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Vietnam battles plastic blight in idyllic Ha Long Bay

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Fungi and plants clean up California pollution

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High-stakes talks to end plastic pollution resume

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Coming years ‘critical’ to slash plastic pollution: UN

3星期前

It’s getting harder to breathe in Malaysia

2月前

China renews blue alert for sandstorm

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Work-from-home order issued as Thai city tops world pollution table

Chiang Mai was ranked the world's most polluted city on Friday, with authorities urging people to work from home to avoid the hazardous air....

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Dust storms cause air pollution spike across north China

Air pollution soared in Beijing on Wednesday as the Chinese capital was hit by a huge sandstorm, and dust also shrouded other parts of the country in a sickly orange haze....

3月前

Lynas, the 21st century Trojan Horse

Operators of polluting industries are spreading their tentacles to developing countries avid to pursue their industrialization goals, in a way such catastrophic “social costs” are being transferred ac...

4月前

Out of Nile, into tile: Young Egyptians battle plastic plague

Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or th...

5月前

Pollution linked to 10% of cancer cases in Europe: report

Pollution is linked to more than 10 percent of cancer cases in Europe, a report by the European Environment Agency said Tuesday....

11月前

Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh’s garment-driven economic boom

Bangladeshi ferryman Kalu Molla began working on the Buriganga river before the patchwork of slums on its banks gave way to garment factories -- and before its waters turned pitch black....

12月前

Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years

PARIS: Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported. Across South Asia, the average person would live five year...

12月前

Sandstorms pose serious risk to human health

Sandstorms have engulfed the Middle East in recent days, in a phenomenon experts warn could proliferate because of climate change, putting human health at grave risk....

1年前

Pollution behind 1 in 6 global deaths in 2019: study

Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published Wednesday, with experts raising alarm over increasing deaths from breathing outside air an...

1年前

Plastic, chemical pollution beyond planet’s safe limit: study

The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and production caps are urgently needed, scientists have concluded for the f...

1年前