Full Coverage: Pollution

23.12.2004 The European oil pipeline that transport Caspian oil may take a new route – from Romania, through Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, to its final destination in Trieste, Italy, with one line branching off in Gorski Kotar, Croatia.

23.12.2004 As this graphic shows, ten countries--United States, China, Russia, Japan, India, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, South Korea and Italy--produced 54 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2002. Click here for more data on carbon emission.

21.12.2004 Greenhouse gases keep earth warm and livable by keeping some of the sun’s warmth from reflecting back into space. In augmented levels, they push global temperature to artificially high levels and alter the climate.

21.12.2004 A new European Union supported website highlights successful case studies of industries that have devised innovative and economical ways of judicious water use. The website intends to help industries in optimising water usage by sharing knowledge.

20.12.2004 Campaigners in Edinburgh are warming up for February's referendum on transport policy - a chance for people who do not own a car to have an equal say with the drivers.

15.12.2004 Peru's most prominent human rights award has been given to Father Marco Arana, the mediator in a dispute between an international mining company and community members who did not welcome the company's expansion into their region. It's the second time in three years the award has been given to people working in support of communities affected by mining.

13.12.2004 Concerned by impending toxic threat from discarded mobile phones, technology companies are now developing biodegradable mobile phone casings in collaborating with environmentalists.

13.12.2004 Deaths from brain diseases such as Parkinson's are increasing sharply in the UK. It's not just because we are living longer.

13.12.2004 India's Silicon Valley is set to choke under a heap of e-waste generated by obsolete computers and electronic components containing harmful toxic substances, according to industry estimates.

13.12.2004 India's Silicon Valley is set to choke under a heap of e-waste generated by obsolete computers and electronic components containing harmful toxic substances, according to industry estimates.

09.12.2004 States rights don't seem to be very important to the White House when it comes to making sure the auto industry doesn't have to contend with tougher state environmental regulations, writes an environmental watchdog group.

08.12.2004 Glaciers are melting, mercury is rising and the sea is restless. Signs of climate change are all around us and science attests to it.

06.12.2004 Ecologistas garantem que uma fábrica de celulose provocou a morte em massa de cisnes no sul do Chile. Os acusados dizem que os verdes carecem de provas.
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06.12.2004 Amnesty International is urging people around the world to put pressure on Dow Chemicals and the Indian Government to clean up the site and compensate the affected communities in Bhopal, who continue to suffer from heavy pollution even two decades later.

03.12.2004 On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked enough toxic gas to kill approximately 25,000 people. 150,000 survivors--who have experienced chronic physical and mental illness as a result of the leak--have gained new allies of late in human rights advocates and U.S. stockholders as they work to convince the company responsible to clean up and pay up--20 years later.

03.12.2004 "My mother picked up my little brother and wrapped him up in her shawl while I clung to her kurta from behind, and we started running. Outside, we saw all the neighbors running. The sky over us was turning red. I hadn't been able to put on any slippers." Bhopal resident Tahira Sultan and Paul Damore, an American who grew up downstream from a Dow Chemical plant, talk about growing up in dangerously polluted towns and their subsequent lives of activism.

02.12.2004 Even twenty years later, the victims of the poisonous gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal suffer health problems due to the ill-effects of the gas.

01.12.2004 The auto industry has hired high-powered lawyers and lobbyists to try to derail California's new law mandating that automakers cut car pollution by 30% by 2016 using existing technology. A coalition of environmental groups is urging citizens to write letters demanding the industry drop its lawsuits and get to work on implementing new clean car technology ASAP.