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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...

Peru fighting mining pollution with little green algae

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

Mining is the motor that drives Peru's economy but at a huge environmental cost, particularly around Lake Junin in the center-west of the country. "Every two ye...

Oil slick from sunken ship heading for French coast

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

The 10-kilometre (six-mile) by one-kilometre oil sheet was first spotted by a French naval aircraft on Wednesday afternoon, after a fire aboard an Italian cargo...

Suffer the children: how air pollution hurts the youngest

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

Why are children more vulnerable? Children breathe faster than adults and are smaller "so they end up getting a higher dose of air pollution into their lungs re...

Leaders appeal for 'urgent action' on environment

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta were among several heads of state in Nairobi for the fourth UN Environment Assembly -- a ...

'Dangerious materials' in sunken cargo ship off France: authorities

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

"For now the possible pollution risk consists mainly of the 2,200 tons of heavy fuel oil onboard," Jean-Louis Lozier, head of the regional maritime authority, t...

Seoul passes emergency bills to fight air pollution

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

The measures include the mandatory introduction of air purifiers in schools and day care centres, and access to an emergency fund to help tackle the issue. The ...

Air pollution deaths are double earlier estimates: study

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

Between 40 and 80 percent of those excess deaths are caused by heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease underestimated up to now as a dr...

Raw materials behind half of global emissions: UN

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

Using dozens of data sources, the authors of a major new report presented lawmakers and businesses with a stark choice: drastically reform the global economy to...

China says air pollution dropped in 2018

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

Thick smog clouds have plagued China's cities for years and represent the dark side of rapid development that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Th...

Plastic in crosshairs at UN environment forum

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

Thousands of delegates, business leaders and campaigners are in Nairobi for the five-day UN Environment Assembly, the top annual forum on the planet's environme...

Philippines survey shows 'shocking' plastic waste

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

The report, produced by the NGO GAIA, is part of an effort to collect data on plastic consumption as environmentalists push for government action to reduce plas...

Green groups sound environment alarm over Brexit

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

With 80 percent of Britain's current environmental guidelines -- governing everything from air pollution to waste disposal -- coming from Brussels, there are fe...

CORRECTED: Philippines survey shows 'shocking' plastic waste

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

The report, produced by the NGO GAIA, is part of an effort to collect data on plastic consumption as environmentalists push for government action to reduce plas...

Antibiotic resistance is spreading from wastewater treatment plants

Mar 07, 2019 (SPX)

As such, researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have been studying the development of these potentially harmful and ...

India dominates list of world's most polluted cities

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

Air pollution is estimated to contribute to 7 million premature deaths every year and is considered by the United Nations to be the single biggest environmental...

Balloons are top killer of seabirds, study says

Mar 04, 2019 (UPI)

For seabirds, the deadliest piece of trash is a balloon. "Marine debris ingestion is now a globally recognized threat," Lauren Roman, a doctoral student at the ...

Australia steps up Solomons oil spill help as damage worsens

Mar 03, 2019 (AFP)

MV Solomon Trader ran aground on February 5 while loading bauxite at remote Rennell Island, some 240 kilometres (150 miles) south of the Pacific nation's capita...

Crop residue burning is a major contributor to air pollution in South Asia

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

"Black carbon aerosols are damaging to human health and their levels are higher in New Delhi than in many other megacities. During fall and winter, the levels o...

Italy's polluted Po Valley gasps for fresh air

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

"I can really feel when there's smog, I suffer all winter long," 45-year old Milan local Fabio Cigognini told AFP, describing the asthma-like symptoms which pla...