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By Crystal Park Washington, DC 28 February 2006 watch eWaste report Constant innovations and breakthroughs in technology are helping the world. But there's a downside. The amount of electronic waste,
By Phuong Tran Dakar 31 January 2007 Despite an international ban on toxic waste dumping, environmentalists say unscrupulous companies find ways to continue exporting their deadly cargo. Vast quantities of waste are exported from rich to poor countr
By Steve Herman New Delhi 29 February 2008 A disabled passenger ship being towed across the Pacific Ocean is rekindling debate about how such vessels are scrapped. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi. A once glorious ocean liner is
the U.S. federal budget. Actually, we're talking about two budgets today. The first one: the government's budget for 2011. There isn't one. At least, not the kind of formal budget you'd normally have. What's been happening is that Congress has passed
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 February 2008 Nigeria's leading environmental group has endorsed plans by the government to restrict the importation of used computers, in an attempt to control a growing e-waste disposal problem. From Abuja, Gilbert da C
By Phuong Tran Dakar 14 February 2007 In Ivory Coast, lawyers for the victims of last August's toxic waste dumping incident say the millions of dollars a Dutch company offered the government Tuesday is not enough, and they will move forward with thei
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 28 October 2006 More than two months after hundreds of thousands of liters of toxic waste were dumped in Ivory Coast's main city, a massive cleanup operation is nearing completion. Waste removal experts work to remove hazardous
AS IT IS 2016-01-19 Sierra Leone Investigates Foreign Waste Agreement 塞拉利昂调查接收外国垃圾协议 The government of Sierra Leone is investigating an agreement to import waste from Lebanon. The agreement permits the import of non-hazard
AS IT IS 2016-08-10 Cold War Waste Could Reappear Due to Global Warming 全球变暖致美国冷战基地再现 Melting ice on Greenland could expose an unused U.S. military base that contains hazardous waste, scientists warn. Camp Century was built
Annie Leonard grew up in Seattle, Washington, spending her summers in the forests of the Cascade Mountains. With her school promoting environmental issues, she grew concerned about the increasing numbers of clear cuts - areas where all the trees have
Annie Leonard has dedicated herself to changing America's throw-away culture. The Berkeley, California resident has been obsessed with stuff for more than 20 years - both good stuff that is thrown out and toxic stuff that poisons the planet and its p
An aquatic robot is being tested in Japan ahead of being deployed into the damaged core of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The robot is able to locate and clear materials in places which are inaccessible to humans. Named Avexis - short for
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 September 2006 United Nations disaster-management experts have gone to Ivory Coast to help with the investigation of a toxic waste dumping incident that has left at least six people dead and thousands ill. ----- A man point
By Greg Flakus Mexico City, Mexico 07 April 2006 watch Waterless Toilet report At the recently held Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, hundreds of governmental agencies, international organizati
BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Smoking is a big problem in China, the world's largest tobacco consumer, and now the World Health Organization (WHO) wants tobacco warning labels to be more vivid. Experts said China's text warnings, such as Smoking is ha
HELSINKI, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A waste stack near the coast of the Baltic Sea is leaking considerable amount of phosphorous to the sea waters, Finnish environment ministry said on Wednesday. The Finnish Environmental Institute took samples from two ph
Beijing is considering listing smog as a meteorological disaster, but the move has been questioned. 北京正考虑将霾列为气象灾害,但此举引发了质疑。 The legal committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress started work on t
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 September 2009 The environmental group Greenpeace says it wants Dutch prosecutors to consider criminal charges against executives from international oil trading company Trafigura in connection with toxic waste dumped in Ivory
LANZHOU, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Gansu Province, home to the country's earliest nuclear base, plans to draft a new law on radioactive pollution control this year, the local government said Saturday. Lawmakers in the landlocked province
Commentator: We hear it a lot in the news these days: Recycle newspapers and save a tree. Collect bottles and cans so they can be reused in the manufacturing of new products. Protecting our delicate environment seems to be on the agenda of politician