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SKorea to plant trees in China to reduce 'yellow dust' Seoul (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 
The Seoul city government will help fund a tree-planting project in a Chinese desert to reduce the amount of harmful "yellow dust" blowing over South Korea, officials said Wednesday. The city government signed an accord Tuesday to invest 50 million won (42,000 dollars) in the planting project led by Future Forest, a South Korean environmental group operating in China for the past 10 years. ... read moreChina rushes to clean up oil spill on Yangtze: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 2, 2009Authorities in China rushed to clean up an oil spill at the mouth of the Yangtze River after an Iranian-registered ship ran aground in bad weather, state media said Monday. The freighter 'Zoorik' was stranded Sunday at Luhuashan in eastern Zhejiang province and the 37 people on board - including a two-year-old boy - were airlifted to safety, the official Xinhua news agency reported. ... more
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Shipwreck was not Italian mafia waste vessel: official
Rome (AFP) Oct 30, 2009A ship thought to have been sunk by Italy's southern 'Ndrangheta mafia to dispose of radioactive waste has been found to contain no dangerous substances, authorities said Friday. "The shipwreck we found is that of the 'Catania' and has nothing to do with the statements of (mafia) turncoat Francesco Fonti," prosecutor Vincenzo Lombardo told the ANSA news agency. "You can read clearly on ... more Acid ship sinks in China's Yangtze: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2009A ship carrying 100 tonnes of hydrochloric acid sank in China's Yangtze river Sunday after colliding with another vessel, state media reported, citing local officials. The collision happened during strong winds in central Hubei province, Xinhua news agency said, adding that efforts were under way to retrieve the highly corrosive cargo. The report did not say if the acid was contained on ... more Chevron tried to taint Ecuador toxic waste trial: lawyer 
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2009Videos posted online by US oil company Chevron purporting to show rampant corruption among Ecuadoran officials, are actually a set-up meant to taint an ongoing trial against the energy giant, an attorney in the case alleged Thursday. "By releasing the videos, in my opinion Chevron is trying to taint a trial process that they knew they were going to lose, with the hope that the case would be ... more India swamped by 420,000 tonnes of e-waste: lobby group 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 27, 2009India faces a mounting challenge to dispose of an estimated 420,000 tonnes of electronic waste a year that it generates domestically and imports from abroad, a green lobby group said Tuesday. Priti Mahesh, senior programme officer with New Delhi-based Toxic Link, said there were no separate figures for e-waste generated by Indians and the amount imported, but the scale of the problem was ... more |
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China to relocate 15,000 from lead-poisoned area: state media
Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2009 Authorities in central China plan to move 15,000 residents away from smelting plants in the area after nearly 1,000 children tested positive for lead poisoning, state media said Friday. Zhao Suping, mayor of Jiyuan city in Henan province, said the mass relocation would cost one billion yuan (146 million dollars), the official Xinhua news agency reported. Zhao said 70 percent of the cost ... more Falklands de-mining receives go-ahead 
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Oct 13, 2009 More than two decades after the Falklands Islands conflict between Britain and Argentina, clearing mines from the old battlefields is set to start with the award of a new contract to BACTEC International Ltd., officials said. Clearance of mines from 117 mined areas was to have finished by March this year but Britain secured a 10-year extension for the project, arguing the task was too ... more Nearly 1,000 children poisoned with lead in central China: report 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2009Nearly 1,000 children in central China have tested positive for lead poisoning in the latest environmental scandal to erupt in the nation's smelting industry, state press said Tuesday. The news comes close on the heels of a spate of lead poisoning incidents around China, and after residents in Jiyuan city, Henan province, protested over pollution from three local smelters last month, Xinhua ... more Africans in legal battle over toxic waste 
London (UPI) Oct 9, 2009 Greenpeace is locked in a legal battle with Trafigura, a London-based oil trader, over the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006 that poisoned thousands of people and killed 15. The case highlights a dangerous spinoff of the global resources boom: the smuggling of huge amounts of dangerous waste from Europe to the poor countries of the Third World. In September Trafigura ... more |
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