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Hidden Threat: Elevated Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2009 
Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution - a well-recognized problem at major airports - may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems. The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne pollutants near regional ... read moreIndia adopts single pollution standard norms 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2009India on Wednesday tightened air quality rules and said it will enforce a single standard for industrial and residential pollution. The Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards rule would lead to the use of "clean fuel" to lower emissions, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said. The announcement came less than a month before the December 7-18 climate change summit in ... more
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Tiny Bubbles Clean Oil From Water
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 19, 2009Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filte ... more Beijing grapples with growing garbage crisis 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Every night, Mrs Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump. "For at least one hour, we don't open our windows as the smell from the rubbish tip is horrendous," said the frustrated young mother, standing outside her son's school in a city in the midst of a garbage crisis. China's capital still relies heavily on burying its ... more 'Catastrophic' e-waste fuels global toxic dump: experts 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 13, 2009A "catastrophic accumulation" of millions of tonnes of "e-waste" from computers, cellphones and television sets is fuelling a global pile of hazardous waste, an international body warned Friday. Figures due to be released by the Basel Convention on transboundary movement of hazardous waste will show that the amount of discarded electronic goods has grown exponentially in recent years ... more Malaysia's mysterious ship city causes concern 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 12, 2009Hundreds of ships mysteriously left idle off the Malaysian coast during the economic downturn are posing environmental and safety hazards, port authorities and fishermen say. The ships are lying off the southeastern tip of southern Johor state which faces onto Singapore, positioned outside port limits to avoid charges and official scrutiny. Some authorities said they believed the ships ... more |
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India to allow visits to Bhopal disaster site
Bhopal, India (AFP) Nov 10, 2009India will mark next month's 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the world's worst industrial accident, by throwing open the site to visitors, an official said Tuesday. Tragedy struck on December 3-4, 1984 when a storage tank at a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide -- bought by US group Dow Chemicals in 1999 -- spewed cyanide gas into the air, instantly killing more than 3,500 people. ... more India blocks break-up of 'toxic' US ship: local official 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 9, 2009India blocked a former US naval ship heading for a scrap yard on its west coast, citing environmental and pollution concerns in a case that mirrors past scandals, a local official said Monday. The Platinum II, anchored off the western Gujarat coast, was ordered to remain at sea last month pending a probe by the environment ministry after protests by campaign groups. The case follows ... more Sandia Announces Completion Of Mixed Waste Landfill Cover Construction 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Nov 10, 2009The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. The protective cover consists of four engineered layers, including three layers of compacted ... more SKorea to plant trees in China to reduce 'yellow dust' 
Seoul (AFP) Nov 4, 2009The 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. ... more |
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