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Cyprus struggles to manage waste as tourist numbers soar
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
With more visitors heading to Cyprus than ever, the Mediterranean island's waste disposal system is under pressure, despite efforts to cut landfill use and enco...
New London pollution tax comes into force
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan claimed that with the rollout of the new weekday "toxicity charge" -- dubbed the "T-charge" -- London had "the world's toughest emission...
Delhi chokes on toxic haze despite Diwali fireworks ban
Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
India's Supreme Court had banned the sale of firecrackers ahead of the Hindu festival of lights to prevent a repeat of last year's post-Diwali air pollution cri...
Smog defies China's Communist Party congress
Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
Despite all-out efforts to give the Chinese Communist Party blue skies for its twice-a-decade congress, Beijing's notorious smog has cloaked the mega-city in it...
Delhi braces for pollution 'airpocalypse' as smog looms
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
Each year, as winter descends on the Indian capital, a perfect storm of seasonal crop stubble burning, dense cloud cover and smoke generated by millions of fire...
Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
Almost all the deaths, 92 percent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, it said, with air pollution the main culprit, felling 6.5 million people. Almos...
New Delhi shuts power plant in fight against Diwali smog
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
New Delhi experiences suffocating smog every year around Diwali, when farmers in north India burn the stubble left behind after the harvest and revellers let of...
Scientists trace path of inland plastic pollution from rivers to oceanw/ll
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
In setting out to answer those questions, a team of researchers decided to identify 10 rivers around the world where plastic waste mismanagement is most severe....
Air pollution kills over 500,000 Europeans a year: report
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
Although data from the Copenhagen-based European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals some encouraging signs, in large part the result of new technologies, air poll...
Polluted lake is poor Nicaraguans' lifeline
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
"The lake is so polluted. They throw all sorts of crap into it," said the 56-year-old. "Containers, old buckets, all sorts of bags -- all the junk they throw aw...
Olympics: Tokyo 2020 water venue polluted
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
The admission came during a visit by International Olympic Committee officials to assess Tokyo's readiness to host the Games, with just a little over 1,000 days...
Mountains of garbage and despair in India's dirtiest city
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Welcome to Awas Vikas: one of the most exclusive parts of Gonda, a city suffering the ignominy of being branded the dirtiest in India. Even in such upmarket are...
I.Coast toxic spill victims launch new Dutch court bid
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
The multinational firm Trafigura "acted badly in disposing of its waste in the Ivory Coast" and "must pay," lawyer Bojan Dekker told an Amsterdam court. The jud...
Dutch court to hear new case on I.Coast chemical spill
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
It is the latest in a slew of legal actions brought against the Dutch-Swiss commodity trader Trafigura following the disaster in Abidjan, the west African count...
Nestle tackles 'ocean-polluter' tag in Philippines
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
In a report released in Manila last week, the environmental group tagged the Philippines as the "third-worst polluter into the world's oceans" after China and I...
Are plastic nanoparticles causing brain damage in fish?
Sep 25, 2017 (UPI)
"Our study is the first to show that nanosized plastic particles can accumulate in fish brains," Tommy Cedervall, a chemistry researcher at Lund University in S...
The waste-collecting cyclists who caught the UN's eye
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Their creative initiative, which relies largely on volunteers, has even impressed the United Nations. La Tricyclerie, a neat play on the French words for sortin...
Brexit a step away from pollution commitments, U.N. envoy says
Sep 14, 2017 (UPI)
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday that Parliament made the "historic decision" to vote for a bill that gives clarity for the path out of the Europ...
Canada's Eldorado Gold to suspend investment in Greece
Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)
Despite repeated attempts by the company and its Greek subsidiary to talk to the government, "delays continue in issuing routine permits and licences for the co...
UN slams UK government over 'plague' of air pollution
Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)
"Air pollution continues to plague the United Kingdom," read the report by United Nations expert Baskut Tuncak, to be presented at the rights council in Geneva ...
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