Solid waste import bans
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced yesterday that China will ban imports of 32 types of solid waste in its latest move to reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid waste,
Shanghai Daily (China)
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Nearly 100,000 people affected by floods in India's Assam
NEW DELHI, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Flooding in India's northeastern state of Assam has affected nearly 100,000 people, officials said Monday. On Sunday officials said two people died in the state. "One
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China mulls removing certain captive-bred animal populations from state protection list
Some animal populations, bred under controlled conditions through mature techniques, could be removed from China's special state protection list and regulated differently from wild populations, according
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Shandong rewards cities for improved air quality
JINAN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- East China's Shandong Province is incentivizing cities to improve air quality by giving cash rewards to those that make progress and fining those that don't. In the first
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5.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Andaman Sea, no causalities reported
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake occurred near the Andaman Islands west of Thailand early Wednesday, no causalities were reported. According to the Seismological Bureau of Thai Meteorological Department,
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China to step up regulation on GM crops
The Ministry of Agriculture on Monday vowed to beef up its supervision over genetically modified (GM) crops in order to protect human health, ecology and the environment. Agricultural authorities at
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Dust data to be delivered direct to app
PEOPLE living in Shanghai will soon be able to check the level of construction dust in the air via a smartphone app, an official said yesterday. The new service will be developed as part of a program
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Floods kill two, displace hundreds in SW Tanzania
Two people have been confirmed dead while hundreds of others have been rendered homeless in Tanzania's southwest district of Kyela following a continuous downpour that hit the area for almost one week,
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Antimalarial resistance to drug unable to spread by mosquitoes: study
In a study they might be helpful for malaria control, scientists said Thursday that resistance to the antimalarial drug atovaquone cannot be passed on by mosquitoes. Atovaquone was introduced in 2000
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Australia to host southernhemisphere's 1st ocean acidification conference
MELBOURNE, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Australia will hold the first "Ocean in a High CO2 World" symposium hosted in the southern hemisphere, with world-leading experts assembling to discuss solutions to the
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Spain's capital above WHO pollution levels for 2015
Data published by the town hall here on Tuesday shows the Spanish capital registered levels of pollution above those fixed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for "all primary contaminants" except ozone