Tag: pollution

Hanoi (Vietnam) (AFP) - Millions of exhaust-belching motorbikes zip through Hanoi's narrow streets every day fuelling its chronic air pollution, ...

Denpasar (Indonesia) (AFP) - Buckets of blooms adorn Yuvita Anggi Prinanda's sidewalk flower stall in Bali, but their perfume can't ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - South Africa risks thousands of premature deaths if the phase-out of coal plants is delayed due to ...

Antwerp (Belgium) (AFP) - Shipping was at a near-standstill in Belgium's port of Antwerp on Friday following an overnight oil ...

New Delhi (AFP) - Soaring black-market prices of cooking gas in India's capital are pushing poorer families back to wood ...

Antwerp (Belgium) (AFP) - Belgians living near a 3M plant called for justice Tuesday at the opening of a trial ...

Afşin (Turkey) (AFP) - Kaddafi Polat rarely mentions his own health after decades of breathing the polluted air blanketing his ...

Xushui (China) (AFP) - Almost a decade after China began curbing coal burning to stop thick winter smog, villagers in ...

Paris (France) (AFP) - A French ban on the production and sale of cosmetics and most clothing containing polluting and ...

Hanoi (Vietnam) (AFP) - Crouched between mountains of discarded plastic, Lanh strips the labels off bottles of Coke, Evian and ...