pollution
Burning trash and factories belching smoke choke Iraqis
Middle East
June 6, 2019
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
June 5, 2019
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
June 2, 2019
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
June 1, 2019
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
May 28, 2019
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
May 14, 2019
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
May 6, 2019
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
May 4, 2019
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
April 29, 2019
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
April 27, 2019
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,…