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Kulsum Beghum sorts waste at a landfill in Dhaka. Her blood contains 650 microplastic particles per millilitre, according to an analysis funded by a waste pickers' union.
Aug 13, 2025
Britain's foreign minister David Lammy has referred himself to the environment watchdog after going fishing in a carp pond with US Vice President JD Vance without a licence, the UK foreign office said on Wednesday.
Aug 13, 2025
A multi-million pound conservation programme in England helped save 150 struggling species but "time is running out" to halt the decline, the head of Natural England, which led the initiative, said Wednesday.
Aug 13, 2025
Ottawa (AFP) Aug 13, 2025 - Canada said Tuesday it was deeply disappointed with China's decision to impose a temporary tax on Canadian canola, after Beijing said it had preliminarily concluded that Ottawa was dumping the crop onto its market.
Aug 13, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 - Northwestern University researchers have identified the nanoscale processes that allow organic matter to enhance soil's ability to hold water, even in extremely arid environments. The team fou
Aug 13, 2025
Typhoon Podul weakened to a severe tropical storm when it roared ashore in southeastern China early Thursday, state media said, after carving a path across Taiwan, shutting down businesses, grounding flights and knocking out power to thousands of homes.
Aug 13, 2025
Typhoon Podul pounded Taiwan on Wednesday, shutting down businesses in the south, grounding hundreds of flights and knocking out power for tens of thousands of households.
Aug 13, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Aug 13, 2025 - Australia on Wednesday hailed a breakthrough in efforts to sign a security agreement with Vanuatu, a deal that could dilute China's influence in the Pacific island nation.
Aug 13, 2025
Nearly 20,000 residents of a community in western Canada were on standby Wednesday as a wildfire engulfed a mountain overlooking the city of Port Alberni, the latest area threatened in the country's second-worst fire season on record.
Aug 13, 2025
Police in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq said they had arrested the leader of the main opposition party who would appear in court for a hearing on Wednesday.
Aug 13, 2025
Motivated by a sweltering heatwave, Parisians have been queueing up to take a dip in the river Seine after it reopened to bathers following a ban dating back…
Aug 13, 2025
Multiple countries at a UN meeting aimed at finalising a landmark global treaty against plastic pollution slammed the new draft text issued Wednesday as the talks descended into disarray.
Aug 13, 2025
Forget ice cream, sorbet or even the beloved Italian gelato -- when Romans swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the traditional "grattachecca".
Aug 13, 2025
The waters of El Salvador's Lake Suchitlan are normally busy with fishermen and tourists -- but this year, you'd be forgiven for thinking it isn't a lake at all.
Aug 13, 2025
Paris (AFP) Aug 12, 2025 - Ahead of the first UN climate summit in the Amazon, its president has defended the choice of Belem to host the conference where scarce affordable accomodation could exclude the very people Brazil says it wants to bring into the heart of the debate.
Aug 12, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Aug 12, 2025 - The European Union is ready to do a deal to land a groundbreaking treaty on plastic pollution, but not at any cost, the EU's environment commissioner insisted Tuesday.
Aug 12, 2025
