Air and sea pollution from fires in oil tanks in Sevastopol, Crimea. - VIDEO

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China sees less acid rain in the first of 2015

China observed less acid rain in the first half of this year, according to a communique released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Monday.

Rescuers put out fires at three tanks at burning oil depot near Kyiv. ("There are no noxious emissions in the atmosphere...")

Rescue workers have managed to cool down and put out fires in three tanks, one of which was held oil, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine wrote on Facebook page on Wednesday afternoon.

Oil depot fire in Ukraine may cause acid rain (environmentalist)

Acid rain may fall in Ukraine and some European countries following a fuel depot fire outside Kiev, a Ukrainian environmentalist said on Tuesday.

We need a new revolution (Janez Potočnik)

European Commission, New Environmentalism Summit, Brussels, 3 June 2014:

Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment: 

"Good afternoon everyone, thank you James.

I hope you all agree it has been a fascinating day with really excellent speakers.

Recently I gave a TED talk which had the title 'New Environmentalism and the Circular Economy'. Some of you may have watched it on YouTube so I will try not to repeat too much of what I have said before but some of the points I made in that talk are highly relevant to this one and need to be repeated.