Category: Pollution

Russian authorities should immediately release from custody all 30 people arrested in connection with a Greenpeace protest in the Barents Sea, said Human Rights Watch.

Environment and Forests Minster Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday urged people to raise their voice against polluters and grabbers to protect the country’s rivers from rampant pollution and grabbing.

Nations have been going to war against other nations since before recorded history. There have been periods of peace, and then periods of war. As our societies become more advanced, do they become more civilized, does war decrease as less…

By James Gallagher

US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena on Saturday laid emphasis on using advanced and clean cookstoves and pledged that the US government will work with Bangladesh government and other stakeholders to help flourish the use of such cookstoves.

Japan is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into building a frozen wall around the Fukushima nuclear plant to stop leaks of radioactive water.

TOKYO — Japan’s top nuclear regulator raised safety concerns Monday about hastily built storage tanks and their foundations after signs of more leaks of radiation-contaminated water at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Children as young as eight years old are working in Tanzanian small-scale gold mines, with grave risks to their health and even their lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Tanzanian government should curb child labor…

Holly Ellyatt

Bharati Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times

By Matt McGrath

An app that gives bathers and surfers real-time warnings about pollution incidents on beaches has been launched.

Nearly 20 million people in China could be exposed to water contaminated with arsenic, a study suggests.

Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased. For example, farmers have used silver nanoparticles as a pesticide because of their capability to suppress the growth of…

Jennifer Argo, a marketing professor in the U of A’s Alberta School of Business, says that people are psychologically hard-wired to believe that products that are damaged or that aren’t whole—such as small or ripped paper or dented cans—are useless,…

TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear watchdog said a leak of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant could be the beginning of a new disaster — a series of leaks of contaminated water from storage tanks.

Mahfuz Adnan

Environmental lobby group says that despite supporting Daimler in its quest for CO2 air conditioning, the ‘polluter pays’ principle should be applied to it for not complying with the MAC Directive

By RT

By EurActiv EurActiv — African nations have called for continent-wide action to staunch the import of electronic waste, including old computers and mobile telephones from Europe where stringent environmental laws make exporting used goods cheaper than disposing of them at…

Researchers have reported the first case of human-to-human transmission of the new strain of bird flu that has emerged in China.

Embattled Fukushima operator Tepco has been accused of a “weak sense of crisis”, as its failing battle to prevent radioactive water from seeping into the seawater near the plant has become an “emergency”, according to the country’s nuclear watchdog.

Reporters Without Borders condemned Monday the Sri Lanka army’s use of violence on 1 August against journalists covering demonstrations by residents of the western town of Weliweriya to call for the closure of a factory accused of polluting local water…

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

By Navin Singh Khadka

By Helen Briggs

Being able to live a clean, active and healthy life should be a basic human right. Yet, this is not a privilege that everyone has — a point underscored by two high level reports.

Rice tainted with high levels of arsenic has been linked to genetic damage that heightens the risk of cancer, a study published on Monday said.

Green activists here on Friday demanded the government take effective steps to ensure marketing of safe iftar items and fruits in the holy month of Ramadan to protect people from serious health hazards.