Full Coverage: Pollution

13.05.2008 WASHINGTON, May 13 (OneWorld) - What single silver bullet is simultaneously reducing air pollution and oil dependency, rolling back urban congestion, and fighting obesity?

13.05.2008 Allaying the fears of adverse environmental impact, Tata Power says its proposed 1,000 MW thermal power unit in eastern India will use the latest technology to keep the air, water and noise pollution well below the statutory limits. The company also intends to offer fair price to landowners.

09.05.2008 The UN should establish an agency to regulate international transport emissions, notably from highly polluting activities like aviation and shipping, said a climate change watchdog.

08.05.2008 Climate change is happening faster than predicted and the world could be as much as seven degrees hotter by the end of the century, an Australian scientist says.
From: Sydney Morning Herald

08.05.2008 The natural caves of Meghalaya's Jaintia hills are a rich repository of climate change taking place over a million years. Indiscriminate coal mining and unsuitable extraction techniques are now imperiling the biodiversity of this archaeological heritage.

08.05.2008 A study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest.
From: The Independent

06.05.2008 Kuluttajajärjestöt vaativat hallituksilta tiukempaa kontrollia, jotta myrkyllisiä ainesosia sisältävän elektronisen jätteen dumppaaminen kehitysmaihin saadaan kuriin.

06.05.2008 Policymakers should not succumb to pumping vast amounts of taxpayers money into the elusive promise of carbon capture and storage, concludes Greenpeace in a new report.

05.05.2008 The American Petroleum Institute has just begun running a feel-good commercial that argues "America's future" lies in drilling out domestic reserves of oil and natural gas.
From: Gristmill

01.05.2008 In the United States, even the people with the lowest usage of energy are still producing, on average, more than double the global per-capita average, an MIT class has estimated.
From: Science Daily