AFP - Heavily polluted Hong Kong will try to comply with new World Health Organisation guidelines on better air quality by 2009 in its first review in 20 years, a press report says.

Reuters - Chile's capital, home to some of Latin America's foulest air, is losing ground in its battle against pollution after hard-won gains in the 1990s.

AFP - Environmentalists hope to turn out the lights of Hong Kong's dazzling skyline in a protest aimed at telling the world about the city's rapidly worsening air pollution, organisers have said.

AFP - A Hong Kong power supplier said it has submitted a proposal to build the city's first wind farm, as part of a plan to help reduce the region's chronic air pollution.

AP - The federal government may use California's strict pollution rules for lawnmowers and other small-engine machines as a national standard, a top Environmental Protection Agency official said Thursday.

Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear an appeal by a dozen states, three cities and a number of environmental groups seeking to force the U.S. government to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks.

AP - The murky green Dasha River has been dirty for decades, polluted by coal mines and steel mills that make it fit only for watering livestock and crops downstream.