Doubling of MENA’s urban waste by 2025 strains government budgets 18/1/2016

The Middle East and North Africa’s urban waste volume doubling by 2025 is straining budgets and forcing governments to reinvent strategies, experts announced today in advance of EcoWaste’s MENA Municipalities Roundtable. ...more

Shock figures to reveal deadly toll of global air pollution 18/1/2016

The World Health Organization has issued a stark new warning about deadly levels of pollution in many of the world’s biggest cities, claiming poor air quality is killing millions and threatening to overwhelm health services across the globe. ...more

U.N. food agency calls for $50 million to help drought-ravaged Ethiopia 18/1/2016

Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations food agency to call on Friday for an emergency cash injection of $50 million to help the country overcome the crisis. ...more

Power to the poop: one Colorado city is using human waste to run its vehicles 18/1/2016

No matter how you spin it, the business of raw sewage isn’t sexy. But in Colorado, the city of Grand Junction is making huge strides to reinvent their wastewater industry – and the result is like finding a diamond in the sludge. ...more

Renault to face French emissions commission on Monday - Les Echos 18/1/2016

Officials from French carmaker Renault, whose offices were searched last week in a probe into vehicle emissions, will appear on Monday before a commission looking at whether carmakers have broken emissions rules, Les Echos newspaper reported on Saturday. ...more

AFED Secretary General Visits UNEP European Headquarters in Geneva 15/1/2016

AFED Secretary General Najib Saab met at the European Headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva officials from UNEP's Green Economy, Finance Initiative and Disaster Management branches. ...more

California temporarily curbing water to spare vanishing fish 15/1/2016

Saying current water conditions pose particular peril for the state's tiny, disappearing Delta smelt, federal officials moved Thursday to temporarily reduce water deliveries for farmers and millions of other Californians. ...more

EU Parliament delays vote on new car pollution limits 15/1/2016

The European Parliament on Thursday postponed a vote on new car pollution limits that could have killed a compromise agreed by EU members, as politicians argue over whether to seek tougher limits despite the delays that would entail. ...more

South Africa suffers driest year on record in 2015 15/1/2016

South Africa suffered its driest year on record in 2015, the national weather service said on Thursday, as a drought that has threatened the vital maize crop and hit economic growth showed no sign of abating. ...more

Chemicals threaten Europe's killer whales with extinction 15/1/2016

Killer whales in European waters face extinction due to outlawed but long-lived pollutants that also threaten several species of dolphins, according a study released Thursday. ...more