enough pollution to fill New York City’s Central Park with plastic waste as high as the Empire State building, wrote Seth Borenstein. After cigarette butts and food wrappers, plastic bottles and ...

Falling asleep with a cigarette could be a wake-up call you never hear again – that’s the burning message from Avon Fire & Rescue Service this week as it warns smokers of the fatal fire risks.

The world’s largest cigarette cleanup campaign is coming to Oshawa this month, part of a nationwide campaign to collect one million cigarette butts in April and another 500,000 in September.

In an investigation report released at the end of last month, the Taichung Fire Bureau confirmed the explosion was caused by gas and found evidence including cigarette butts, electrical wires, a gas ...

Dozens of hippopotamuses died as a result of anthrax poisoning at the oldest national park in Africa. A spokesperson confirmed with USA TODAY that at least 40 to 50 hippos were found deceased at ...

Fire crews have been responding to large wildfires ... barbeque or careless discarding of waste, including cigarette butts and glass. It is legal to light a campfire in Scotland, but those doing ...

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A man, who was caught littering for throwing a cigarette butt onto the ground in Chinatown, argued with National Environment Agency (NEA) enforcement officers, and subsequently, even appeared to ...

The incident was originally reported as a possible methane explosion, according to the Harrison/Taylor 911 Communications Center, and the Monday release said that the fire may have started when the ...

Local surfer and activist Taylor Lane stands with the “ciggy board” he designed using thousands of discarded cigarette butts ... of addressing this global pollution,” said Lane, who designed ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. FIRE crews were called to a pub in Wivenhoe after a discarded cigarette set fire to an outbuilding. Firefighters were called to the Rose and ...