Tag: Polluted Water

Trafigura settles over Ivory Coast toxic waste claims

Oil-trading company Trafigura has agreed to pay 30 million pounds to victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast

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Global Warming Apocalypse – James Lovelock

Five years ago, James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia" issued a terrifying warning: if humankind didn't radically curtail greenhouse-gas

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Mafia sank boat with radioactive waste: official

Italian authorities have discovered a ship that was sunk by the mafia off the coast of southern Italy with

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Argentina, Uruguay pollution row reaches UN court

Argentina accused neighbouring Uruguay in the UN's highest court Monday of reneging on a bilateral treaty when it authorised

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Seaweed suspected in French death

French investigators are examining whether a lorry driver has become the first victim of a toxic seaweed that is

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Climate change killing corals, costing billions

Climate change is killing valuable coral reef systems, a United Nations-backed report published on Wednesday warned. The report -- entitled

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China riot: 10,000 villagers clash with police over industrial pollution

Up to 10,000 Chinese villagers have clashed with police in eastern China in the latest incident in a wave

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U.S. finds water polluted near gas-drilling sites

U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling

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World’s Ocean Temperatures Hottest Ever

WASHINGTON — The world's oceans this summer are the warmest on record. The National Climatic Data Center, the government agency

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Seaweed on French beaches ’emitting lethal fumes’

Mounds of rotting seaweed clogging beaches across northwestern France are emitting a toxic and potentially lethal gas, test results

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