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#1267002021-01-26
Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss
Small increases in air pollution are linked to an increased risk of irreversible sight loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a large UK study has found.
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#1301922021-09-01
Air pollution is slashing years off the lives of billions, report finds
Air pollution is cutting short the lives of billions of people by up to six years, according to a new report, making it a far greater killer than smoking, car crashes or HIV/Aids.
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#1238872020-01-22
Air pollution in New York City linked to wildfires hundreds of miles away
A new study shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles and several days to reach Connecticut and New York City, where it caused significant increases in pollution concentrations.
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#1316752021-11-15
Air pollution in Europe still killing 300,000 a year: report
Premature deaths caused by fine particle air pollution have fallen 10 percent annually across Europe, but the invisible killer still accounts for 307,000 premature deaths a year, the European Environment Agency said Monday.
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#1275292021-03-04
Air pollution fell sharply during lockdown
The far-reaching mobility restrictions at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020 created a unique situation for atmospheric sciences: "During the 2020 lockdown, we were able to directly investigate the actual effects of drastic traffic restrictions on the distribution of air pollutant ...
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#1248632020-03-25
Air pollution declines in Spain after implementation of measures to fight COVID-19
The concentration levels of nitrogen dioxide, a primary air contaminant, have declined 64% in major Spanish cities after the implementation of measures to fight COVID-19. Levels have fallen most in Barcelona, with an 83% decline. In Madrid, levels have dropped 73% and 64% in València.
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#1336472022-03-02
Air pollution deaths up 2.5 times in India in 2 decades
Deaths attributable to PM 2.5 pollution in India have increased by 2.5 times over the last two decades, according to a new report by the Centre for Science and Environment.
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#1355212022-08-01
Air pollution boosts cloud cover but reduces rain, study finds
Researchers have found that aerosol particles in the atmosphere have a bigger impact on cloud cover than previously thought, despite a smaller effect on cloud brightness than expected.
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#1285492021-05-11
Air Pollution From Raising Livestock Accounts for Most of the 16,000 US Deaths Each Year Tied to Food Production, Study Finds
Food production, primarily the raising of livestock, causes poor air quality that is responsible for about 16,000 deaths a year in the United States, roughly the same number from other sources of air pollution, including transportation and electricity generation, according to research published ...
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#1294982021-07-09
After street lights in an entire county were swapped to LEDs, light pollution got worse
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"—this famous paraphrase of Scottish poet Robert Burns sometimes sums up human ingenuity. That is exactly what happened when a county in Washington State decided to replace all of its county-owned streetlights with LEDs, at least partially in an ...
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#1231782019-11-29
Africa has shown world how to tackle plastics
At the recently concluded 17th Ordinary session of the Africa Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), all 54 African countries committed to address the key environmental challenges of our time including climate change, land degradation, loss of biodiversity and plastic pollution.
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#1340092022-04-12
Aerosol Pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s Climate and a Threat to Health
Aerosols are fine particulates that float in the atmosphere. Many are natural, but those haven’t increased or decreased much over the centuries. But human-caused aerosols — emitted from smokestacks, car exhausts, wildfires, and even clothes dryers — have increased rapidly, largely in step with g ...
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#1216872019-07-24
Active pharmaceutical ingredients can persist in the environment
Homeowners who rely on private wells as their drinking water source can be vulnerable to bacteria, nitrates, and other contaminants that have known human health risks.
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#1284032021-05-05
Account For Nearly 80 Percent Of Plastic Carried Into Oceans: Study
A new study has found nearly 80 percent of the plastic pollution in the oceans come from 1,000 rivers around the world. While it was first thought that a handful of large continental rivers were the main culprits, contributing the most in terms of plastic emissions, a new model has shown a mix o ...
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#1354062022-07-21
A third of Wellington’s kākā parrot chicks found to have lead in their blood
Lead has been detected in nesting native kākā chicks in Wellington, but unusually, the birds look to have developed a tolerance to the toxin, a study has found.
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#1348452022-06-02
A systems perspective is key to tackling the health effects of pollution
The Lancet Planetary Health released the report, “Pollution and health: A progress update,” on 17 May 2022. The report finds that pollution is responsible for approximately nine million deaths per year, corresponding to one in six deaths worldwide, making it the world’s largest environmental ris ...
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#1186312018-10-23
A sea change: how one small island showed us how to save our oceans
In just 10 years, the Isle of Man has rid its beaches of plastic and earned Unesco status as a world leader in ocean protection. So how did it do it?
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#1203182019-03-12
A new paradigm for plastics
We have long known that the accumulation of plastic in the world’s landfills and oceans represents a growing environmental risk. More recently, we have come to understand that plastic poses an urgent – even deadly – threat to public health, too. And yet, global efforts to address the plastic cri ...
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#1265552021-01-11
A forum to fight ocean plastic pollution
As the second Malta Sustainability Forum prepares to kick-start online later this month, Malta’s first-ever Ocean Ambassador Alan Deidun explains why fighting ocean plastic pollution should be at the top of humanity’s priorities list.
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#1253642020-05-01
A COVID-19 recovery for climate
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, countries are launching economic recovery programs to mitigate unemployment and stabilize core industries. Although it is understandably difficult to contemplate other hazards in the midst of this outbreak, it is important to remem ...
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#632595th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
2 - 6 December 2024, Montreal, Canada
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#632393rd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
11 - 15 December 2023, Montreal, Canada
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#22578th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention
27 November - 1 December 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
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#588785th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
25 - 29 May 2020, TBA, Canada
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#600085th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
25 - 29 May 2020, Montreal, Canada
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#588684th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
16 - 20 December 2019, Montreal, Canada
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#588983rd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
27 - 31 May 2019, Montreal, Canada
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#581382nd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
3 - 7 December 2018, Montreal, Canada
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#581281st Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
18 - 22 June 2018, Montreal, Canada
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#564580th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
13 - 17 November 2017, Montreal, Canada
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#564479th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
3 - 7 July 2017, Bangkok, Thailand
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#564378th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
4 - 7 April 2017, Montreal, Canada
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#524769th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
15 - 19 April 2013, Montreal, Canada
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#501967th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
16 - 20 July 2012, To be determined
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#501866th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
16 - 20 April 2012, Montreal, Canada
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#477364th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
11 - 15 July 2011, Montreal, Canada
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#1278652021-04-01
64% of global agricultural land at risk of pesticide pollution
Researchers from the University of Sydney examined the impact that pesticides are having on soil, the atmosphere and surface and groundwater across 168 countries.The data revealed that Asia houses the largest land areas at high risk of pollution, with China, Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines ...
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#477263rd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
4 - 8 April 2011, Montreal, Canada
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#464762nd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
29 November - 3 December 2010, Montreal, Canada
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#334160th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
12 - 16 April 2010, Montreal, Canada
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#1322242021-12-20
6 Ways To Break Your Addiction To Single-Use Plastic
United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) report shows that plastic pollution leakage into aquatic ecosystems has grown sharply in recent years and is projected to more than double by 2030, with dire consequences for human health, the global economy, biodiversity and the climate.
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#14195th AGRO Conference: fate, exposure and regulatory issues: Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soils and Water
8 - 9 July 2003, Frankfurt, Germany
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#563959th Meeting of the Implementation Committee Under the Non-Compliance Procedure of the Montreal Protocol (UNEP Ozone Secretariat)
18 November 2017, Montreal, Canada
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#334059th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
10 - 14 November 2009, Port Ghalib, Egypt
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#326058th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
6 - 10 July 2009, Montreal, Canada
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#325957th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
30 March - 3 April 2009, Montreal, Canada
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#610353rd (bis) session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC-53bis)
22 - 26 March 2021, Electronic and written session, Geneva, Switzerland
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#500348th Meeting of the Implementation Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure for the Montreal Protocol
29 - 30 July 2012, Bangkok, Thailand