Category: Pollution

Dead Sea Air Contains Mercury

The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels

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Naples Trash Gone by Christmas

Italy's southern city of Naples will be rid of its piles of garbage by Christmas with the arrival of

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Gulf Closed as Shrimpers Catch Tar

US authorities Wednesday closed to shrimping a section of the Gulf of Mexico near the area of a massive

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Greenhouse Gases at Record Levels

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says concentrations of the main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached their highest

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China World’s Biggest Polluter

China acknowledged on Tuesday that it is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, as it called on the United

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Indonesia Protects Coral Reefs

Indonesia on Sunday declared the coral-rich waters around Bali -- a popular scuba diving spot which is home to

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Carbon Emissions on The Increase

Emissions of fossil-fuel gases that stoke climate change edged back less than hoped in 2009 as falls in advanced

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Chinese Man Battles Lake Pollution

ZHOUTIE, China — You smell the lake before you see it, an overwhelming stench like rotten eggs mixed with

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It’s Black Cloud Season in Cairo

Cairo — Every year a noxious black smog hangs over Egypt as the seasonal burning of rice straw by

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BP Didn’t Put Profit Before Safety

A US presidential panel probing the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster examined Tuesday the oil industry's safety culture, after

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