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| May. 10 |
Hawaii |
Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark
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| May. 6 |
Arctic |
Mercury link to Arctic fox decline
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Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'
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| May. 4 |
Belgium |
Train with chemicals derails in Belgium
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| Apr.10 |
USA |
High levels of lead found in US rice |
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| Apr.8 |
Louisiana |
Gulf of Mexico can 'self-deep-clean' |
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| Mar.12 |
Shanghai |
China river pig toll nears 6,000 Officials say the number of pig carcasses found in Shanghai's Huangpu River has risen to nearly 6,000
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| Mar.11 |
Shanghai |
Hundreds of dead pigs fished from Chinese river |
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| Feb.28 |
Japan |
Report outlines Fukushima's radiation toll
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| Feb.22 |
Pacific Northwest |
Washington State nuclear waste tanks leaking |
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| Jan.22 |
France |
Bid to stop French foul gas leak |
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| Jan.12 |
Beijing |
Beijing pollution at hazard level
Air pollution in the Chinese capital Beijing has reached levels judged as hazardous to human health
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| Oct.26 |
Northern Japan |
Fish off Fukushima still contaminated |
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| Oct.9 |
South Korea |
Toxic leak in South Korea sickens thousands |
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| Oct.2 |
Australia |
Half of coral lost from Barrier Reef |
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| Jul.21 |
Northern Japan |
Japan to probe Tepco 'cover-up' |
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| Mar.2 |
Louisiana |
BP reaches $7.8bn oil spill deal
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| Dec.15 |
Northern Japan |
Japan declares Fukushima stable
Engineers have brought the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a 'cold shutdown condition', nine months after the earthquake and tsunami
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| Dec.10 |
Japan |
Radioactive water leaks in nuclear plant |
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| Nov.14 |
Northern Japan |
Japan radiation 'unsafe for farming'
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| Nov.1 |
Northern Japan |
Fukushima cleanup may take decades |
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| Oct.12 |
New Zealand |
'Massive' oil spill clean-up underway |
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| Oct.10 |
New Zealand |
Spill NZ 'worst marine disaster' |
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NZ ship oil spill 'significant'
Map of Tauranga New Zealand Efforts to recover oil from a ship carrying nearly a half million gallons of heavy fuel that ran aground after striking a reef
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| Oct.9 |
New Zealand |
NZ races to empty oil spill ship |
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| Oct.8 |
New Zealand |
'Serious questions' over NZ spill |
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| Jul.15 |
Japan |
Ohi nuclear reactor shuts down after fault |
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| Jul.12 |
Antarctica |
Japan 'to continue' Antarctic whaling |
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| Jun.17 |
Northern Japan |
Fukushima water clean-up halted |
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| May.31 |
Northern Japan |
Japan 'underestimated risk' - UN |
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| May.30 |
Global |
New record in world CO2 emissions |
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| May.23 |
Iceland |
Icelandic ash drifting southwards |
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| May.4 |
Northern Japan |
Workers enter Fukushima reactor |
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| Apr.20 |
United Kingdom |
BP sues Gulf oil spill companies |
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| Apr.17 |
Northern Japan |
Reactors could take 9 months to stop |
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| Apr.16 |
Japan |
Nuclear crisis could last 2-3 more months |
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| Apr.12 |
Northern Japan |
Japan disaster now on Chernobyl level| Japanese authorities 'provisionally' declared the country's nuclear accident a level-7 event on the international scale for nuclear disasters. The amount of radioactive iodine released by the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant was ... | |
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| Apr.11 |
Japan |
Japan raises nuclear crisis level |
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| Apr.5 |
Northern Japan |
Radioactive water leak stopped
The leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has stopped
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Water radiation millions of times over limit An attempt to plug a leak of highly radioactive water from a nuclear reactor has shown a significant difference, despite the material not setting
| Tokyo Electric: an attempt to plug the leak had shown a 'significant difference,' despite the material not setting as hoped.
The company had injected a silica-based polymer, 'liquid glass' to reduce the leak
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| Apr.4 |
Northern Japan |
Japan dumps radioactive water in sea
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| Mar.31 |
Northern Japan |
Warning on Japan evacuation zone |
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| Mar.30 |
Northern Japan |
Japan to scrap stricken reactors |
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| Mar.29 |
Northern Japan |
Workers scramble to prevent water leak |
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| Mar.28 |
Northern Japan |
New radiation leak at Japan plant |
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Radioactive water found outside plant
Map of Fukushima Japan| Water found in a tunnel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has alarmingly high radiation readings | |
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| Mar.27 |
Northern Japan |
Japan radiation report 'mistaken' |
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| Mar.26 |
Northern Japan |
Sea radiation 1,250 times normal |
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| Mar.25 |
Northern Japan |
Reactor core might be leaking
Authorities raised the prospect of a likely breach in the all-important containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the stricken nuclear power...
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| Mar.24 |
Northern Japan |
Plant workers' radiation exposure high |
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| Mar.23 |
Tokyo |
Tokyo tap water not safe for infants |
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| Mar.22 |
Japan |
Japan tests food, seawater for radiation |
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| Mar.20 |
Northern Japan |
Cooling efforts at nuclear reactor |
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Food products limited from nuclear area
Japan slapped restrictions on some food produced in two provinces around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
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| Mar.18 |
Northern Japan |
Japan raises threat level at nuclear plant
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised the level for the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Friday from a 4 to 5
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| Mar.16 |
Northern Japan |
Water dumped on Japan nuclear plant
Helicopters dumped water on and near the Nos. 3 and 4 units at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to halt the nuclear accident
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US alarm over Japan atomic crisis |
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| Mar.15 |
Northern Japan |
New fire fuels nuclear fears in Japan
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Staff withdrawn from Japan plant |
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| Mar.14 |
Northern Japan |
Radiation fears after Japan blast |
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Meltdown alert at Japan reactor
Map of Fukushima Japan| Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant, which has been rocked by a second blast in three days. | |
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| Mar.11 |
Northern Japan |
Radioactive fears rise at Japan plants |
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| Feb.17 |
Antarctica |
Japan to bring whaling boats home |
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| Feb.14 |
Ecuador |
Huge fine in Amazon pollution case |
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| Jan.5 |
Washington |
Cost cuts 'led to BP oil spill' |
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| Dec.15 |
Washington |
U.S. to sue BP over Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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| Nov.9 |
Washington |
Gulf oil spill firms 'complacent' |
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| Oct.7 |
Hungary |
Hungarian sludge reaches Danube
Map of Ajka Hungary Toxic red sludge from a spill at an industrial plant in Hungary has reached the River Danube
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| Sep.19 |
Louisiana |
Gulf well permanently plugged, U.S. says
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| Aug.6 |
Moscow |
Muscovites struggle to breathe The acrid smoke, from thousands of square miles of wildfires, drove carbon monoxide levels in Moscow 5 times higher than what is considered ...
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| Aug.4 |
Louisiana |
Majority of BP spill 'dealt with' |
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| Aug.3 |
Louisiana |
BP starts 'static kill' on well
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| Jul.24 |
Louisiana |
Oil spill vessels return to site |
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| Jul.18 |
Louisiana |
Seepage detected at oil spill site |
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| Jul.17 |
Louisiana |
BP oil well 'withstands pressure' |
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| Jul.15 |
Louisiana |
BP says oil has stopped leaking BP says it has temporarily stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking well, the first time the flow has stopped since an explosion
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| Jul.13 |
Louisiana |
BP starting pressure test on well |
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| Jul.12 |
Louisiana |
BP installs new sealing cap on leaking well |
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| Jul.9 |
Louisiana |
BP in fresh bid to plug oil leak |
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| Jun.29 |
Louisiana |
Hurricane hits Gulf oil clean-up
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| Jun.20 |
Louisiana |
BP told rig safety gear 'broke earlier' |
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| Jun.16 |
U.S. Congress |
US Congress set to grill BP chief
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| Jun.15 |
Washington |
Obama in national address on oil
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| Jun.10 |
Louisiana |
Oil leak was 'greater than estimated'
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| Jun.4 |
Louisiana |
BP fits cap but yet to stop leak in Gulf
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| May.30 |
Washington |
Oil leak 'worst US environment disaster'
White House energy adviser Carol Browner: The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the worst environmental disaster the US has faced
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Louisiana |
'Top kill' BP operation to halt oil leak fails |
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| May.27 |
Louisiana |
Work resumes to plug US oil well
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| May.26 |
Louisiana |
BP says 'top kill' plug going to plan |
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| May.24 |
Washington |
US toughens talk over Gulf spill |
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| May.12 |
House of Representatives |
Deepwater Horizon preventer 'faulty'
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| May.8 |
Louisiana |
Setback in oil containment bid |
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| May.1 |
Louisiana |
Weather hampers oil slick clean-up |
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| Apr.29 |
Louisiana |
Oil reaches coast in US disaster
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| Apr.28 |
Louisiana |
New leak found in Gulf of Mexico oil spill |
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| Apr.25 |
Louisiana |
Efforts to stop leak after oil rig explosion
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| Apr.21 |
Louisiana |
Oil spill after blast on oil rig A 'catastrophic' explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico engulfed the drilling platform in flames
| At least 11 missing after blast. Massive oil spill is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history and among the largest oil spills in history. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher
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| Apr.3 |
Australia |
Alert over oil leak on Great Barrier Reef
The Shen Neng I, a Chinese ship, has run aground off north-eastern Australia, sparking an alert of an oil leak into the Great Barrier Reef
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| Sep.20 |
Ivory Coast |
Firm agrees Ivorian waste payouts |
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| May.19 |
Washington |
Obama to curb vehicle emissions |
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| Dec.8 |
Bali |
China leads cuts protests |
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| Dec.7 |
South Korea |
Tons of oil spill into Yellow Sea
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| Nov.11 |
Russia |
Russian oil tanker breaks in two |
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| Aug.1 |
USA |
Chinese-made toys recalled in US |
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| Jun.7 |
Germany |
G8 leaders 'agree climate deal' German Chancellor Angela Merkel: Leaders of the G8 nations have agreed to a compromise deal on tackling climate change
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| May.3 |
Thailand |
Deal struck at UN climate talks
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| Feb.1 |
Paris |
Warming 'very likely' human-made Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Climatic changes seen around the world are very likely to have a human cause
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| Dec.29 |
Arctic |
Ice shelf snaps, breaks free from Arctic |
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| Nov.2 |
Washington |
Report: Seafood faces collapse by 2048 |
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| Oct.30 |
London |
Warming 'may cause economic chaos'
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| Jun.22 |
Washington |
Study: Earth 'likely' hottest in 2,000 years |
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| Nov.24 |
Northeast China |
Toxic leak was 100 tonnes |
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| Nov.23 |
Northeast China |
Toxic slick flows into Harbin |
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| Nov.22 |
Northeast China |
Harbin water supplies cut off
Emergency measures are in force amid fears the city's drinking water could be contaminated after an explosion
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| Feb.16 |
Japan |
Kyoto Protocol comes into force The Protocol, which aims to slow global warming, has come into force 7 years after being agreed
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| Sep.29 |
Moscow |
Russia 'to ratify climate treaty'
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| Aug.9 |
Tokyo |
Deaths at nuclear plant |
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| Apr.17 |
Southern China |
Mass evacuation in Chongqing |
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| Dec.25 |
Southern China |
233 died in gas disaster
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| Nov.19 |
Spain |
Tanker sank spilling oil
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