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Nations call for strong plastics treaty as difficult talks loom
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
The talks collapsed in late 2024 with nations unable to agree on how to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste from entering the environment each year. Ahead ...
Indonesia revokes most mining permits in dive hotspot after outcry
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
The cluster of islands and shoals in Southwest Papua Province sits in the Coral Triangle and is thought to be one of the world's most pristine reefs, with its c...
French Senate adopts bill to regulate fast fashion
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
The bill is targeted at Chinese-founded e-commerce giant Shein, which has a reputation for selling lower quality clothes at a very low price. Easy to order and ...
Money, mining and marine parks: The big issues at UN ocean summit
Jun 08, 2025 (AFP)
There is pressure on the UN Ocean Conference starting Monday in Nice to show that countries can unite and deliver more than just talk for the world's ailing and...
China lead mine plan weighs heavily on Myanmar tribe
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
Demand for the heavy metal is forecast to rise, driven by its use in the batteries needed for the global energy transition. But its extraction can pollute the e...
Greenpeace slams Coca-Cola for producing billions of plastic bottles
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
Activists erected a giant bottle cap outside the company's Johannesburg office emblazoned with the slogan "Cap it Coke" in a demonstration held on World Environ...
Indonesia allowing nickel industry abuses to go unchecked: report
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
Indonesia is both the world's largest nickel producer, and home to the biggest-known reserves, and a 2020 export ban has spurred a domestic industrial boom. Ope...
Feds remove 18 regulations that hurt energy production and mining
Jun 03, 2025 (UPI)
The rescinded regulations include those regarding prospecting for mineral resources, mining claims, oil shale placer claims, and geothermal leases and drilling,...
France's upper house debates fast-fashion bill
Jun 02, 2025 (AFP)
The lower house of parliament adopted a version of the so-called "fast fashion" bill in March last year, but a commission in the right-leaning Senate has sought...
Panama launches maintenance work at contested mine
May 31, 2025 (AFP)
Central America's biggest copper mine, the Canadian-owned Cobre Panama pit, closed in 2023 following weeks of crippling protests over its environmental impact. ...
France says it has common ground with China on environment
May 30, 2025 (AFP)
Her trip came ahead of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), which is due to start in Nice on June 9, and the COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November. After the Un...
India races to contain oil spill after container ship sinks
May 26, 2025 (AFP)
The Liberian-flagged MSC ELSA 3, listed as a 184-metre (603-foot) freight ship, went down off the coast of Kerala on Sunday, with all 24 crew members rescued. I...
Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants
May 21, 2025 (AFP)
The predator bolted but soon slumped into the snowdrifts, its broad frame motionless beneath the Arctic sky. The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering re...
The US towns that took on 'forever chemical' giants -- and won
May 19, 2025 (AFP)
Tainting food, water and wildlife, these toxic substances have been linked to ailments ranging from birth defects to rare cancers. Yet if it weren't for the eff...
Copenhagen to offer giveaways to eco-friendly tourists
May 12, 2025 (AFP)
The CopenPay initiative, which was tested on a smaller scale last year, "is about raising travellers' awareness about travelling more responsibly," Soren Tegen ...
Sweden's 'Queen of Trash' risks prison in toxic waste crime trial
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
The once-acclaimed waste management company Think Pink is accused of dumping or burying some 200,000 tonnes of waste from the Stockholm area at 21 sites from 20...
Greenpeace Denmark launches fake tourism ad to highlight pollution
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
"Through the campaign, which is available on social networks as well as on billboards in Brussels and Warsaw, we are inviting Europeans to discover the wonders ...
Hong Kong loosens rules for harbour reclamation
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
Land reclamation was central to the Chinese city's economic growth for decades but shifting public opinion since the 1990s led to stringent legal rules that req...
Mennonite communities raise hackles in Peruvian Amazon
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
In Masisea, a remote settlement near Peru's border with Brazil accessible only by boat along a tributary of the Amazon or over dirt paths, members of the auster...
Athens vows tougher rules on e-scooter 'nuisance'
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
"We are determined to set rules," Haris Doukas said in a statement after meeting with executives of the four companies offering e-scooter rentals in the city ce...
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