Pollution

Oil tycoon Chevron was condemned by a US jury to pay $745 million for contaminating wetlands close to New Orleans and then neglecting to restore the region. A jury at Pointe a la Hache, in Plaquemines...

As President Donald Trump cuts foreign and environmental funding, the United States on Tuesday stopped measuring pollution at its embassies, which had been a crucial source of information, particularly in Beijing. “Budget constraints” were the excuse...

Sri Lanka launched a criminal probe on Sunday into a massive container ship fire that has swamped the island nation’s coast with plastic pollution in an unprecedented marine disaster,reports BSS. Tonnes of microplastic granules have inundated...

Thousands marched through Madrid on Saturday to ask the Spanish capital’s new mayor not to ditch ambitious traffic restrictions in the center only recently set up to improve air quality. “Madrid Central,” as it is called,...

Mexico City declared an air pollution alert for the second straight day Wednesday, urging people to stay indoors, canceling school and moving the semi-finals of the first-division football league to another city. The capital, whose sprawling...

The Ecuadoran government announced Saturday it will appeal a ruling won by the country’s Waorani indigenous tribe that blocks oil companies’ entry onto ancestral Amazonian lands for exploration activities. The Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural...

China will order detailed punishment measures for officials in regions that miss air quality targets this winter, refusing to accept unfavorable weather or mounting economic pressure as excuses, an environment ministry official said on Monday. China...

Authorities here have asked Delhi schools to restrict their outdoor activities as stubble burning in neighbouriung Punjab and Haryana blackened skylines of the Indian capital. Officials and media reports today said the Delhi government overnight issued...

Bangladesh’s One Day International (ODI) captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza here today urged all to take pragmatic step to protect the environment from all sorts of pollution, reports BSS> “The level of environment pollution in the country...

It seems nothing can escape the inexorable spread of light pollution not even the giant telescopes probing the heavens above northern Chile, a region whose pristine dark skies, long considered a paradise for astronomers, are under...