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5441. March 7, 2012 | seeddaily.com
Heavy metal pollution causes severe declines in wild bees, USA
Wild bees are important pollinators and numerous studies dealing with pollination of wild plants and crops underline their vital role in ecosystems functioning...

5442. March 7, 2012 | Daily News
‘Regulations to prevent marine pollution in country’, Sri Lanka
Deputy Speaker Chandima Weerakkody presided, when Parliament met at 1 pm yesterday. After presentation of papers and oral questions, the House took up several regulations under the Marine Pollution Prevention Act for debate...

5443. March 6, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Win a Date with History Video Contest to Find Speaker for Rio+20 Conference, Netherlands/USA
Amsterdam/New York - The TckTckTck campaign and Climate Nexus today announced the launch of the "Win A Date With History" online video speech contest...

5444. March 6, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UN Millennium Development Goal Drinking Water Target is Met, USA/Swizerland
New York/Geneva - The world has met the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline...

5445. March 6, 2012 | Your Local Guardian
Pollution at dangerous levels near Lambeth town hall, UK
Air pollution in areas surrounding the town hall could be reaching ‘dangerous levels’, according to campaigners...

5446. March 6, 2012 | physorg.com
Natural levels of nitrogen in tropical forests may increase vulnerability to pollution, USA
Waterways in remote, pristine tropical forests located in the Caribbean and Central America contain levels of nitrogen comparable to amounts found in streams...

5447. March 6, 2012 | ABC Radio Australia
China fails on pollution targets, China
China has failed to meet its own pollution reduction targets for 2011 according to the country's own National Development and Reform Commission...

5448. March 5, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Expert Mission Studies Japan Earthquake Waste, Japan
UNEP has completed an international expert mission to areas affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The visit focused on the management of post-disaster debris...

5449. March 5, 2012 | Coventry Telegraph
Remove asbestos from schools call after death of former Leamington teacher, UK
A TEACHING union is calling for asbestos to be removed from all schools after a Leamington teacher died from an asbestos related disease...

5450. March 5, 2012 | Reuters
China's missed pollution goals show failure to change -NDRC, China
China's continuing reliance on heavy industry meant it failed to meet its own targets for cleaning its air and water in 2011, the head of the top planning agency told journalists on Monday...

5451. March 5, 2012 | BorneoPost Online
Fuel spill triggers water panic, Malaysia
MIRI: The price of bottled water skyrocketed to RM25 per box from the usual price of RM8 here and in Bekenu yesterday caused by panic buying as taps ran dry following the leakage of diesel from the pipeline of a premix plant...

5452. March 5, 2012 | Telegraph
Is aluminium really a silent killer?, UK
Twenty-four years ago, one of the UK’s most notorious pollution disasters occurred. At a water treatment works on the edge of Bodmin Moor, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the water supply serving the nearby town of Camelford...

5453. March 5, 2012 | The Associated Press (AP)
Japan cleans up radiation zone, unsure of success, Japan
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Workers in rubber boots chip at the frozen ground, scraping until they've removed the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of radioactive soil from the yard of a single home. Total amount of waste gathered: roughly 60 tons...

5454. March 4, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
First Wangari Maathai Day Celebrated in Conjunction with Africa Environment Day, Kenya
N'djamena - Nairobi, 3 March 2012 - The first Wangari Maathai Day was celebrated across the African continent, Saturday, in honour of the late environmental leader and Nobel Laureate...

5455. March 4, 2012 | The Japan Times Online
Food must be cleansed, Chernobyl expert warns, Japan
AOMORI — A Russian expert on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster has told a symposium in Aomori Prefecture that it is imperative to cleanse food of radioactive substances emitted by the Fukushima No. 1 power plant...

5456. March 4, 2012 | Forbes
China Getting Tougher On Polluters, China
China’s weak environmental policies are coming undone, and now the country is rewriting a new set of rules that will make regulations there much stricter than they have ever been...

5457. March 4, 2012 | The Seattle Times
Fight in Olympia over solutions for toxic runoff, USA
Environmentalists in Washington state are fighting last-minute legislative proposals they say will weaken rules aimed at keeping toxic pollution out of state waters...

5458. March 4, 2012 | The Salt Lake Tribune
Health impacts given short shrift in focus on Uinta Basin ozone?, USA
Vernal • Sandy Hansen calls it the "ostrich approach," the way leaders are addressing the health impacts of the Uinta Basin’s wintertime ozone problem...

5459. March 4, 2012 | Reuters
China lead pollution poisons 160 children in Guangdong: Xinhua, China
BEIJING (REUTERS) - Lead emission from factories and the natural environment in China's manufacturing heart of Guangdong has poisoned 160 children, Xinhua said on Sunday in the country's latest case of unfettered industrial toxins...

5460. March 2, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Nominations Open for 2012 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity, Canada
Montreal - Takuya Okada, Chairman of the AEON Environmental Foundation and Honorary Chairman of AEON Co., Ltd., announced today the opening of nominations for the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity...