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India pollution watchdog fines Delhi over toxic smog
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
The National Green Tribunal penalised the capital administration for its lack of oversight after it emerged some polluting industries were still burning harmful...
Madrid launches drastic traffic limits to ease pollution
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
The "Madrid Central" system covers the Spanish capital's historical centre, and aims to "reduce pollution, noise and improve public spaces," according to the le...
Honduran court convicts seven in murder of environmental activist
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
The killers could receive up to 30 years in prison according to the verdict delivered after a six-week trial in the country's capital Tegucigalpa. The murder of...
Indonesian island clean-up nets 40 tons of rubbish daily
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
Indonesian authorities have deployed an army of staff and a fleet of boats to help clear rubbish-infested shorelines and surrounding waters, underscoring the So...
WSU researcher creates first model of how plastic waste moves in the environment
Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)
The work, published in the November print issue of the journal Advances in Water Resources, could someday help communities better understand and reduce plastics...
Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, too
Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published in Nature Communications this week, researchers documented extensive diversity in the microbial communities living in the extremely hot, de...
A water treatment breakthrough, inspired by a sea creature
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
By removing a broad range of contaminants in a single step, the discovery promises to significantly improve on the centuries-old use of coagulants for water tre...
Mere sunlight can be used to eradicate pollutants in water
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
The chemists at MLU rely on electrons moving freely in water, so-called hydrated electrons, to degrade dissolved pollutants. "These electrons are extremely reac...
Company 'concealed' gravity of China chemical spill
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
The spill in Fujian province happened in the early hours of November 4 when a tube transferring the chemicals from a wharf to a tanker broke, spilling 69.1 tonn...
Campaigners dig in against Ghana bauxite mining plans
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
Nearby is another sign for the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, whose steep slopes and cloud-topped peaks rise from the fields of cassava and trees of ripening banan...
Environmentalists target Amazon France in 'Black Friday' protest
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
Around 40 people converged on the company's offices in the northern Paris suburb of Clichy to dump washing machines, old computer screens, tangles of power cord...
China expands ban on waste imports
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
The regulatory action -- which expands the prohibition to 32 categories of solid waste from the 24 banned last year -- will go into effect from December 31, acc...
Delhi 'lungs' turn sickly brown in days
Nov 13, 2018 (AFP)
Delhi, the world's most polluted major city, has been covered in a toxic grey haze since the onset of winter last month, with pollution levels several times hig...
Delhi homeless to be given masks as smog worsens: official
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
Each winter the capital of 20 million chokes through haze so extreme that levels of airborne pollutants eclipse safe limits by more than 30 times. The poor and ...
Delhi bans trucks as megacity chokes
Nov 09, 2018 (AFP)
With levels of air pollution classed as "hazardous", the restriction on the nearly 40,000 medium and heavy lorries that enter Delhi every day was imposed late T...
Delhi's toxic air spikes after Diwali firework frenzy
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
More than 300 people were arrested in Delhi, the world's most polluted major city, where the Supreme Court had restricted public fireworks to two hours in the e...
Delhi suffers toxic smog hangover after Diwali firework frenzy
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
Major monuments including the India Gate and Red Fort were hidden by a toxic haze. Commuters donned masks as visibility on major roads was reduced to barely 50 ...
Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors
Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)
Smog is blamed for the deaths of more than one million Indians every year and Delhi -- which on Monday had emergency pollution levels more than 35 times the Wor...
Indian firework sellers fume over festival 'eco-cracker' ban
Nov 02, 2018 (AFP)
"There is no such thing as a green firecracker in India," says an exasperated Tyagi, in an empty alleyway usually buzzing with customers buying rockets and bang...
EU countries back single-use plastics ban
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
The approval by the 28 member states follows an overwhelming vote in the European Parliament last week to ban single-use plastic items such as straws, cutlery, ...
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