THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles off the east coast of England. This set off a series of large explosions and a huge plume of blackContinue Reading
PLEDGES FOR CLEAN AIR Efforts that tackle pollution’s effects, rather than its source, miss the point, said Ahmad Ali Gul at Lahore’s University of Management and Technology. “It’s like when you have a bathtub and it’s overflowing and it’s creating a huge mess, do you first grab a towel orContinue Reading
PARIS: A new round of negotiations for an international treaty on reducing global plastics pollution will be held in Geneva in August, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Monday (Mar 3). A previous round of negotiations – tasked with hammering out a legally binding treaty – ended withoutContinue Reading
