Once home to rice farmers and their luscious green paddy fields, this Indonesian village is now a dump for truckloads of rubbish. As Indonesia looks to tackle the country’s growing...
German and Swiss scientists have published a study suggesting that microplastic is being blown vast distances through the air and dumped when it snows, underscoring the threat the growing form...
Thousands of cuttlefish have mysteriously washed up on shore in Chile’s Bahia Inglesa, amidst pollution fears in this coastal area that is one of the country’s main tourist hotspots. Locals...
A total of 79 Chinese cities have triggered air pollution alerts as severe winter smog covers wide swaths of the country, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday (December...
Pollution levels in New Delhi, the capital of India, are over 50 times more than the allowed limits, raising people’s concerns over health especially for children. Four-year-old Avyan suffers from...
European Union lawmakers moved on Wednesday (October 24) to ban widely-used, throw-away plastics such as straws and cotton buds, and put a greater burden on manufacturers to recycle in...
MANILA, Philippines — La Trinidad, Benguet Mayor Romeo Salda has signed the Executive Order No. 05-2018 which declares Thursdays a “car-less” day. This serves as support to the government’s efforts to...
AKLAN, Philippines — The local government of Aklan has presented its six-month action plan for the rehabilitation of Boracay. This is in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to clean...
MANILA, Philippines —The Malay Municipal Engineering Office and the Municipal health officer inspected the drainage of a hotel to determine if it properly connects with the sewerage system of Boracay....
China’s capital Beijing imposed stringent measures to curb output of heavy industry as plunging temperatures spurred heating demand. This, after Beijing, issued its first major smog alert of the winter...
