Apsara Authority, Coca Cola to work on waste recycling project
Authority to launch a pilot project on processing waste in the Angkor Temple complex.
Tag: pollution
Plastic transformed into green bricks
Bamboo Shoot Foundation starts to transform plastic waste into bricks for construction materials.
London coroner rules air pollution contributed to young girl’s death
A British legal first was made on Wednesday when a coroner ruled that air pollution contributed to the death of a nine-year-old girl with severe asthma who lived by a busy road.
China, India stress climate commitments at global summit
China and India edged forward in their commitment to lower carbon pollution.
Japan and UNDP sign $3 million grant to combat plastic waste pollution in Kingdom
A$3 million grant agreement to combat plastic pollution in the Kingdom.
Clean-up event and campaign for polluted Tonle Sap Lake
Ministry holds Sanitation Day to encourage people stop polluting the Tonle Sap Lake.
Rapid response: Authorities clear sand along NR2 after public outcry
Local authorities move swiftly to tackle dust pollution along National Road 2.
Residents living along NR2 fume over dust pollution
Residents and business folk along NR2 are seething over exposure to dust pollution.
Air pollution blamed for 500k newborn deaths
Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019: Study.
Air quality gets clean sweep with mobile testing
Environment Ministry launches VAQM, a sophisticated mobile testing unit.
What can be considered a Green Building?
Greening the building sector is one of the priorities to ensure sustainable development.
Britain to trial lower motorway speed limit to cut emissions
Speed limits on stretches of motorways in England are to be cut as a trial measure to reduce air pollution, Highways England announced Saturday.
Covid-19: An opportunity to overhaul our green policies
The two overriding emotions that India is witnessing these days, thanks to the Coronavirus-induced crisis, are fear and happiness.
Micro-pollution ravaging China and South Asia: Study
Top of 200 cities with highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and India.
Delhi’s air pollution is a failure of democratic governance
India hosts nine of the 10 most polluted cities in the world, with its capital Delhi ranking sixth. Delhi’s air pollution reflects both internal and regional governance failures.
Mekong countries agree to conduct plastic waste study
Officials from Mekong river countries agree to assess plastic waste pollution.
Global cost of air pollution $2.9 trillion a year: Report
The global cost of air pollution caused by fossil fuels is $8 billion a day.
German NGO says Volvo cheated over diesel emissions
Volvo SUVs emits massively higher levels of harmful pollutants than legally allowed.
Bangkok protesters demand action on unhealthy smog
Bangkok remains blanketed in unhealthy smog on Thursday morning.
Thai PM mulls banning cars whenever air quality is unsafe
The government is considering whether to impose a ban on personal car use in affected areas to cope with high levels of hazardous ultra-fine PM2.5 dust particles in the air, if levels exceed 100 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m³), twice the safety level.
More smog in Bangkok and elsewhere
Smog levels have worsened in Bangkok with high pollution readings in 34 out of Bangkok’s 50 districts, and the worst in Phra Nakhon, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration reported Monday morning.
Ministry reports air quality improvement
The Environment Ministry has reported the Kingdom’s air quality is steadily improving.
Government issues a directive to curb air pollution in Kingdom
Gov’t issues a directive ordering all institutions to prevent and reduce emissions.
More than 500 flights cancelled due to dense fog in New Delhi
More than 500 flights are delayed and six cancelled in the wake of a dense fog.
Designing an urgent blueprint for clean air
Air pollution is an urgent problem. But urgency should not translate to haste or a search for ineffective silver bullets.
Tinky – a new alternative to save Mother Earth
Phnom Penh is a small capital where its roads serve almost five million vehicles daily. The rising of gas consumption via these vehicles has become a major health concern to people living in the urban areas.
How India can stop burning crop waste in fields
The burning of stubble left in the fields of north India after the harvesting of paddy – rice with husk – causes a severe spike in air pollution.
Let’s curb pollution, a silent killer, for our children’s sake
Last Sunday, over 3,000 people turned up in the morning to protest against the growing air pollution in Gurugram. Protests are part of our society, so it was not surprising to see people turning up in the Leisure Valley Park.
Uber not a solution to pollution: study
Uber, rather than being part of the solution to urban transport may be adding to related problems: Study.
Dangerous haze shrouds Sydney
Sydney is shrouded in dangerous haze as smoke from bushfires blazing along the eastern seaboard sent pollution levels soaring.
