Full Coverage: Pollution

27.03.2006 New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says that it is time to lay emphasis on the impact that environment has on health as poor environment goes hand in hand with bad health. Experts have called for defining the environment-health research agenda, especially for the new school of public health.

25.03.2006 from EcoStreet blog:
Here's a great list - complete with links - showing how we can all make a difference. Everything from energy efficiency to eating...

24.03.2006 As the cost of natural gas continues to climb, wind-generated electricity is gaining ground as an affordable and renewable alternative, argues eco-economy guru Lester Brown. In fact, both rural communities and big-time players are beginning to take notice--and take advantage.

22.03.2006 The third annual April Fuels Day is just around the corner. Find out what you can do to help encourage the use of pollution-free alternatives by joining the Jumpstart Ford Campaign today!

21.03.2006 "Only in a Humpty-Dumpty world," would the Bush Administration's regulation easing clean air requirements for some 17,000 industrial facilities be allowed under the existing Clean Air Act, a federal appeals court said Friday.

21.03.2006 On the occasion of March 21, the Spring Day, the Ecologists’ Movement of Macedonia (DEM) presented its Annual Awards for 2005 and announced the start of the campaign for collection and recycling of plastic bottles and containers, organized under its activities to protect and conserve the environment.

19.03.2006 from Treehugger:
"Driving a big SUV is like smoking - it is becoming socially unacceptable," says Lloyd Alter. When will this happen in the UK?

16.03.2006 from the BBC:
"To make the substantial cuts in emissions we are going to have to make, there are only two ways to do it - taxation or rationing." Domestic Tradable Quotas, personal pollution allowances, have to be the answer.

15.03.2006 Should the manufacturer of a product dubbed "toxic-cola" in India be a leading sponsor of the World Water Forum? Given its history of land and water pollution, Coca-Cola's sponsorship threatens the credibility of the entire forum, says Amit Srivastava.

14.03.2006 The unstopable technological development, in addition to the positive, shows us its extremely negative aspects. The ammount of electronic waste is growing at such a rate that many international environmental groups decided to raise the alarm, inviting both manufacturers and consumers, as well as the state institutions, to take urgent measures for control of the electronic waste. The electronics industry grows exponentially. Products such as TV sets, cellular phones, computers and computer accessories, photographic cameras, printers, etc., increase their share of total ammount of communal waste.

14.03.2006 from EcoStreet blog:
What have green tomatoes got to do with being able to take a cab in London without putting more pollution into the atmosphere?

13.03.2006 Villagers in the coastal belt of Orissa want to leave their village and their lands which they have tilled for generations simply because debilitating pollution from coalfields has rendered their fields unfertile, contaminated drinking water and has rendered air impossible to breathe. The only hitch in leaving their village is that the government is unwilling to rehabilitate them.

11.03.2006 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog:
How much fuel gets burned up by military aircraft on training flights?

09.03.2006 from Monbiot.com:
We are all killers... until we stop flying, says George Monbiot.

08.03.2006 Any chance of Australia significantly cutting its greenhouse gas emissions was called into question yesterday as the Federal Opposition joined the Coalition in endorsing coal as a long-term source of power.

08.03.2006 A coalition of 12 states, three major cities, one island government and several environmental groups Friday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not have to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.

03.03.2006 The fossil fuel economy is setting up ‘carbon offset’ and ‘carbon saving’ projects around the globe - projects that serve to justify continued use of coal, oil and gas and all the pollution and human rights and labour abuses that go with it. This new report describes what is happening on the ground and is enlivened with the voices of many actors and many authors. Have your say.

03.03.2006 Two Americans and one Briton are still being held hostage in Nigeria's turbulent oil-producing region by an armed group demanding compensation from Shell, local control of oil wealth, and the release of two ethnic Ijaw leaders.

02.03.2006 The activists of EkoKvarner environmental association continue with their activities related to the problem of LNG (liquid natural gas) terminal that is to be built, according to existing plans, in Omisalj. EkoKvarner activists believe that have achieved the primary goal of the campaign to realize the right to elementary debate on the location of the terminal with the local population.

02.03.2006 As much as 10–40% of the air pollutants emitted in the Pearl River Delta region in China, one of the world’s fastest growing industrial areas, can be tied to exports, a new report shows.