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Troubled waters: China-fuelled cruise boom sparks environment fears
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
Gone are the days when cruising was the preserve of retirees, who would while away the hours lounging in deckchairs, playing bingo or taking part in formal dinn...
Light pollution puts Nemo's offspring at risk
Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)
"Clownfish, and likely other coral reef fish species living in areas exposed to light pollution, might not be able to produce viable offspring," Emily Fobert of...
Ecotax championed, contested and still marginal in EU
Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)
Here is some background on the difficult history of so-called ecotaxes: - Leaders and laggards - In 2011 the European Commission envisaged that by "2020 a major...
Indonesia to send 210 tonnes of waste back to Australia
Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)
The eight containers seized in Surabaya city should have contained only waste paper, but authorities also found hazardous material and household trash including...
Cruise ship in Venice near-miss just weeks after dock incident
Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)
The 12-deck Costa Deliziosa, which is nearly 300 metres (1,000 feet) long and carries more than 3,800 passengers and crew, was being towed out in stormy conditi...
Jakarta residents sue Indonesia government over air pollution
Jul 04, 2019 (AFP)
Jakarta has been shrouded in hazardous smog for much of the past month, with air quality readings recording high concentrations of harmful microscopic particles...
US waste driving global garbage glut: study
Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)
Data on the combined solid, plastic, food and hazardous waste of 194 countries showed that the world now produces an average of 2.1 billion tonnes of trash each...
Indonesia to return 49 containers of waste to Europe, US
Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)
The 49 containers were loaded with a combination of garbage, plastic waste and hazardous materials in violation of import rules, according to customs officials ...
New Zealand bans single-use plastic bags
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
Plastic pollution has become a growing global concern, with a million birds and more than 100,000 marine mammals injured or killed every year by becoming entang...
Thousands march in Madrid to save anti-pollution plan
Jun 29, 2019 (AFP)
"Madrid Central," as it is called, was one of the measures that persuaded the European Commission not to take Spain to court last year over its bad air pollutio...
Canada takes garbage back from Philippines, ending long dispute
Jun 29, 2019 (AFP)
A cargo vessel loaded with about 69 containers of rubbish docked in a port on the outskirts of Vancouver, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. The trash w...
Scores ill, schools closed in Malaysia due to toxic fumes
Jun 25, 2019 (AFP)
It was the second serious incident involving poisonous gas in Pasir Gudang district, in southern Johor state, in three months after thousands of people became s...
Among world's worst polluters, ASEAN vows to tackle ocean waste
Jun 22, 2019 (AFP)
Just five Asian countries -- China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand -- dump more than half of the eight million tonnes of plastic waste that en...
Protesters urge ASEAN leaders to ban trash imports
Jun 20, 2019 (AFP)
The protest comes ahead of a weekend meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with many countries struggling to deal with the fl...
Searching for the source of microplastics in European rivers
Jun 19, 2019 (AFP)
Armed with a pair of tweezers, Jean-Francois Ghiglione examines the samples fished from London's Thames river by scientists in search of the source of microplas...
'Sand mafias' threaten Morocco's coastline
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
Here, like elsewhere across the North African tourist magnet, sand has been stolen to help feed an industry that is growing at full tilt. A report last month by...
Getting to zero: the Japan town trying to recycle all its waste
Jun 16, 2019 (AFP)
And that's not all: there isn't even trash collection. The 1,500 residents of the town in western Japan have to transport their waste themselves to a local faci...
G20 agrees marine plastic pollution deal
Jun 16, 2019 (AFP)
Under the agreement, G20 member countries committed to reducing plastic waste but gave little detail on how that would be done. They added that the steps would ...
Air Force diverted $66M from projects for chemical cleanup costs
Jun 14, 2019 (UPI)
The class of chemicals, called perfluorooctanic acid and commonly referred to as PFAS, have been widely used by the military in firefighting foam. Sen. Tom Carp...
German railways to stop using glyphosate on tracks
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
"We want to set up a research project to find effective ways to operate our 33,000 kilometres (20,500 miles) of network without glyphosate to be environmentally...
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