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France launches nationwide probe into baby arm birth defects
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
Francois Bourdillon, head of the Public Health France agency, confirmed for the first time that a national investigation was "underway" and the results would be...
Newly discovered toxic pollutant found in homes, environment
Oct 30, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers at Indiana University discovered high levels of the chemical, tri(2,4-di-t-butylphenyl) phosphate, or TDTBPP, in homes, an electronic waste recyclin...
Air pollution kills 600,000 children each year: WHO
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
Data from the UN health body shows that every day, 93 percent of children under the age of 15 -- a full 1.8 billion youngsters, including 630 million under the ...
Report: European air pollution remains at deadly levels
Oct 29, 2018 (UPI)
Air pollution numbers -- particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ground level ozone emissions -- remain too high, exceeding limits set by the European Union an...
EU air quality slowly improving but still deadly: report
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
Although pollution levels dropped slightly in 2015, they remain far higher than standards set by both the European Union and the World Health Organization, the ...
Philippines' spruced up Boracay re-opens with new rules
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
The white sand idyll was closed to visitors in April after President Rodrigo Duterte called it a "cesspool" tainted by raw sewage flowing from hotels and restau...
Philippines opens cleaner, stricter Boracay to tourists
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte shuttered the tiny white-sand island in April, declaring it a "cesspool" where businesses flushed raw sewage into the once pristine tu...
Dutch join G7-led push to rid oceans of plastics
Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)
Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy, along with the European Union, signed the Ocean Plastics Charter at a leaders' summit in Canada's Charlevoix region ...
Philippines to re-open 'cesspool' Boracay after clean up
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the island shuttered in April for a major effort to fortify weak infrastructure and crack down on the rampant overd...
EU parliament approves ban on single-use plastics
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
The European Commission, the 28-nation EU's executive arm, proposed banning such items that it said account for 70 percent of the waste in the oceans and beache...
Uber plans pollution levy on London fares
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
A levy of 15 pence (17 euro cents) per mile will be introduced, resulting in an average additional cost of 45 pence per ride, Uber said in a statement. "The May...
Indian court eases firecracker ban even as pollution soars
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
The Supreme Court, which last year banned firecrackers for the Diwali festival, rejected a new call for a ban in the capital amid growing concern over pollution...
Swim team braves pollution to dive into Gaza waters
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
Aged between 11 and 16, they make up a rare swimming club in the Palestinian enclave, and perhaps its only mixed-sex one. Coach Amjad Tantish talks through a wa...
Delhi holds breath as burning farms herald pollution season
Oct 21, 2018 (AFP)
Every November, air pollution in northern India reaches levels unimaginable in most parts of the world, forcing schools shut and filling hospital wards with whe...
Study: Air pollution deaths in U.S. dropped by half between 1990, 2010
Oct 19, 2018 (UPI)
The new study, published Friday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, is only the latest to show pollution protections have had a positive impact on...
The impact of microplastics on the environment unclear, study suggests
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
The research team say that future research into the impact of microplastics needs to be much more targeted, after the study revealed a large "mismatch" in the t...
Plastic piling up in Japan after China waste ban: survey
Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)
The environment ministry said about a quarter of major regional and municipal governments surveyed reported seeing accumulating plastic waste, sometimes going b...
Delhi braces for pollution with emergency plan
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
Under the new strategy, restrictions on construction sites and traffic will be imposed depending on the air quality in the megacity of some 20 million people. W...
Cambodia's 'Rubbish Man' schools children -- for trash
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
In return, needy kids like Bunthon, a former street beggar, can take computer, mathematics and language classes -- and learn the value of reducing waste in a no...
Increase in plastics waste reaching remote South Atlantic islands
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists investigating plastics in seas surrounding the remote British Overseas Territories discovered they are invading these unique biologically-rich region...
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