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Paris downplays Notre-Dame lead poisoning fears
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
"All the tests we've carried out in a radius of 500 metres (yards) around Notre-Dame are negative, meaning there is no danger," deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire t...
'I like plastic': Pakistan's toxic 'love affair' with waste
Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)
Plastic bags are a large part of the problem -- the nation uses some 55 billion of them each year, according to the Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association. ...
Curbing air pollution won't speed up global warming
Aug 02, 2019 (UPI)
New research, however, revealed little evidence of a strong inverse relationship between air quality and warming. Until now, the logic went as follows: pollutio...
Malawi's top court outlaws single-use plastic
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
In a judgement handed down on Wednesday and seen by AFP on Thursday, a seven-judge panel of the Supreme Court of Appeal threw out a challenge by plastic manufac...
Magnetic springs help break down microplastics in the ocean
Jul 31, 2019 (UPI)
"Microplastics adsorb organic and metal contaminants as they travel through water and release these hazardous substances into aquatic organisms when eaten, caus...
Plastic junk spawns desert island disaster in Pacific
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
Henderson Island is an uninhabited coral atoll that lies almost exactly halfway between New Zealand and Peru, with 5,500 kilometres (3,400 miles) of ocean in ei...
Indonesia returns containers of waste to France, Hong Kong
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
The containers were loaded with a combination of garbage, plastic waste and hazardous materials in violation of import rules, according to customs officials on ...
Asian countries turning back wealthy world's waste
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
It comes after China last year stopped accepting the world's used plastic, having previously been the biggest market for recyclables. After Indonesia on Tuesday...
Earth's 2019 resources 'budget' spent by July 29: report
Jul 28, 2019 (AFP)
The so-called Earth Overshoot Day has moved up by two months over the past 20 years and this year's date is the earliest ever, the study by the Global Footprint...
Fishing for plastic on Amsterdam's eco-friendly canal cruises
Jul 26, 2019 (AFP)
But it's not fish they're hunting on their cruise along one of the Dutch capital's most famous tourist attractions -- it's plastic. With eco-tourism booming aro...
Sri Lanka says illegal UK waste offloaded to India, Dubai
Jul 26, 2019 (AFP)
Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera told parliament the importer of the waste had reshipped about 180 tonnes of raw garbage to India and Dubai in 2017 and 2018...
Chile's mining waste poses silent threat to humans on multiple fronts
Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)
Mines are the pillar of Chile's economy, but their byproducts -- which accumulate in ravines, mountain areas, river beds and reservoirs, and which are often use...
How to climate-proof Paris' architectural jewels
Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)
As climate change makes extremes such as the record-breaking temperature peaks roasting northern Europe this week more likely, the City of Light is locked in a ...
Insects replace pesticides in Spain's 'Sea of Plastic'
Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)
Zamora, like most of his colleagues, no longer sprays his crops with pesticides, instead hanging small bags of mites on the plants, leaving them to attack paras...
Sri Lanka orders return of smuggled British garbage
Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)
Customs officials said the racket dating back to 2017 was uncovered after the Colombo port complained last week that an importer had abandoned 111 containers wh...
'Bigger problems' for Trump than plastic straws
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
The president made his position clear to reporters at the White House when, between questions about Iran and China, one asked him about growing efforts to ban p...
Danish study finds 95 percent of dead petrels ingested plastic
Jul 18, 2019 (AFP)
"More than 95 percent of corpses of northern petrels found on Danish beaches contain plastic," according to study author John Pedersen. The petrel, a seabird ma...
Shanghai leads battle against China's rising mountain of trash
Jul 14, 2019 (AFP)
On July 1, Shanghai launched China's most ambitious garbage separation and recycling programme ever, as the country confronts a rising tide of trash created by ...
Eternally stinky city? Rome garbage crisis sparks health fears
Jul 13, 2019 (AFP)
Crowds of summer tourists are forced to navigate overflowing bins in the stifling heat, as the pungent perfume of neglected garbage draws scavenging animals and...
Tourist rush at Australia's Uluru before climb ban
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
Clambering up the giant red monolith, also known as Ayers Rock, will be prohibited from October -- in line with the wishes of the traditional Aboriginal owners ...
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