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Burning trash and factories belching smoke choke Iraqis
Middle East

Burning trash and factories belching smoke choke Iraqis

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – As if life was not bad enough for Adnan Kadhim – he lives in a slum where…
Burn or spurn? What to do with Western waste
Environment

Burn or spurn? What to do with Western waste

Western countries must increasingly deal with hard to dispose of plastics because China and many southeastern Asian countries no longer…
Tanzania bans plastic bags to clean up environment
World

Tanzania bans plastic bags to clean up environment

A ban on plastic bags came into force in Tanzania on Saturday as part of an effort to tackle pollution in…
You can have your plate and eat it too, says Polish inventor
Food

You can have your plate and eat it too, says Polish inventor

Polish inventor and entrepreneur Jerzy Wysocki catches a brown plate — still warm — as it drops out of a…
Malaysia to ship back hundreds of tonnes of plastic waste
Environment

Malaysia to ship back hundreds of tonnes of plastic waste

Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said Tuesday, insisting…
415.26 parts per million: CO2 levels hit historic high
World

415.26 parts per million: CO2 levels hit historic high

Scientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere since records began,…
UN report says nature is in worst shape in human history
Environment

UN report says nature is in worst shape in human history

Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million…
How to fix Nature and avoid human misery: UN report
World

How to fix Nature and avoid human misery: UN report

Revamping global food production, retooling the financial sector, moving beyond GDP as a measure of progress and other “transformative changes”…
UN biodiversity conference to lay groundwork for Nature rescue plan
Environment

UN biodiversity conference to lay groundwork for Nature rescue plan

Diplomats from 130 nations gathered in Paris on Monday to validate a grim UN assessment of the state of Nature…
Prosecutors investigate oil spill in Red Sea
Egypt

Prosecutors investigate oil spill in Red Sea

Red Sea prosecutors on Sunday are investigating an oil spill in the Jebel al-Zayt coast, north of the Red Sea,…
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