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DDT lingers in Canada lakes 50 years after chemical banned: study
Jun 12, 2019 (AFP)
From 1952 to 1968, planes sprayed more than 6,280 tons of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT on forests in the Atlantic coast province of New Brunswick to c...
DDT still affecting lake ecosystems 50 years after it was banned
Jun 12, 2019 (UPI)
"What was considered yesterday's environmental crisis in the 1950s through 1970s remains today's problem," Josh Kurek, an assistant professor in the department ...
Do you consume a credit card's worth of plastic every week?
Jun 11, 2019 (AFP)
Coming mostly from tap and especially bottled water, nearly invisible bits of polymer were also found in shellfish, beer and salt, scientists and the University...
Pompeo says US won't obstruct curbs on plastic pollution
Jun 11, 2019 (AFP)
When asked at a Senate hearing if the United States was holding back international efforts to make headway on the issue, Pompeo said: "This is important. This i...
Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021
Jun 10, 2019 (AFP)
"I am very pleased to announce that as early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful, single-use plastics from coast to coast," Trudeau said, arguing Canada has a uniq...
Fishermen help overhaul plastic habits off Italy
Jun 07, 2019 (AFP)
The trash instead is being collected, analysed and, where possible, recycled in an initially month-long experiment to try to provide a blueprint for cleaning up...
Indian school demands waste plastic as 'fees'
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
Every week the 110 pupils at the Akshar Forum school outside Dispur in Assam state must bring up to 20 items of plastic gathered from their homes and the local ...
Air pollution kills 100,000 Indian kids every year, study finds
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
India has repeatedly failed to address environmental concerns. Last year a UN report found 14 of the world's 15 most polluted cities were Indian. And despite ca...
Burn or spurn? What to do with Western waste
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
Incinerators or landfills are two quick fixes since Beijing shut the door in January 2018 to some foreign refuse, but specialists say longer term solutions shou...
France to ban destroying unsold goods, targeting Amazon, luxury brands
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that a ban on destroying non-food goods -- such as clothes, electrical items, hygiene products and cosmetics -- would come ...
Seven wanted for 'envionmental crimes': Interpol
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
The rare appeal by the international police organisation based in Lyon, France, comes ahead of World Environment Day on Wednesday. "We've highlighted seven crim...
In pursuit of 'zero waste', Senegalese tackle trash
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
The shore, which separates an industrial zone in the capital Dakar from the Atlantic Ocean, is a shocking sight. It is littered with rotting fish and plastic ru...
India rubbish mountain to rise higher than Taj Mahal
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
Hawks and other birds of prey hover around the towering Ghazipur landfill on the eastern fringe of New Delhi, stray cows, dogs and rats wander at will over the ...
Drowning in waste, Russians fume over lack of recycling
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
The rubbish towers above the Timokhovo dump outside Moscow, one of the biggest in Europe. Authorities plan to build an incinerator to burn some of the trash, bu...
Philippines ships dumped trash back to Canada
May 31, 2019 (AFP)
After a long campaign to urge Canada to take back the rotting waste, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Ottawa last week and ordered the refuse ...
Malaysia to ship back hundreds of tonnes of plastic waste
May 28, 2019 (AFP)
Around 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), with much of it ending up in landfill or polluti...
Mother, daughter sue France over ill health from air pollution
May 28, 2019 (AFP)
The mother and the daughter are asking for 160,000 euros ($179,000) in damages from the state at the administrative court of Montreuil in the east of Paris. The...
Plastic polluter: Brazil recycles 'almost nothing'
May 24, 2019 (AFP)
"Almost nothing," said the 40-year-old director of CoopFuturo, a sorting center for recyclable material in Rio de Janeiro, where plastic makes up 60 percent of ...
Life goes on under cloud of smog in Mexico City
May 18, 2019 (AFP)
But that has not stopped Oscar Chong from going out for his daily workout, despite four days of warnings from the authorities to avoid strenuous physical activi...
Residents split on future of Romania's trash heap 'time-bomb'
May 18, 2019 (AFP)
Looming on the hills near Romania's fifth-biggest city Cluj-Napoca, the trash heap rises to five storeys high in places, emitting a noxious odour and oozing sub...
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