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Confiscation crusaders try to save Philippine paradise
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
Former para-military leader Efren "Tata" Balladares has been leading the other flip flop-wearing environmental crusaders up and down the steep mountains of Pala...
Doctors say no to sport in Delhi as cricketers choke in smog
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Medics on Monday urged cricket's governing body to revise its rulebook after a Test match between India and Sri Lanka went ahead in the capital despite players ...
Is underground transit worse for your health?
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
Constantinos Sioutas, the Fred Champion Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and PhD students Christopher Lovett, Farimah Shirmohammadi and Mohamma...
UN assembly starts drafting plan for 'pollution-free planet'
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
Urging rapid and united action from governments, businesses and individual consumers, envoys underlined that nine million people are now killed by pollution eve...
Cricketers flounder in New Delhi's hazardous smog
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
A day after protests by Sri Lankan players temporarily halted the third Test at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, the third day's play went ahead in even worse smog...
UN makes global bid to end 'rampant' pollution
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
Ministers under the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) will finalise a global declaration vowing to combat "rampant pollution" as a growing threat to human life, ec...
Serious health risks from Lebanon waste burning: report
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
The New York-based watchdog said the crisis, which escalated in 2015 when waste management largely collapsed across Lebanon, was a particular threat for childre...
99 percent of ocean microplastics could be identified with dye
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
New research, led by Gabriel Erni-Cassola and Dr. Joseph A. Christie-Oleza from Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has established a pioneering way to detect th...
Vietnam jails activist for 7 years over toxic leak protests
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
Space for free expression is shrinking in the Communist country, with at least 15 activists and dissidents having been arrested and several others jailed so far...
Clean-up dives, recycling: Lebanese respond to garbage crisis
Nov 26, 2017 (AFP)
The group is conducting a clean-up below the waves, one of many initiatives emerging from Lebanon's civil society and private sector in response to the governme...
'Trash islands' off Central America indicate ocean pollution problem
Nov 24, 2017 (AFP)
These "trash islands" have been captured in images by photographer Caroline Power, who lives on Honduran island of Roatan. The problem shows that trash "continu...
Global light pollution increasing at a rate of two percent per year
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of scientists on Wednesday reported the results of a landmark study of global light pollution and the rise of light-emitting diode (LED) o...
Energy-saving LEDs boost light pollution worldwide
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
The study in the journal Science Advances is based on satellite data showing that the Earth's night is getting brighter, and artificially lit outdoor surfaces g...
Oil droplets from frying pan can cause indoor air pollution
Nov 20, 2017 (UPI)
New research suggests some of the droplets are small enough to become suspended in the air, potentially contributing to indoor air pollution. These tiny drops o...
'My eyes are burning': Delhi half marathon goes ahead despite smog
Nov 19, 2017 (AFP)
More than 30,000 people, some sporting pollution masks, braved a hazy morning to run through the Indian capital despite almost two weeks of hazardous smog that ...
Sulfur dioxide emissions plunge across China as India's soars
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. It is produced predominantly when coal is burned to generate el...
Delhi half-marathon to go ahead despite smog, court rules
Nov 17, 2017 (AFP)
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had asked the Delhi High Court to postpone the event after a spike in pollution levels that it described as a public health...
Interactive map shows air quality in real time across Europe
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
Dubbed the "European Air Quality Index" and launched by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Commission, the map gathers hourly data from more...
Pakistan indifferent as smog kills more people than militancy
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
The polluted air that has lingered in Islamabad in recent days was finally dispelled by rain this week, bringing the surrounding Margalla Hills into view once a...
Small cities choke as India remains callous to rising bad air
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
India's smog crisis has centred on the capital but pollution is as bad or worse beyond its borders, with millions in smaller cities like Moradabad barely aware ...
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