カテゴリー: Pollution
The Navotas mudflats are among the last of their kind and act as a crucial feeding ground for migratory birds, but they are being buried in plasticThere are stray, abandoned flip flops, old foil food wrappers, crumpled plastic bags, and discarded water…
The Navotas mudflats are among the last of their kind and act as a crucial feeding ground for migratory birds, but they are being buried in plasticThere are stray, abandoned flip flops, old foil food wrappers, crumpled plastic bags, and discarded water…
Numbers of the country’s carrion-loving birds dropped by over 97% in the 1990s. Now, a successful breeding scheme is giving them a boostIn February, the doors of an aviary in West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve were flung open. Eight critically endangered…
Ban on plastics including cotton buds, packaging, cutlery, straws and fruit labels to be phased in from next yearNew Zealanders will be farewelling their plastics – bags, ear buds, spoons and straws – as the government attempts to match the country’s r…
We must find a way to embrace shipping, the ocean and our place in the world without shackling ourselves to unpayable foreign debtGrowing up in Sri Lanka in the 1990s, it was drilled into me from an early age that my island was destined to be a maritim…
Fishing communities fear for future as oil, plastic and toxic chemicals devastate ecosystemUntil last week Lucien Justin, the chair of the Jude Watta fisheries committee in Wattala, near Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, lived a simple life. He and his wif…
Navy tugboats and helicopters monitor wreckage as green film surrounds chemical-laden vesselSri Lankan officials have begun preparing for a potentially devastating oil spill after a cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals caught fire off the coast and sank…
Aerial footage shows a cargo ship carrying chemicals on fire off the Sri Lankan coast. The fire on MV X-Press Pearl, a Singapore-registered ship, broke out on 20 May and has been burning ever since, spilling microplastics across Sri Lanka’s beaches and…
A sandstorm has combined with already high air pollution to turn the sky over Beijing an eerie orange. Air quality indexes recorded a “hazardous” 999 rating on Monday as commuters travelled to work through the thick, dark air across China’s capital and…
Building and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdownGhulam Nabi Butt may be 90 years old, but he has never forgotten the three days that George Harrison came to stay on his houseboat i…
Building and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdownGhulam Nabi Butt may be 90 years old, but he has never forgotten the three days that George Harrison came to stay on his houseboat i…
New research links Delhi’s thick smogs to burning of plasticsPlastic waste in our oceans is now a well-known issue but new data shows that plastic is adding to air pollution in Indian cities too.For several years scientists were puzzled why Delhi was m…
Lancet report finds that toxic air caused rise in lung cancer, stroke and other diseasesPollution accounted for nearly 1.7m premature deaths in India in 2019, or 18% of all deaths, according to a study that lays bare the human cost of the country’s tox…
Indian capital records highest single day rise in cases as monitor says pollution is at 14 times WHO safe level Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDelhi’s 20 million residents are facing a double health crisis as high levels of…
Injured surfers and large number of dead sea creatures reported in Kamchatka regionWater pollution in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula that caused sea creatures to wash up dead on beaches has prompted fears that rocket fuel stored in the region’s military …