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Big money spent, but waste not treated
13/05/2014|12:01:14
Waste treatment remains a big headache for local authorities in the Mekong Delta. While open dumping on the ground pollutes the environment, modern waste treatment plants have been left idle.
Philippines to charge 'poachers' despite China warning
13/05/2014|08:12:21
Philippine prosecutors said on Monday they would charge nine Chinese fishermen arrested in disputed East Sea waters with environmental crimes, despite Beijing's warning of a dire effect on relations.
Farmers to be compensated for pollution
12/05/2014|10:29:26
The head of a rogue waste-treatment company who earlier admitted dumping polluted waste water into a canal in the southern province of Dong Nai, has agreed to pay compensation to an extra 106 farmers ignored in the first settlement.
We can't count on plants to slow down global warming
12/05/2014|08:03:44
Increased future plant growth will not reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere as much as we thought; so finds a new study published in Science. This means that we will not have that get-out-of-jail-free card that some of us were counting on.