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24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management in South-East Asia Region
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5526. January 7, 2012 | The Times of India (TOI)
DRI seizes 10 chemical containers of city firm, India
AHMEDABAD: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials has seized 10 containers of a city-based chemical company for alleged misdeclaration of contents inside... 5527. January 7, 2012 | theage.com.au
Call for smokers to butt out as beaches become 'toxic' ashtrays, Australia
MELBOURNE'S beaches are littered with millions of cigarette butts, causing harm to the environment, wildlife and beachgoers, a recent study conducted by the Port Phillip Eco Centre has found... 5528. January 7, 2012 | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
6 sites in West Oahu emit toxic chemicals, USA
Six of the 10 facilities in Hawaii that released the highest volumes of toxic chemicals into the environment in 2010 were in West Oahu, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said... 5529. January 7, 2012 | Journal.com
Toxic emissions rise in N.C., USA
CHARLOTTE -- The volume of toxic chemicals N.C. industries released into the air, water or land rose nearly 4 percent in 2010, reversing a four-year trend of declining emissions... 5530. January 6, 2012 | Bloomberg
Toxic releases in U.S. increase by 16% in 2010, USA
Toxic chemicals released into the environment by U.S. industry jumped 16 percent in 2010, led by an increase in debris from mining metals such as zinc and gold, the Environmental Protection Agency said in an annual report... 5531. January 5, 2012 | Shanghai Daily
1 missing, 3 injured in chemical plant explosion, China
One worker is missing and three others were injured after an explosion ripped through a chemical plant in Shanghai's Songjiang District early this morning... 5532. January 5, 2012 | Idaho Stateman
Toxic chemical releases up in Idaho, USA
A report released Thursday from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that toxic chemical releases into the air, land and water rose 17 percent in 2010 in Idaho... 5533. January 5, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Man and Nature Exhibition with a Focus on Environmental Sustainability Opens at the UNEP Headquarters, UNEP
The exhibition demonstrates the role of art as an outreach tool for increasing public awareness with a focus on the environmental pillar of sustainable development, as the world heads towards Rio+20 in June 2012... 5534. January 4, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
2012: Road to Rio+20 - Fresh Opportunity to Scale-Up Sustainable Development?, UNEP
2012 also marks the 40th anniversary of the environment programme of the UN... 5535. January 4, 2012 | TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk
Study: Air pollution to blame for drought and flooding, UK
With the movement towards green cars partly spurred by the need to eliminate harmful emissions and air pollution, it’s interesting to note that there is arguably even more reason to cut them out... 5536. January 4, 2012 | Irish Examiner
Toxic waste may stay on island forever, Ireland
THE 500,000 tonnes of toxic waste dumped in Cork harbour may never be removed from Haulbowline Island — and instead could be just taped up with an environmental seal, according to Marine Minister Simon Coveney... 5537. January 3, 2012 | The Huffington Post
Mercury Pollution Reduction Standards Protect Children's Health and the Great Lakes, USA
As we begin this new year, let's recognize an important long-delayed success finalized by the Obama Administration in late 2011... 5538. January 3, 2012 | CBC News
Chemical accident shuts down farm implement plant,
Several employees of a Regina-area factory needed medical attention Tuesday following an accident involving chemicals... 5539. January 3, 2012 | The Daily Star
Toxic alcohol kills 17 in S India, India
At least 17 people have died from drinking toxic home-brewed alcohol in southern India, an official said yesterday, just weeks after a similar incident claimed 170 lives... 5540. January 3, 2012 | Contra Costa Times
Richmond Superfund site toxic pollution increasing, USA
Leonardo Bravo likes to fish on the Richmond shoreline because it relaxes him... 5541. January 3, 2012 | The Independent
Faulty breast implants contain toxic chemicals, scientists warn, UK
New warning from France as Government doctors in UK advise women to undergo surgical removal... 5542. January 3, 2012 | Scotman.com
Climate change in Scotland ‘to kill the curlew’, UK
AN ICONIC bird linked to Scotland’s wild moors will struggle to survive the impacts of climate change, new research suggests... 5543. January 3, 2012 | The Chronicle Herald
Lead poisoning threatens eagles, UK
Birds getting sick, dying after eating bullet fragments in animals, vet says... 5544. January 3, 2012 | TheState.com
Poisoning cases illustrate dangers of pesticide misuse, USA
Pesticide-laced globs of meat are strategically located to get rid of animals that people view as pests, but the concoctions are as deadly as land mines and equally indiscriminate... 5545. January 3, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEP's Year in Review 2011: July to December, UNEP
2011 has proven to be a defining year for the environmental pillar of sustainable development as the world heads towards Rio+20 in June 2012... 5546. January 2, 2012 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Plastic pollution ... from your washer?, USA
A lot more than soap and water and the dirt from your clothes might be going down the drain from your washing machine... 5547. January 2, 2012 | Recorderonline.com
County third in state in pesticide use, USA
Tulare County kept its place as the No. 3 county in terms of using pesticides, the Department of Pesticide Regulation reported Wednesday... 5548. January 2, 2012 | Reuters
Spain ageing nuclear plant may stay open: report, Spain
Spain's incoming centre-right government may allow an ageing nuclear plant to stay open beyond a 2013 deadline for closing set by its Socialist predecessors, a newspaper report said on Monday... 5549. December 30, 2011 | thestar.com
Town warned to stay indoors over ‘dangerously high’ air pollution, Bosnia and Herzegovina
ZENICA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA—Officials in a central Bosnian town have warned citizens to stay indoors, as concentrations of a pollutant in the air are at a dangerously high level... 5550. December 30, 2011 | The Gulf Today
Chinese cooking oil found toxic, China
SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities have recalled cooking oil products made by three companies after finding they contained the same type of cancer-causing toxin recently found in milk, state media said on Thursday...
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