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 by AFP Staff Writers Rome (AFP) Feb 19, 2022
Italy's coastguard has spotted a "possible spill" from the still-burning ferry off the coast of Corfu, the environment ministry said on Saturday. The Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia was carrying an estimated 800 cubic metres of fuel and 23 tons of "corrosive dangerous goods," the ministry said in a statement. At least 12 people remain missing from the ferry, which caught fire overnight Thursday to Friday as it was en route from Greece to Italy. "A possible spill has been noticed" after a fly-over by an aircraft of the coastguard, said the ministry which changed its name to the ministry of ecological transition last year and broadened its purview. An Italian coastguard ship was already on site equipped with anti-pollution devices, it added. The ferry was officially carrying 290 people, the ship's owner, Grimaldi Lines, has said. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
Plastic, chemical pollution beyond planet's safe limit: study Stockholm (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and production caps are urgently needed, scientists have concluded for the first time. There are an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up in the environment. "The impacts that we're starting to see today are large enough to be impacting crucial functions of planet Earth and its systems", Bethanie Carney Almroth, co ... read more
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