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UN Secretary-General Ecuadorian Maria Fernanda Espinosa announced her intention to step up the collective fight against the pollution caused by plastic waste, which affects people all over the planet. 

"80 percent of plastics end up in the oceans, between 8 and 12 million tons each year," said Espinosa at a press conference.

Locals living the Black Sea village of Meşeköy, once named Petran, have again this year taken to riding on primitive boards they made from planks of wood.

The sixth floor of the Tophane Clock Tower in the western province of Bursa has been covered with PVC, a type of synthetic plastic, as part of its restoration.

At the moment, the draining of fuel from the shipwreck of Mopang near Sozopol is postponed because of strong wind. In control drilling of one of the tanks, fuel leaked out under high pressure.

Sofia. Preparations are underway to remove the fuel oil from the sunken ship near Sozopol, work will begin when the weather conditions allow it, the head of Maritime Administration Burgas, Zhivko Petrov, told Focus News Agency. The preparations include a diving chamber, a storage area for bottles, compressors, auxiliary boats, etc.

A Turkish teen has died after inhaling gas lighter, becoming the latest victim of a dangerous trend that experts issued warnings about.

Searing heat has devastated wheat fields across northern Europe while a combination of dry conditions and extreme rain in the Black Sea have hit output estimates, with prices soaring on fears of further crop damage.

On Thursday and Friday at Lavrio in Attica, 27 partners, including some leading European universities, will be presenting the HYDROUSA project, which is getting off the drawing board and into the field this month.

Investors interested in checking the financial data of the Public Power Corporation plants at Meliti and Megalopoli that are up for sale will have two months at their disposal.

However, it is common knowledge that the visit to the data rooms is not going to lead to any significant changes to the original estimate about a negative to very-high-risk investment.

NEW DELHI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- India is facing its worst ever water crisis so far in its history, warned a report prepared by Indian government's ace thinktank and policy adviser the National Institution for Transforming India, or NITI Aayog, on Friday.