Tag: Pollution

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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Galapagos face ecological disaster due to tourism

Mosquitoes brought into the Galapagos on tourist planes and boats threaten to wreak "ecological disaster" in the islands, central

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Rich nations offer 15-21 percent CO2 cuts by 2020: U.N.

Industrialized nations excluding the United States are planning cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of between 15 and 21 percent

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Beaches closed in France because of toxic poisonous algae

More beaches could be shut in northwestern France due to health fears over toxic algae, conservationists warned on Monday,

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Australia: Climate Change reef damage will cost billions

CLIMATE change will inflict more than $37 billion worth of damage to the Great Barrier Reef over the next

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Climate change to challenge US military

Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military

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Malaysia hit with haze from forest fires

Malaysia was Wednesday hit with the worst haze levels recorded this year, as smoke from forest fires caused "unhealthy"

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Beijing’s smog is back year after Olympics

Amid fears the city's chronic smog could damage athlete's health, Beijing took drastic steps to prevent that last August,

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Hundreds sickened by China chemical plant

More than 500 people have been sickened by pollution from a chemical plant in central China that has also

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Coal fires up India farmers against power plants

Rajni Ramakan Patil has a message for the energy companies that want to build coal-based power stations on the

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