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Athens rubbish piles up as Greeks protest contractsAthens (AFP) June 22, 2017 Mounds of rubbish festered in soaring temperatures in Athens on Thursday as thousands demonstrated in support of refuse collectors demanding the renewal of their contracts. Authorities said around 5,000 people gathered in central Athens, closing roads to traffic in the latest protest against austerity measures imposed by the country's international creditors. Protesters descended on Syntagma Square, which has become a crucible for popular discontent over Greece's flailing economy. Refu ... read more |
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 China drone king turns to farming How eggs got their shapes Fossil holds new insights into how fish evolved onto land Comb and Copter system maps atmospheric gases City rats: Why scientists are not hot on their tails New research suggests problematic memories could be deleted | .. |
 Vietnam environment official sacked over mass fish kill A senior Vietnamese environment official has been fired for negligence over a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in a major environmental crisis last year, according to officials and state media. ... more | .. |
 Pakistani citizens gasp for clean air Furhan Hussain moved to Islamabad seeking fresher air, only to find Pakistan's leafy capital in a semi-permanent haze. Frustrated, he joined a vanguard of citizens monitoring pollution themselves amid a void in government data. ... more | .. |
 Donkeys at dawn: a rubbish job in the Algiers Kasbah It's a rubbish job, but someone has to do it. Or some animal: in the alleyways of Algiers' famed Kasbah, donkeys shift tonnes of trash every day. ... more | .. |
 Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants Imagine wearing a device that continuously analyzes your sweat or blood for different types of biomarkers, such as proteins that show you may have breast cancer or lung cancer. Rutgers enginee ... more |
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 'Green police' to battle Tunisia trash scourge Tunisia on Tuesday launched a special "green police" unit aimed at dealing with the proliferation of waste, a scourge that has worsened dramatically since the 2011 revolution. ... more | .. |
 Garbage dumped in sea off Lebanon sparks outrage A "mountain of garbage" dumped at sea off Beirut under a deal between the government and a company has sparked outrage in Lebanon, two years after mass protests over a waste crisis. ... more | .. |
 Plastic in rivers major source of ocean pollution: study Plastic that is dumped in rivers and then ends up in the world's oceans is one of the major sources of marine pollution, a new study said this week, with Asian waterways the main culprits. ... more | .. |
 A new hyper-local air pollution map Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the most detailed and extensive local map of air pollution ever produced for an urban area, using specially equipped Googl ... more |
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 Woman sues France over Paris pollution health damage A Frenchwoman suffering from chronic respiratory problems on Wednesday sued the state, accusing it of failing to protect her from air pollution in Paris. ... more | .. |
 Americans' caffeine habit may be harming waterways, wildlife What would we do without caffeine? Millions of Americans rely on it in coffee, tea and energy drinks to prepare for a day at work, keep focused on a long drive or simply stay awake after a big lunch. ... more | .. |
 Slovenia's 'eco-hero' who crushed a cement giant When he saw swallows nesting in the barn for the first time in almost two decades, Slovenian farmer Uros Macerl felt vindicated. His exhausting battle against a polluting industrial giant had been worthwhile. ... more | .. |
 Pollution 'devastating' China's vital ecosystem, research shows The startling extent to which man-made pollution is devastating China's vital ecosystem's ability to offset damaging carbon emissions has been revealed. A pioneering new international study, l ... more |
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 Mining for answers on abandoned mines Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he's working on is contaminated soils near abandoned mines. In the western United States 160,000 abandone ... more | .. |
Scott Pruitt: EPA chief who urged Trump to ditch climate pact After years of fighting to roll back Barack Obama's policies, top US environmental official and climate change skeptic Scott Pruitt saw his efforts bear fruit Thursday when President Donald Trump announced the US exit from the Paris climate deal. ... more | .. |
 Man-made air pollution in Europe dates back 2,000 years Analysis of ice cores, as well as historic health and economic records, suggests humans have been polluting the air for at least 2,000 years, challenging the assumption that environmental degradation began during the Industrial Revolution. ... more | .. |
Taiwan steel plant opens in Vietnam after fish deaths A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in Vietnam last year started operations on Monday, state media in Hanoi reported. ... more |
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 Tough times for S.Africa town blighted by mine closure At the end of a narrow road stands the dilapidated husk of a golf clubhouse, now overrun with tall weeds and creepers. ... more | .. |
 37 million bits of litter on remote islands The beaches of one of the world's most remote islands have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet, in a study published in the prestigio ... more | .. |
 Cities need to 'green up' to reduce the impact of air pollution The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built-up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found. ... more | .. |
 Ozone and haze pollution weakens land carbon uptake in China Toxic air pollution is a serious side effect of the rapid economic development in China. While it is widely recognized that air pollutants adversely affect human health and climate change, their imp ... more |
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Vietnam arrests activist as MP resigns over mass fish deaths Vietnam arrested another activist on Monday for organising protests over mass fish deaths caused by pollution from a steel plant, the same day a lawmaker resigned over the environmental scandal. ... more | .. |
 Mining brings Chile city riches -- and fear of cancer Black dust stains the walls of the building where Jaqueline Jimenez and her children once lived in northern Chile. ... more | .. |
 'Excess' car pollution killed 38,000 in 2015: study "Excess" diesel truck and car emissions claimed about 38,000 lives worldwide in 2015, said a study Monday that sought to quantify deaths due to pollution that carmakers sought to hide. ... more | .. |
Plastic trash chokes remote South Pacific island One of the planet's most remote islands is polluted with the highest density of plastic particles ever reported, with more than 3,500 pieces washing up daily, researchers said Monday. ... more |
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