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New material captures and converts toxic air pollutant into industrial chemical
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
The material then requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial use. The mechanism for the record-breaking gas uptake ...
Princes Charles urges Solomons to embrace 'bio-economy'
Nov 25, 2019 (AFP)
Environmental groups warn the Solomons' lush forests are being stripped by logging, with fears the devastation will intensify after Honiara switched its diploma...
Lebanon anti-graft protesters march for nature too
Nov 24, 2019 (AFP)
Unprecedented protests about corruption in Lebanon since October 17 have given new life to activism against the controversial structure planned for a lush valle...
The man who saved Lanzarote from overdevelopment
Nov 16, 2019 (AFP)
Part of the volcanic Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of Africa, the arid island welcomes some thr...
Delhi suffocates under toxic smog but millions go without masks
Nov 16, 2019 (AFP)
Indian media is packed with warnings about the risk of premature death, lung cancer and particular danger to children from PM2.5 -- tiny particles that get into...
Medicines pose global environmental risk, experts warn
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
There are growing fears that the unchecked use of antibiotics in both medicine and agriculture will have adverse effects on the environment and on human health....
Faroe Islands to 'close' for a weekend to protect environment
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
In practice, the self-governing Danish islands will keep hotels open and international flights running, but popular tourist sites will be temporarily closed on ...
Fury in Delhi as smog engulfs children's race, hits golf event
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
Delhi and other cities in northern India have again been blanketed by haze that hits each winter due to build-up of vehicle fumes, industrial emissions and smok...
Air pollution shuts schools in Tehran; As Delhi hits emergency levels
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
Governor Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpey said kindergartens, preschools and primary schools would be shut in the city and the counties of Gharchak, Pishva and Vara...
McDonald's to speed up shift away from plastic in Europe
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
The US burger behemoth announced Thursday the introduction of new packaging in all its restaurants in Europe by the end of 2020 for the McFlurry, an ice cream d...
Prey-size plastics are invading larval fish nurseries
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
The study is also the first to show that larval coral reef fish and pelagic species consume plastic, as early as just a few days after they're born. While scien...
Simulated sunlight reveals how 98% of plastics at sea go missing each year
Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)
It appears that sunlight-driven photoreactions could be an important sink of buoyant plastics at sea. Sunlight also may have a role in reducing plastics to size...
Mothers-to-be fear for their unborn in smog-choked Delhi
Nov 08, 2019 (AFP)
At a recent pre-natal class in the Indian capital, Gokavi and other expectant mothers shared their feelings of helplessness and anger at having to breathe poiso...
ArcelorMittal wants to cut 5,000 Italy jobs: prime minister
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
The world's biggest steelmaker on Monday retreated from its plan to buy the steel producer, blaming a decision by Rome to not grant it immunity from prosecution...
Despite itchy eyes, tourists flock to Taj Mahal
Nov 06, 2019 (AFP)
Every year around eight million people -- mostly domestic tourists -- visit the monument, built by a 17th-century Mughal emperor for his wife. On Tuesday, with ...
Taj Mahal gets air purifier as Indian capital chokes
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
As smog levels exceeded those of Beijing by more than three times, authorities also parked a van with an air purifier near the Taj Mahal -- the iconic 17th-cent...
Venice gondoliers dive into murky canals for nocturnal clean-up
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
"It's another world down there", Lorenzo Brunello told AFPTV late Sunday as he prepared to plunge into the murky waters in the first nighttime trawl for garbage...
Steel giant ArcelorMittal calls off purchase of Italy's Ilva
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Taranto plant in the south of Italy is mired in controversy because experts believe that some 7,500 people have died in the surrounding area as a result of ...
Indian capital Delhi gasps under choking smog
Nov 03, 2019 (AFP)
Every winter, the megacity of 20 million people is blanketed by a poisonous smog of car fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from stubble burning at farms in n...
Merkel urges Delhi to go green amid smog emergency
Nov 02, 2019 (AFP)
Merkel became a rare foreign leader to speak out on India's smog crisis after being exposed to the capital's air on Friday, when authorities said the pollution ...
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