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Clues emerge in 'missing' ocean plastics conundrum

Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)

Now an international team of researchers believe they may be closer to determining where Earth's "missing plastics" end up, using an unprecedented global effort...

Peak break: China to add 'eco' toilet on Mount Everest

Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)

Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending mountaineers pay li...

Zambian villagers cleared to sue copper mine in London

Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)

The villagers filed a claim in London in 2015 against KCM, Zambia's largest mining company and its London-based parent company, for toxic pollution caused by wa...

Hong Kong admits world's largest air purifier choked on debut

Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)

Hong Kong opened a long-awaited $4.6 billion tunnel under a 3.7 kilometre (2.3 mile) long section of the main island in late February with much fanfare. The byp...

Children in South Asia hardest hit by air pollution, says study

Apr 03, 2019 (AFP)

The State of Global Air report, published by the US-based Health Effects Institute and the University of British Columbia, says air pollution is the fifth leadi...

Canned air and water-spraying drones: Smog remedies

Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)

Around 92 percent of the population in the Asia Pacific region are exposed to levels of air pollution that pose a significant risk to their health, according to...

Air pollution hotspots in Europe

Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)

All across the continent, tens of millions of people live and work in areas where average air pollution levels are well above the maximum limits recommended by ...

Asia's pollution exodus: Firms struggle to woo top talent

Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)

Health concerns are putting off those initially attracted by Asia's growing economic opportunities, experts warn, so firms are struggling to recruit -- and reta...

A tale of two Delhis: Deadly air exposes rich-poor divide

Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)

But these eco-eateries, offering cleaner air as well as modern menus to the well heeled are beyond reach for the poor, who have little means of escaping the dea...

Toxic air tears apart families in Mongolia

Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)

This exodus is a stark warning of the future for urban areas in much of Asia, where scenes of citizens in anti-pollution masks against a backdrop of brown skies...

Cell phone 'Tower of Babel' highlights China e-waste problem

Mar 30, 2019 (AFP)

The phones were rigged to a metal frame and synchronised so their screens would flash in various colours. "The inspiration of my tower comes from the Tower of B...

New York state prepares to ban plastic bags

Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)

With Democrats controlling both chambers of the state legislature, lawmakers have reached agreement to include the plastic ban in a broader framework of budgeta...

French Garfield beach phone mystery highlights plastic pollution

Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)

Locals had long suspected a lost shipping container was to blame for the novelty landline phones, modelled on the prickly feline cartoon character, which have p...

Breakthrough in air purification with a catalyst that works at room temperature

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

Importantly, it is effective at room temperature, making it suitable for everyday air purification systems. The team successfully identified the mechanism behin...

'Can't be called water': Brazil marks two months since dam disaster

Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)

Two months after an upstream tailings dam owned by mining giant Vale burst, spewing millions of tons of minerals-laced sludge across the countryside, the 67-yea...

Plastic microparticles threaten unique Galapagos fauna

Mar 22, 2019 (AFP)

Tons of plastic waste wash up on the shores of the Galapagos islands where microparticles end up in the stomachs of species found only in the Pacific archipelag...

Women decision makers are good for the environment, study finds

Mar 22, 2019 (UPI)

Previous studies have showed women tend to support conservation measures and show greater concern for the environment and inequality. However, women are less li...

A tale of two Delhis: Deadly air exposes rich poor divide

Mar 21, 2019 (AFP)

But these eco-eateries, offering cleaner air as well as modern menus to the well heeled are beyond reach for the poor, who have little means of escaping the dea...

Remote Cape with 'world's cleanest air' offers smog respite

Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)

With panoramic views of swaying tussock grass and the vast crystalline expanse of the Southern Ocean, Tasmania's beautiful Cape Grim peninsula is an unlikely re...

Over 2,000 fall ill in Malaysia after toxic waste dumped

Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)

About 200 schools and nurseries have been closed in the affected area in southern Johor state after a lorry dumped the waste last week. People who inhaled the f...