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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management
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3801. March 21, 2013 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UN Secretary-General Urges Greater Protection for World's Forests, USA
Mr. Ban noted that there are several threats to this ecosystem as urbanization and large-scale agriculture can exacerbate the rate of forest and biodiversity loss... 3802. March 21, 2013 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Saving the World's Forests: A Technology Revolution to Curb Illegal Logging, UNEP
Editorial by Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, and Andrew Steers, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute, to mark the International Day of Forests... 3803. March 21, 2013 | The Courier
River Lyon pollution that killed endangered mussels condemned, UK
An environmental body has condemned an “extremely serious case” of pollution in Perthshire that led to freshwater mussels being killed... 3804. March 20, 2013 | Spiegel.de
'Thrown Away by the Ton': EU Takes On Wasteful Fishing Methods, EU
Each day, fishermen throw away countless tons of unintentionally caught marine animals, many of them dead or dying. As the European Union prepares to ban the practice, biologists are developing methods of reducing what's known as by-catch... 3805. March 20, 2013 | Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Hong Kong tops world cities for light pollution, Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of the world’s worst cities for light pollution with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, researchers said Wednesday ahead of this year’s Earth Hour event... 3806. March 19, 2013 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Role of Environment in Tackling Poverty in Focus at Discussion on Post-2015 Global Development Priorities, Costa Rica
Current efforts to develop what is known as the 'post-2015 development agenda' include almost 100 national consultations in UN member states, as well as 11 thematic consultations on issues such as food security, access to water, and poverty reduction... 3807. March 18, 2013 | The Sunday Leader
Arsenic Kills Thousands While Health Ministry Slumbers, Sri Lanka
Although the Health Ministry denies that the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) slowly killing thousands in the North Central, Eastern, Wayamba, Ruhuna and Uva Provinces is due to pesticides and fertilisers containing arsenic... 3808. March 18, 2013 | Environmental Health News
Porous material could purify bioethanol with less waste
Chemists have debuted a unique, porous material they say separates ethanol from contaminants that lower its performance. Separating ethanol from the water and methanol that form during distillation currently takes many steps and lots of energy. The new material may simplify this procedure, creating a better fuel with fewer resources... 3809. March 17, 2013 | South China Morning Post
New environmental team booed amid pollution woes, China
Rare display of discord in NPC as committee that oversees country's widely criticised anti-pollution efforts gets large number of 'no' votes... 3810. March 17, 2013 | Reuters
China's new premier vows to tackle pollution, offers few details, China
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged on Sunday that his government would "show even greater resolve" in tackling China's festering pollution crisis, a source of increasing public fury... 3811. March 17, 2013 | Daily Express
Are toxins in our air killing us?, UK
TINY toxin particles in the air are causing clusters of cancer and dementia across Britain, campaigners fear... 3812. March 17, 2013 | The Korea Herald
Korea expands use of chemical castration, Korea
Courts will now be able to order chemical castration for all rapists from Tuesday, as part of imposing tougher penalties against sex crimes... 3813. March 17, 2013 | The Himalayan Times
Implications of air pollution, Pakistan
DR. ASHOK SHUMSHERE J.B.R. Though globally created pollutants from combustion, construction, mining, agriculture and warfare are becoming increasingly significant as a major contributor to overall pollution... 3814. March 17, 2013 | The Associated Press (AP)
Bill would phase out chemicals toxic to children, USA
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A bill before the Legislature would set up a state database to track the use of 19 chemicals in manufactured products shown to be harmful to children, and work with manufacturers to phase out use of the chemicals over five years... 3815. March 16, 2013 | OregonLive.com
Sealed 'black cells' stall radioactive waste cleanup at Hanford nuclear reservation, USA
RICHLAND, Wash. -- In the late-1990s, the Hanford nuclear reservation's British contractor designed the world's largest nuclear waste treatment plant around a fateful feature: "black cells."... 3816. March 16, 2013 | The Japan Times
Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, equivalent to 7,400 times the state-set limit deemed safe for human consumption... 3817. March 16, 2013 | The Denver Post
Hydrocarbon spill confirmed north of Parachute, USA
Oil-and-gas industry officials Saturday confirmed that state and federal regulators and a consortium of consultants have been at the scene of an underground plume of more than 1,500 gallons of hydrocarbons in western Colorado for more than a week... 3818. March 16, 2013 | JoongAng Daily
Yeosu chemical plant blast leaves 6 dead, 11 injured, South Korea
YEOSU, South Jeolla - An explosion from a tank storing high-density polyethylene erupted in a chemical plant in the southern coastal city of Yeosu, South Jeolla, Thursday night, leaving six workers dead and 11 wounded as of 5 p.m. yesterday... 3819. March 15, 2013 | 3 News
Three hospitalised after formalin spill, New Zealand
Around 30L of the toxic chemical formaldehyde has spilled at Wellington Hospital this afternoon... 3820. March 15, 2013 | Bangkok Post
Farm fires cause heavy pollution, Thailand
Much of northern Thailand as far south as Saraburi lay under a heavy blanket of haze and smoke Friday from hundreds of fires, mostly set on purpose by farmers in Thailand and Myanmar...

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