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Beijing to exit 200 most polluted cities list
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing "is on track" to reduce PM2.5 -- tiny particles that are the deadliest air pollutants -- by nearly 20 percent this year compared to 2018, Swiss air puri...
Malaysia to make it rain as Indonesian smog pollutes air
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
Smog regularly blankets parts of Southeast Asia during the dry season when burning is used to clear Indonesian land for palm oil, paper plantations and other cr...
Germany plans to ban single-use plastic shopping bags next year
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
Supermarkets and other retailers will be barred from offering lightweight plastic carrier bags at their checkouts, including those now marketed as being biodegr...
Lonely battle: Senegal restaurateur fights the plastic tide
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
Italy reinstates legal protection for steel plant: ArcelorMittal
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Italian parliament had in June revoked a period of legal immunity initially given to the company to allow it to bring the plant up to environmental standard...
Indonesia sends back hundreds of shipping containers full of waste
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
About 250 containers seized across the archipelago in recent months have already been returned and authorities are inspecting more than 1,000 others, a customs ...
Amazon to phase out single-use plastic in India
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
India generates around 5.6 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, according to government figures, with New Delhi ramping up its "clean India" mission to era...
Congo president flies to environment talks on huge jet: sources
Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)
Talks were focused on the fate of the Republic of Congo's basin forest, commonly referred to as the "second green lung" of the planet after the Amazon. The airc...
Air pollution under clear skies reduces sunlight reaching the Earth's surface
Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)
The study highlights findings that have several implications, the most consequential of which is the negative effect of air pollution on renewable energy harves...
Hunger for concrete eats away at mountains
Sep 01, 2019 (AFP)
To feed the concrete demands of hotels, holiday homes and road-building, quarries are eating away at the mountains where his goats graze. "I will have to leave ...
Air India to stop using single-use plastic on flights
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech in mid-August said eradicating single-use plastics was a key goal and called on people to take the "...
More child arsenic cases found in former French mining town
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
Officials now say that 46 of 143 children aged 11 or younger who were tested in the area have been found with 10 or more microgrammes of arsenic per gramme of c...
NASA Data Strengthens U.S. Air Quality Warnings
Aug 28, 2019 (SPX)
Lead investigator of the study, Rajesh Kumar of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, incorporated, every three hours, satellite da...
Foreign trash 'like treasure' in Indonesia's plastics village
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
Governments around the world are grappling with how to tackle the scourge of single-use plastic, but for the people of Bangun trash equals cash. Around two-thir...
Tel Aviv beaches fall foul in Israel's passion for plastic
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
Working in heat and humidity with large rakes, they scoop plastic cups, cigarette ends, empty sunscreen tubes and soiled babies' nappies. Also present, but impo...
Mussels, 'super-filters' that can help beat water pollution
Aug 18, 2019 (AFP)
The mussel is the hoover of the sea, taking in phytoplankton for nourishment along with microplastics, pesticides and other pollutants -- which makes it an exce...
Microplastics in Arctic snow point to widespread air contamination
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
Every year, several million tonnes of plastic litter course through rivers and out to the oceans, where they are gradually broken down into smaller fragments th...
Fossil fuels? Plastic? Trump says more is better
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
Where most environmental scientists and most US allies fear that overuse of fossil fuels is driving the planet into crisis, the US president spies only opportun...
'Toxic' Italian steel plant clean-up is a towering task
Aug 11, 2019 (AFP)
Beyond the factory lie the sea and sandy beaches, though only hardy souls dare to swim or eat mussels farmed here. The site in southern Italy's Puglia region, f...
Lebanese kick up stink over smell fix for garbage woes
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
"They really need to find a solution to these smells," said the 66-year-old Beirut resident, in a spotless white t-shirt and hair net. Four years after a garbag...
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