Environmental toxicology

How polluted actually is our world and which sectors are placed close to the top of the list of the worst polluters?

Bulgaria is one of the countries in the EU with the highest death rate due to dirty air, a report from the European Commission said.

The number of children suffering from malignant diseases of blood and brain has significantly increased and since 1999 (the year of NATO's 78-day aerial war against Serbia) and has been rising each year.

The United Nations says curbing climate change will have huge benefits for people's health worldwide, reports AP. 

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that meeting the 2015 Paris accord's goals would significantly cut global air pollution, saving a million lives each year by 2050.

Bulgaria joined the first global multi-agency operation codenamed 30 Days at Sea. The purpose of the operation is to ascertain violations and crimes resulting to pollution of sea environment, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

A total of 276 law enforcement and environmental agencies from 58 countries took part at the operation between October 1 and 31, led by Europol.

As the Posidonia international shipping exhibition entered its second day on Tuesday, and on the occasion of World Environment Day, the Norwegian Embassy in Athens and a Greek conservation group organized a seminar on how to tackle marine pollution. 

Seventy-nine percent of freshwater bodies are polluted, the Chamber of Environmental Engineers has said in its report marking World Environment Day on June 5.

Manufacturing activity in China accelerated in March, according to official data released March 31, exceeding forecasts as factories increased production with the end of seasonal anti-pollution measures.

Rome, one of Europe's most traffic-clogged cities and home to thousands of ancient outdoor monuments threatened by pollution, plans to ban diesel cars from the centre by 2024, its mayor has said.

Virginia Raggi announced the decision on her Facebook page on Tuesday, saying: "If we want to intervene seriously, we have to have the courage to adopt strong measures".

Following the high level of air pollution recorded in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in the winter  months, BIRN Kosovo's TV show Jeta ne Kosove on Thursday summarise ten years of reporting on this problem and concluded that the damage to people's health was the biggest cost that citizens are paying.