UN: Sanitation Goals In The Dumps
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The world is meeting targets on improving access to clean drinking water, but falling behind on sanitation goals fixed at a summit four years ago, the United Nations said Thursday.
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The UN meets to discuss how to tackle the growing problem of dumping of electronic waste in Africa.
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The UN's food agency urges international help for nations struggling to dispose of stockpiles of unused pesticides.
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 12--Landfill, solid waste management site, environmental park -- call it what you will. Just don't call it a dump.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his hope to an international meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face the dire consequences of inadequate access to safe drinking water and basic
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The message sent by the Live Earth concerts -- "Clean up your act" -- is being aimed particularly at China, a UN representative says.
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(InfoWorld) - Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya. Delegates from about 120 governments gathered in Nairobi on Monday to begin week-long talks on how to reduce the use of toxic substances, such as lead, cadmium and mercury, found in PCs and cell phones, and to promote programs for recycling and re-using as many components as possible. The U.N. estimates that up to 50 million metric tons of "e-waste" are generated worldwide every year, representing more than 5 percent of all municipal solid waste. In the U.S. alone, as many as 20 million PCs are thrown out every year. A good chunk of that waste ends up in Africa and other developing countries, according to the U.N. Every month, more than 100,000 disregarded computers are entering the Nigerian port of Lagos alone, said U.N. Under-Secretary General Achim Steiner in a speech. Local experts estimate that up to 75 percent of the used PCs, TVs and phones sent from developed countries are unusable and end up in the landfills of developing countries, where the items are often burned, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals. On the table at this week's meeting are proposals to encourage manufacturers to take more responsibility for their products, from the design stage through the supply chain to final disposal. In a speech, Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto, executive secretary of the Basel Convention, which monitors hazardous waste, pointed to a partnership with several mobile phone manufacturers and operators, including Nokia Corp, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Vodafone Group PLC to develop programs for recycling and re-using the millions of mobile phones now sold worldwide every year.
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BERNE, Switzerland  - World soccer's governing body FIFA lags behind other international sports organizations when it comes to protecting the environment at major tournaments, the head of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) says.
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The rapid growth of slums in the  world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and  creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution  and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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More than one billion people drink  unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the  world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N.  agencies said on Thursday.
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SEOUL The forests in North Korea are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and the country&#39;s reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said on Friday in its first report on the
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Â· Millennium goals within reach for much of worldÂ· Unsafe water undermines educational reforms
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A new exhibition, "Loaded Out: Making a Museum," examines the history and significance of the city's Sanitation Department.
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Long-held silence over the taboo subject of toilets is taking its toll on global health and holding back developing countries, hygiene experts warned at a world toilet summit here.
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Desertification represents the "greatest environmental challenge of our times", the UN warns in a report.
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A decade of instability and conflict leaves an environmentally devastated Iraq, but the international community is moving to clean it up, as the United Nations announced Tuesday
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BEIJING - Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting Nov. 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital's lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.