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Mexico pollution alert extended as smog stagnates
May 17, 2019 (AFP)
Dozens of wildfires have combined with hot, dry weather to cause a sharp rise in air pollution across a swathe of central Mexico -- especially in the Mexico Cit...
Mexico City extends pollution alert, cancels school
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
The capital, whose sprawling metropolitan area is home to more than 20 million people, has been blanketed in a thick layer of smog since Saturday. Authorities s...
Remote island beach plastics point to greater waste problem
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
A team of experts travelled to the Cocos Islands, a group of 27 small atolls 2,100 kilometres (1,300 miles) west of Australia and found an estimated 414 million...
Environmental activists turn up heat on polluting businesses
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
But campaigners are also diversifying their tactics, sometimes becoming active shareholders in corporations such as carmakers, chemicals companies and oil major...
Mexico City declares pollution alert, postpones football semi-final
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
A series of wildfires on the city's outskirts have combined with stagnant weather conditions to cloak the metropolitan area of more than 20 million people in a ...
Mount Blanc glacier reveals traces of Roman-era pollution
May 13, 2019 (UPI)
The ice cores revealed two peaks in atmospheric pollution from heavy metals. Scientists isolated increases in the presence of lead and antimony related to minin...
Delhi hit by rare summer air pollution alert
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
The world's most polluted capital city is blanketed in a toxic smog of car fumes, agricultural smoke and factory waste most winters, but it is less severe in su...
180 nations agree UN deal to regulate export of plastic waste
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
The 1,400 representatives, meeting in Geneva reached the agreement after 12 days' discussion on what Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the UN Environment Prog...
Minister promises clean Delhi air in three years
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
The World Health Organization ranks New Delhi as the world's most polluted capital, with the 20 million residents breathing air way above danger limits for most...
Thai bay made famous in 'The Beach' to be shut until 2021
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
Maya Bay, ringed by cliffs on Ko Phi Phi Ley island and surrounded by azure waters, was made famous when it featured in the 2000 film starring Leonardo Dicaprio...
The only way is down: subterranean survival warning
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
"We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for more space," Han Admiraal, a civil engineer with over two decades of experience i...
Mozambique community shattered by trash deluge
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
But on Sunday night, the vast rubbish dump that towers over their informal neighbourhood gave way, sending mounds of trash crashing into the valley, demolishing...
Carbios plastic bottle recycling picks up backers
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
Nestle Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe join a consortium that already includes L'Oreal in a four-year partnership that aims to bring the te...
China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
For many years, China received the bulk of scrap plastic from around the world, processing much of it into a higher quality material that could be used by manuf...
Philippines' Duterte in war of words over Canada garbage row
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
The Philippines has urged Canada to take back scores of garbage containers shipped to the country in 2013 and 2014, alleging they contain toxic waste. But Ottaw...
USAID launches latest clean-up for Vietnam War-era Agent Orange site
Apr 20, 2019 (AFP)
Located outside Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa airbase -- the latest site scheduled for rehabilitation after Danang airbase's clean-up last year -- was one of the m...
Notre-Dame paintings removed amid lead pollution fears
Apr 19, 2019 (AFP)
Officials from the culture ministry were allowed into the 850-year-old landmark to begin retrieving the artworks after fire service officials declared the scorc...
Seals, caviar and oil: Caspian Sea faces pollution threat
Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)
Not anymore. Of the more than one million seals which inhabited the shores and islands of the Caspian a century ago fewer than 10 percent remain, and the specie...
Airborne plastic particles blanket remote mountains: study
Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)
Over a five-month period in 2017-2018, an average of 365 tiny bits of plastic settled every day on each square metre of an uninhabited, high-altitude area in th...
Renting flat-pack furniture? Ikea's push to go green
Apr 14, 2019 (AFP)
Sceptics see the Swedish giant's initiative as a mere marketing ploy, while supporters see a genuine seachange. Either way, Ikea says it plans to become a circu...
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