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/ 26 September 2009
Strike Matsepe used his savings to buy a plot of land near the country’s biggest steel mill, hoping it would become a thriving farm in his old age.
Robot fish developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off the north of Spain to detect pollution.
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/ 15 October 2008
Water coming out of Durban’s taps is safe to drink and residents do not need to fear reported mercury contamination at Inanda Dam, say authorities.
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/ 13 October 2008
The Eastern Cape health department has warned residents of the Mqanduli area that river water has been contaminated with sewage.
"Black cloud", a mass of polluted air that darkens the skies of the Egyptian capital in October and November, is less severe this year.
Millions of people will die from respiratory illness and lung cancer in China if nothing is done to reduce smoking and fuel burning indoors.
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/ 17 September 2008
Radioactive waste outside mining areas in the catchment of the Wonderfonteinspruit poses no risk to the public, according to experts.
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/ 4 September 2008
Water tests have raised questions over accusations made against Anglo Platinum that it was polluting the drinking water of two communities.
Robert Cabrales is preparing to take a bus-load of sightseers on a journey that he says aims to expose the city’s ”dirty little secrets”.
Australian mining giant Equinox Minerals is developing Zambia’s Lumwana Copper Mine to take advantage of strong prices for copper.
Man-made pollution is spreading a growing number of suffocating dead zones across the world’s seas with disastrous consequences for marine life.
The tiny village if Kamikatsu, in the densely wooded mountains of Shikoku island in south-west Japan, has a new obsession: rubbish.
Haze that has covered Beijing for the last few days cleared on Tuesday as rain fell 10 days before the Olympics begin.
Olympic host city Beijing was shrouded in haze on Monday 11 days before the Games begin, raising anxieties about whether it can deliver clean skies.
Beijing was blanketed in smog on Sunday, as a senior Chinese environmental official warned more measures might be needed to clear the capital’s air.
Traffic in China’s capital was lighter on Monday but hazy skies still hovered over the Olympic host city 18 days before the Beijing Games.
Traffic restrictions came into force in Beijing on Sunday in a last-ditch attempt to turn the smoggy city into a pollution-free venue for the Games.
Beijing’s biggest single source of pollution has been sacrificed to the Olympics and, this week, media were invited to a triumphant autopsy.
Climate change is driving a new scramble for resources, but there are fears adaptation could divert money from development, writes Nicole Johnston.
The future of northern Alberta’s aspen and pine woods, its rivers and animals are in doubt as the world’s greatest modern oil rush accelerates.
Mining has been blamed for the death of more than 50 crocodiles along the Olifants River in Kruger National Park in the past month.
The people of Hou Wang Ge Zhung believe that their small community, an hour’s drive from Beijing, has joined the ranks of China’s ”cancer villages”.