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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 ...
Japan retailers to charge for plastic bags from 2020
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
The move brings Japan in line with many other countries that have already adopted the environmentally friendly measure, but it will only come into effect in Jul...
Environment now a focus for young Chinese, says sci-fi author Chen Qiufan
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
His acclaimed dystopian novel "Waste Tide", which depicted workers picking through toxic electronic detritus and children playing with discarded bionic limbs, s...
India's firecracker hub hit by anti-pollution drive
Oct 25, 2019 (AFP)
In addition to gifts, elaborate feasts and family get-togethers, the Hindu mega-festival of lights, which falls this weekend, has in recent years also meant set...
Papua New Guinea shutters polluting Chinese plant
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
The Mineral Resources Authority said it had ordered owners of the Ramu Nickel refinery to "shut down its processing operations" as of Monday October 21. The fac...
Boom or bust: Hanoi pollution crises expose growth risks
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Long tapped as an investors' paradise thanks to its low-cost labour and pro-business policies, rapidly industrialising Vietnam is one of Asia's fastest growing ...
Big firm products top worst plastic litter list: report
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Coca-Cola, Nestle and PepsiCo were named by Break Free from Plastics, a global coalition of individuals and environmental organisations, who warned the companie...
Day after protests, Lebanese don gloves and clean up
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
"I haven't been participating in the demonstrations because my family doesn't want me to," she says, as she collects rubbish in the centre of the capital. "So I...
Greece fights for its beaches and gets tough on plastic pollution
Oct 16, 2019 (AFP)
"39 tonnes of plastic waste end up in the sea in Greece (every day) and a lot of it turns into fish food," Environment Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said at a pres...
Delhi pollution 'action plan' comes into force
Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)
Every winter, New Delhi is enveloped in a noxious blanket of smog of car fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from stubble burning at farms outside the megacit...
Sunlight degrades polystyrene much faster than expected
Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)
But now researchers have challenged this common assumption with the finding that sunlight can break down polystyrene over a much shorter time scale, from decade...
Project launched to study artificial lighting at night from space
Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)
Experts from the University of Exeter are leading a pioneering new project, called Lost at Night, which studies the effects of artificial light pollution at nig...
Astronauts and citizens team up against light pollution
Oct 10, 2019 (ESA)
Astronaut pictures are the highest-resolution, colour images of night available from orbit. "The International Space Station is the best observation point human...
Pollution app back in Vietnam after online abuse 'campaign'
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
The Swiss-based company AirVisual said this week it was the target of a "coordinated campaign" of abuse after publishing data showing several days of "unhealthy...
Minister says oil on Brazil beaches 'probably' Venezuelan
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
The oil began appearing in early September and has been seen along a 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) stretch of the northeastern Atlantic coast -- with around 130 ...
Investment vs environment: Armenia villagers protest gold mine plans
Oct 07, 2019 (AFP)
Protesters say planned gold mining in the south will not only pollute drinking water but also damage some of the top tourist spots in the small Caucasus mountai...
Unilever to halve use of new plastic
Oct 07, 2019 (AFP)
The firm, which owns brands including Dove soap, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and Marmite, would cut annual use from the current 700,000 tonnes of a year to no mor...
Pollution app pulled in Vietnam after 'coordinated campaign' of abuse
Oct 07, 2019 (AFP)
AirVisual's Facebook page was also taken down in Vietnam after a deluge of messages from users accusing the site of publishing unreliable data in a bid to sell ...
Divers fight Senegal's plastic tide
Oct 05, 2019 (AFP)
That is the solution adopted by Oceanium, an association of amateur divers in the West African state of Senegal. In a few hours last month, divers removed hundr...
As Libya's war drags on, Tripoli drowns in waste
Oct 03, 2019 (AFP)
"Each weekend I collect the rubbish from my four brothers at the farm where we live and I look for somewhere to dump it. I have no choice but to leave it here o...
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