Throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, contractors have dumped hundreds of tons of refuse into giant open-air trenches, doused the piles with fuel, and left them to burn. In the past 17 months, more than 500 veterans have contacted Disabled American Veterans, a national nonprofit serving vets, to report illnesses they blame on the burn pits.
Campaigners protesting against plans to dump radioactive waste at a landfill site are celebrating after the plan was turned down by councillors.
Hundreds of volunteers wearing gloves and face masks picked up trash along the Yamuna River on Wednesday to offset what they say is government inaction that has left the waterway a putrid sewer.
Shiyanzi in Xundian County of southwest China's Yunnan Province is at the middle of the worst drought to hit the province in a century. The local government has been rationing water to each household since January - a meager amount just enough to keep everyone alive.
A factory in Suzhou, China that supplies Apple and Nokia used the toxic solvent n-hexane in violation of local codes and without proper safety equipment.
The shrinking of River Nile has coincided with the drying up of the streams and rivers that feed Lake Victoria.
The amount of pollutants, including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, emitted from one of Beijing's two waste incineration plants is being released to the public in real time.
Water scarcity is likely to hit Uganda by 2035, according to the 2009 review report by the Ministry or Water and Environment. Per capita water availability will drop to 896 cubic meters per year, below the international threshold of 1,000 cubic meters.
Why China's family-run plastics recycling industry is not so clean and green.
The Indian villages of Bhaolaguri and Dalaigaon need a crusader who can keep them from the air and water pollution caused by Brahmaputra Carbon Limited and Bongaigaon Refinery and Petro-chemicals Limited (BRPL).
The Firefighters Union is putting the heat on flame Service bosses by demanding some flame engines be parked outside until they are no longer a health risk.
Taking serious note of the alleged exploitation of groundwater by Pepsi, a committee of the Kerala Assembly today recommended imposition of curbs on extraction of water by the multinational cola giant’s plant at Pudussery in Palakkad district.
The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing. Species in what is called the High Arctic dropped by a quarter between 1970 and 2004.
A rig manager has told an inquiry into Australia's worst offshore oil spill he should have picked up the failure of a cementing job down the well six months before it blew out.
Long famous as one of the world's most polluted megalopolises, gritty Mexico City is beginning to look the fruits of years of clean-up efforts and to breathe somewhat cleaner air, experts say.
Chinese authorities have defended the six-month detention of guide poisoning victims who were seeking medical care, saying the punishment was necessary for "public education".
Anti-asbestos activists from around the world called in Italy Tuesday for a worldwide ban on the hazardous building material, and for companies that use it to be brought to justice.
Unscrupulous contractors embezzled more than $1.3 million from the Government through its solid waste management programme on the Family Islands between July 2006 and April 4, 2007, The Tribune can reveal today.
The coal industry in the Hunter is booming again, thanks to higher prices and expanding port capacity. But is it too good to be true? When this minerals boom deflates, what damage will have been caused to the environment and the health of local populations?
Ten years after residents were evicted from the Giant Mine town site by then-owners Miramar Mining Corporation, the houses remain empty and in disrepair. The site is contaminated with arsenic trioxide from decades of smelting gold at the adjacent mine.
The world’s biggest rubbish dump keeps growing. The Great Pacific trash Patch is a floating monument to our culture of waste, the final resting place of every forgotten carrier bag, every discarded bottle and every piece of packaging blown away in the wind.
The UN and the Haitian government will start an urgent effort to move hundreds of thousands of people before the flood season begins next month - in an effort to prevent the spread of water-borne diseases.
Recycling is almost always the best way to receive rid of waste, even when it is exported abroad, according to the biggest ever report on the industry for the UK government.
For more than a decade, two opposing views of the technology used for genetically engineering crops have fought for the hearts and minds of the world's farmers. But now, what at best has been a standoff may be starting to shift in favor of biotech supporters.
A robust people's movement against a major nuclear power project has built up in a cluster of tiny villages on India's picturesque Konkan coast.
The Chilean justice system is to probe why a tsunami detection and warning system failed to more quickly alert citizens in a wake of a massive 8.8-magnitude quake last month.
Controversial plans to dump radioactive waste in a landfill site in Northamptonshire have been refused by a local council.
Two government press adverts which used nursery rhymes to lift awareness of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
The steel plant and coal mines closed around a decade ago, but it will be some time before anyone can call the island of Cape Breton completely green again.
Russian authorities have failed to take into account the environmental impact of building work ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, the UN has said.