wednesday by several major mall operators and the ubiquitous 7/11 convenience stores, will see customers instead paying a small fee for a reu...
With purifiers and lawsuits, Pakistanis fight back against smog
Dec 30, 2019 (AFP)
"Some days, I had so many calls that I couldn't answer," says Zaidi during a recent interview with AFP in his workshop. Tired of choking on putrid air, Zaidi sp...
Cities are expanding outward, not upward -- an unsustainable pattern
Dec 20, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies identified the predominant growth patterns -- detailed this week in the journal Environmenta...
India leads world in pollution linked deaths: study
Dec 18, 2019 (AFP)
The report by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) found pollution to be the largest environmental cause of premature death on the planet, causing...
Smog forces schools shut in Iran
Dec 15, 2019 (AFP)
The pollution level in the capital was "unhealthy for sensitive groups" and officials warned the young, elderly and people with respiratory illnesses to stay in...
Spain river littered with dead fish after waste plant fire
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
"Some of the water used to extinguish the fire has reached the Besos river, greatly affecting its fauna," the Catalan Water Agency which manages water resources...
Bangladesh tears down brick kilns to fight toxic smog
Dec 07, 2019 (AFP)
Every autumn, following the monsoon rains, Dhaka's brick kilns -- which use coal and wood to fire bricks from clay -- start up again, adding to the emissions pu...
Household dust hosts toxic chemicals from LCD screens
Dec 07, 2019 (AFP)
"These chemicals are semi-liquid and can get into the environment at any time during manufacturing and recycling, and they are vaporized during burning," lead r...
For some corals, meals can come with a side of microplastics
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
Synthetic clothing, containers, bottles, plastic bags and cosmetics all degrade and release microplastics into the environment. Corals and other marine organism...
In Spain, how nutrients poisoned one of Europe's largest saltwater lagoons
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
A fisherman all his life, this 50-year-old father-of-three grew up along the shores of the so-called Small Sea in the southeastern coastal region of Murcia, cas...
Aegean volunteers battle to turn plastic waste tide
Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)
"It was a tyre," offers her patrol mate Efthymis, coming up with a discarded beer bottle. "My treat!" he jibes. The Ionian island of Zakynthos is one of Greece'...
Smog in Iran shuts schools, universities
Nov 30, 2019 (AFP)
The young and elderly and people with respiratory illnesses were warned to stay indoors and sporting activities were suspended for the start of the working week...
Slovakia bans single-use plastics from 2021
Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)
The new law will make it illegal to sell plastic plates, cups, cutlery, drink stirrers, straws and cotton buds, among similar items. 72 lawmakers voted in favou...
Bangladesh to shut brick kilns as air quality soars to world's worst
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
Residents in several other cities in South Asia, including India's capital New Delhi and Lahore in Pakistan, have also been breathing toxic smog in recent weeks...
Britain to take back plastic waste from Malaysia
Nov 25, 2019 (AFP)
Southeast Asia has been flooded with plastic from more developed nations such as the US and Australia since last year when China -- which boasted a massive recy...
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