News About Pollution 20-NOV-09 en-us 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.]]> New Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2009 - India on Wednesday tightened air quality rules and said it will enforce a single standard for industrial and residential pollution.]]> Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 19, 2009 - Small 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 filters.]]> Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 - Every night, Mrs Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump.]]> Geneva (AFP) Nov 13, 2009 - A "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.]]> Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 12, 2009 - Hundreds of ships mysteriously left idle off the Malaysian coast during the economic downturn are posing environmental and safety hazards, port authorities and fishermen say.]]> Washington (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 - Dozens of US military personnel have filed 34 lawsuits against KBR accusing the defense contractor of incinerating and releasing into the atmosphere toxic waste in Iraq and Afghanistan.]]> Jayapura, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 12, 2009 - Logging and agribusiness are increasingly threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders and scientists said Thursday.]]> Paris (AFP) Nov 15, 2009 - Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday.]]> Bhopal, India (AFP) Nov 11, 2009 - Survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in India's Bhopal city are outraged by plans to throw open the site to visitors 25 years after the tragedy that killed thousands.]]>