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Sri Lanka chemical ship wreck to be salvaged: operators
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
A salvage company has been contracted to remove the sunken MV X-Press Pearl and the remains of its cargo, its Singapore-based managers said. "The wreck removal ...
Thailand plots sustainable comeback for DiCaprio beach
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
Mass tourism had brought the archipelago, immortalised in Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach", to the brink of ecological catastrophe. Now Thailand hopes to mak...
Texas bears brunt of US plastic pollution
Dec 05, 2021 (AFP)
For years Wilson has been documenting this pollution by Formosa Plastics Group, the world's fourth largest plastic manufacturer. It set up shop in 1983 south of...
Thousands block roads in Serbia to protest mining project
Dec 04, 2021 (AFP)
In the capital Belgrade, protesters swarmed a major highway and bridge linking the city to outlying suburbs as the crowd chanted anti-government slogans while s...
Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
"The issues of plastic go beyond just ingestion and entanglement," said Linsey Haram, lead author of the article and former postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsoni...
'Drowning in garbage': Ukraine struggles with trash crisis
Dec 03, 2021 (AFP)
Nina Popova, a 73-year-old retired accountant who lives in the nearby village of Pidgirtsi, says life there is a misery. "It reeks. We're all sick. We have hear...
Delhi shuts schools again after court warning to curb pollution
Dec 02, 2021 (AFP)
New Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities and home to about 20 million people, is cloaked in a thick blanket of smog every winter. The city government ...
United States is world's biggest plastic polluter, report finds
Dec 01, 2021 (AFP)
Overall, the US contributed around 42 million metric tons (MMT) in plastic waste in 2016 -- more than twice as much as China and more than the countries of the ...
Study outlines challenges to ongoing clean-up of burnt and unburnt nurdles along Sri Lanka's coastline
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
A new peer-reviewed study characterizes how the fire modified the physical and chemical properties of the nurdles and proposes that these properties affected th...
Anti-Black Friday groups push for greener, less consumerist future
Nov 26, 2021 (AFP)
In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving -- celebrated the fourth Thursday in November -- is marked by frenzied deal-snagging as retailers offer sales t...
Delhi's choked roads worsen India's toxic smog crisis
Nov 26, 2021 (AFP)
The sprawling megacity of 20 million people is regularly ranked the world's most polluted capital, with traffic exhaust a main driver of the toxic smog that per...
Pakistan's anti-smog squads target factories as winter sets in
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Inside the white vehicle sits an armed escort protecting the six members of the team, who clutch a list of locations they plan to inspect that day. They scan th...
Illegal miners clog Amazon tributary in new gold rush
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Federal police were preparing an operation to stop the more than 300 vessels -- the environmental group says the number could be far higher -- engaged in illega...
Delhi to reopen schools as smog goes from worse to bad
Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)
Gopal Rai, Delhi state's environment minister, told journalists that pollution levels in the city had "improved in the last three days" and some of the restrict...
'It's killing us': Delhi's smog-choked roads take their toll
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
For the last three decades, Lal carted passengers along bumpy thoroughfares to temples, markets and offices in New Delhi, working every day through the winter m...
'We thought he had Covid but it was smog': Life in polluted Pakistan
Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)
The megacity of nearly 11 million people near the border with India was once the ancient capital of the Mughal Empire and remains Pakistan's cultural epicentre....
Fishing for solutions to the plastic problem
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
More than 35 percent of fish caught in the waters off southern Australia contain microplastics, and the problem is most acute in South Australia, with plastic f...
'Trash music': Turkish band recycles rubbish into sounds
Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)
Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum ...
US throws support behind treaty to curb plastic
Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)
On a visit to the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States would back talks in the Kenyan capit...
Pakistani's want pollution solution; New Delhi closes schools, Smog welcomes Taj Mahal tourists
Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)
Lahore had an air quality ranking of 348, well over the hazardous level of 300, according to IQAir, the Swiss technology company that operates the AirVisual mon...
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