During this year’s World Antibiotics Awareness Week, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) released a press statement calling on the Malaysian government to give urgent attention to the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is responsible for some 700,000…
Dhaka – Bangladesh is losing one percent GDP every year due to air pollution, which is a key barrier to the country’s vision to become an upper-middle income country, according to a new World Bank analysis.Bangladesh must check environmental degradation,…
NAIROBI,(BSS/XINHUA) – The third session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) ended in Nairobi on Wednesday with leaders pledging to end pollution for a clean environment. Over 4,000 heads of state, ministers, business leaders, UN officials, civil society representatives, activists…
As New Delhi and other major cities hit new toxic smog peaks, the United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the damage that pollution is doing to babies’ developing brains. The UN’s children’s agency, UNICEF, said Asia accounts for more…
Over 4,000 heads of state, ministers, business leaders, UN officials and civil society representatives gathered Monday at the third UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi to tackle the global menace of pollution.
Pollution stopped play on Sunday in the third Test between India and Sri Lanka, and visiting coach Nic Pothas said
By Manipadma Jena Nairobi/New Delhi, Dec 1 (IPS) – “Political resolve is the key for succeeding in our fight against oceans pollution,” Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment, who is leading hands-on the organisation’s global campaign to clean up seas…
By Olusoji O. Adeyi and Julia Bucknall Heavy smog compelled New Delhi to declare a pollution emergency last week. As air pollution soared to hazardous levels and residents donned masks, India’s capital took a series of measures, such as banning…
Robert J. Burrowes Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which had…
New Delhi – The theme for India Rivers Day 2017 (IRD 2017), held on 25th November 2017 at the INTACH Delhi premises, was ‘Rivers in the Urban Context’. Various formats of engagement were deployed for discussion among the participants from…
Dhaka, Nov 25 – The Paribesh Bachao Andalon (POBA), an environment protection organization, has asked for the strict enforcement of the laws to save the Dhaka City from polluting air.
By Victoria Gill A study of pictures of Earth by night has revealed that artificial light is growing brighter and more extensive every year. Between 2012 and 2016, the planet’s artificially lit outdoor area grew by more than 2% per…
We are in the Anthropocene and likely experiencing the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, the first to be caused by humans. In 1962, Rachel Carson warned in her book, ‘Silent Spring’ that the decline of birds (primarily due to DDT exposure)…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Nov 20 (IPS) – Now that the lights of the UN climate change summit’s meeting rooms have been turned off in Bonn, after a week of intense negotiations and some partial results, another major environmental event…
Robert Watson Norwich – With the United Nations’ climate change conference underway in Bonn, Germany, rising global temperatures are once again at the top of the world’s agenda. But why care about the increase in temperature, if not because of…
Dhaka, Nov 18 – The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) on Saturday demanded immediate excavation of river Gumti and Dakatia by making those free from pollution and grabbing for the free flow of water and movement…
‘Sound pollution causes high blood pressure, headache, indigestion, ulcer’ Dhaka – Motorcycles and private cars are the main sources of noise pollution in the country’s major cities, followed by public buses, says a new survey of the Department of Environment…
Robert Watson Norwich – With the United Nations’ climate change conference underway in Bonn, Germany, rising global temperatures are once again at the top of the world’s agenda. But why care about the increase in temperature, if not because of…
Illegal crop burning in farm states surrounding New Delhi, vehicle exhaust in a city with limited public transport and swirling construction dust have caused the crisis, as they do year after year.
Volunteers have taken to the streets of India’s capital and fitted green pollution masks over the mouths of willing residents to make a statement about the city’s choking smog. Not everybody wanted to play along and some batted the masks…
Delhi shut all primary schools on Wednesday as pollution hit 70 times the World Health Organization’s safe level, prompting doctors in the Indian capital to warn of a public health emergency. Dense grey smog shrouded the roads of the world’s…
Nathalie Bernasconi – Osterwalder , Jorg Haas In 2016, global spending on oil and gas projects was more than double the total spent on renewables. That imbalance can be addressed only by restructuring the mechanisms, particularly existing trade treaties, that govern…
The global toll of chronic kidney disease (CKD) attributable to PM2.5 pollution is significant, according to an analysis presented at ASN (American Society of Nephrology) Kidney Week. Benjamin Bowe, MPH, (Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA Saint Louis Health Care…
Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. One out…
By Sunita Narain Do not read me wrong. Last fortnight I had said we may breathe easier this winter. This does not mean we will breathe clean air. I meant compared to last winter air pollution would be lower because…
The Cabinet today approved a proposed pesticide law suggesting tougher punitive actions against storing and marketing of adulterated bug killers meant for crop protection.
Cox’s Bazar, Oct 29 – Burning firewood desperately by the Rohingya people of Ukhia, Teknaf and Naikhangchhari will destroy the ecosystem of the Cox’s Bazar deeply.
By Baher Kamal Rome, Oct 26 (IPS) – The prevailing “Take-Make-Dispose” linear economic model consisting of voracious depletion of natural resources in both production and consumption patterns have proved to be one of the world’s main killers due to the…
Dhaka, Oct 25 – Declaring Bangladesh Secretariat a smoke-free zone, the Cabinet Division has asked the secretaries of all the ministries to make sure that no one smokes in the country’s administrative hub.
Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to a quarter of deaths.…