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Scottish Power will on Thursday end production at the country's last coal-fired power station, the company said. ...more |
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India must implement rules on printing larger health warnings on cigarette and other tobacco packs, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, days after a parliamentary panel called for reduction in the proposed warnings size to protect the industry. ...more |
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Plastic water bottles come with a higher price tag than most people realize, taking up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. ...more |
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In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years. ...more |
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Plastic bags less than 0.05 millimeters thick have been banned in Madagascar since October last year and a Malagasy company has been importing cassava starch to produce a biodegradable alternative. ...more |
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Dubai-based firm X-architects has completed a visitor center at the Wasit Natural Reserve, a vast area of land that was once a waste-water and landfill site. ...more |
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The World Bank has approved a $500 million loan to China to support financing of projects to help control air pollution in and around Beijing. ...more |
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Palau became the latest Pacific island nation to declare a state of emergency Wednesday, as the region struggles with an extreme drought that forecasters warn will not ease for months. ...more |
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The United States, facing sanctions for discriminating against Mexican tuna imports, is expanding tougher rules for labeling tuna '"dolphin-safe" on the rest of the world instead of easing up on Mexico. ...more |
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A fire in one of Mumbai's three rubbish dumps on Saturday has triggered a fall in air quality to "poor", the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board said. ...more |
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