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Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)

More than 300 million tonnes of plastics are produced annually, and there are at least five trillion plastic pieces floating in our oceans. Because deep-sea exp...

Nearly 50% of transport pollution deaths linked to diesel: study

Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)

Diesel vehicles were responsible for 47 percent of the deaths, it said, but the figure jumped as high as 66 percent in France, Germany, Italy and India where di...

Pharmaceutical residues in fresh water pose a growing environmental risk

Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)

The research is the first to examine the risks of two particular medicines in global freshwater sources, and is being published in Environmental Research Letter...

CDC to test for carcinogens around eight U.S. military bases

Feb 25, 2019 (UPI)

The CDC will work with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to check for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the agencies announced la...

Innovative nanocoating technology harnesses sunlight to degrade microplastics

Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)

The innovative nanocoating technology was developed by a research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and was further investigated together with...

Vanuatu to give disposable diapers the flush

Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)

Foreign Minister Ralph Regenvanu announced the ban at a conference in Port Vila this week, saying plastic cutlery, polystyrene cups, plastic drinks stirrers and...

Putin says Russia must tackle waste crisis

Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)

"We haven't addressed the so-called waste problems for a century, that is to say, never," Putin said during an annual speech setting out the Kremlin's policy pr...

Oil spilling from ship stuck on Pacific reef: locals

Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)

The MV Solomon Trader ran aground on February 5 while loading bauxite at Rennell Island but heavy seas whipped up by Tropical Cyclone Oma have thwarted salvage ...

In New York, one non-profit looks to combat textile waste

Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)

Enter Fabscrap, a non-profit organization dedicated to recycling and reusing textiles that are unsuitable for donation. Every day, 3,000 pounds (some 1,350 kilo...

Philip Morris eyes tech gadgets for 'smoke-free' market

Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)

While health promotion and Big Tobacco appears incongruous, Philip Morris International (PMI) says the technology in its new "vaping" products could be used to ...

Ten towns hit by river pollution from Brazil dam disaster

Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)

Mineral-laced sludge from the disaster near the town of Brumadinho has contaminated 75 miles (120 kilometers) of the Paraopeba river, impacting the riverside to...

NUS marine scientists find toxic bacteria on microplastics retrieved from tropical waters

Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)

The NUS team also discovered a diversity of bacteria, including useful organisms - such as those that can degrade marine pollutants like hydrocarbons - in the p...

Light pollution affects most of the planet's key wildlife areas

Feb 11, 2019 (UPI)

As the new research reveals, light can reach habitat far from human settlements. When it's reflected and refracted in the atmosphere, light beams can travel lon...

Green water-purification system works without heavy metals or corrosive chemicals

Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)

Their prototype, presented February 7 in the journal Chem, purified pathogen-rich water in 30 min, killing over 99.9999% of bacteria, such as E. coli, meeting C...

A warming world increases air pollution

Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)

The study, published February 4 in Nature Climate Change, shows that the contrast in warming between the continents and sea, called the land-sea warming contras...

Hungary court jails company officials over 2010 toxic spill

Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)

More than 200 others were injured in October 2010 when a holding reservoir of the MAL alumina plant in the western town of Ajka burst open, sending 1.1 million ...

Hospitals filling up in Europe's most polluted capital

Jan 31, 2019 (AFP)

"This is not human any more," says Marina, a mother who has been forced to take two months off work without pay to stay with her 16-month old baby David at the ...

'They always come back': French Guiana battles illegal gold hunters

Jan 31, 2019 (AFP)

But the arrest of the clandestine gold panner, known as "garimpeiros", will barely make a dent in the rampant illegal prospecting deep in this French corner of ...

Toiling in Delhi's toxic smog

Jan 31, 2019 (AFP)

But despite this, with levels of airborne pollutants routinely eclipsing safe limits in winter months, people in the Indian capital still have to go about their...

Brazil dam collapse toll rises to 84, mining firm's output to be hit

Jan 30, 2019 (AFP)

Brazilian authorities are stepping up their probe of Vale, with five engineers involved in the operating licenses and the last inspection of the dam arrested on...