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#1295452021-07-13
Mathematical model predicts the movement of microplastics in the ocean
A new model tracking the vertical movement of algae-covered microplastic particles offers hope in the fight against plastic waste in our oceans.
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#1305232021-09-22
Maritime rope could be adding billions of microplastics to the ocean every year
The hauling of rope on maritime vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering the ocean every year, according to new research.
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#1206582019-04-05
Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5tn a year, researchers find
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans costs society billions of dollars every year in damaged and lost resources, research has found.
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#1210592019-05-14
Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag By Rebecca Morelle
An American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.
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#1206152019-04-02
Manipur’s recent plastic ban appears in election discussions
Forty-year-old Thoi has been selling different varieties of rice inside the historic Ima Keithel all-women market in Imphal, the capital city of India’s north-east state of Manipur, for the past 12 years.
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#1302422021-09-02
Man-made chemicals could be stressing out marine mammals
Marine mammals are grappling with climate change, but now a researcher has joined FIU to study whether chemical contaminants are adding an additional layer of stress to this already tense situation.
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#1215502019-07-11
Making waves: Female round-the-world crew to fight ocean plastic
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 300 women will join a round-the-world voyage launching in October to highlight the devastating impact of plastic pollution in the oceans and conduct scientific research into the escalating crisis.
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#1301952021-09-01
Make historic campaign to ban leaded petrol ‘blueprint to phase out coal’, says UN
The UN secretary general and environmentalists have welcomed a declaration by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on the end of leaded petrol in the face of years of “underhand” opposition.
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#1271702021-02-18
Magnets, vacuums and tiny nets: the new fight against microplastics
When it comes to microplastics, there’s rarely good news. Researchers continue to find the tiny plastic fragments everywhere they look.
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#1281542021-04-21
Lower UK air pollution limits to prevent deaths, says coroner
Legally binding maximum levels of particulate air pollution should be lowered in the UK to be in line with World Health Organization limits, a coroner has said. UK levels for two particularly harmful kinds of pollution are currently twice as high as the WHO recommends.
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#1347752022-05-31
Low emission zones: Most-polluting cars to be barred from city centres
Restrictions prohibiting the most-polluting vehicles from the centres of four Scottish cities have moved a step closer following the introduction of low emission zones.
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#1325002022-01-14
Londoners told to reduce physical activity on Friday due to pollution
Londoners should avoid strenuous physical activity on Friday due to “very high” levels of pollution, experts have warned. The poor air quality is the result of an intense area of high pressure covering western Europe. The associated lack of air movement means emissions from vehicles and other po ...
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#1249912020-04-02
Lockdown eases seasonal smog – but less than expected
We think of spring as the time of blossom and fresh new green growth, but it is often the most polluted time of year in western Europe. Last week, as winds turned easterly, particle pollution once again spread across western Europe. Spring smogs can cause particle pollution to reach the top valu ...
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#1312162021-10-27
Living and working on Georgia's largest garbage dump
Environmentalists fear pollution from the Gonio landfill is seeping into the air, soil and waters of the Black Sea. But government plans to close it have left many waste pickers worrying about an uncertain future.
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#1227282019-10-24
Living Planet: It's snowing microplastics
If synthetic clothing gives off microplastics when we wash it, how far do these tiny particles travel after leaving our homes? Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute found some surprising answers to where these plastic bits end up and how they get there.
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#1345072022-05-17
Light pollution falling amid soaring energy prices, star survey finds
Light pollution has decreased as a result of fears over soaring energy costs, a survey by the countryside charity CPRE has suggested.
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#1284152021-05-05
Light pollution at night affects the calls of migratory birds
When investigators in the UK recorded the calls of migratory birds called thrushes at night, they found that call rates were up to five times higher over the brightest urban areas compared with darker villages.
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#1263952020-12-21
Light Pollution Is Causing Birds to Nest Earlier, Mitigating Some Effects of Climate Change
People might admire the glowing, golden aura of a city illuminated against the night sky, but the consequences for wildlife aren't so beautiful. Light pollution from artificial sources at night disrupts how animals process their environment, and it's triggered crashes in insect populations, an u ...
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#1204652019-03-22
Le plastique menace la biodiversité aux Galápagos
Juste armés de gants, gardes du parc des Galápagos et bénévoles combattent un monstre créé par les humains: des tonnes de plastique que les courants marins poussent jusque dans les estomacs des animaux uniques de cet archipel de l'océan Pacifique.
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#1225072019-10-03
Lake Maracaibo: polluted by a permanent black tide
Smelling like an oil refinery, the vast expanse of Lake Maracaibo has become polluted by its own reserves of crude as Venezuela's economic collapse has left wells and pipelines in ruin.
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#1288592021-05-26
Kīlauea's gas plumes reveal hidden dangers of volcanic pollution
A team of volcanologists who observed the colossal 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, Hawai'i, have tracked how potentially toxic metals carried in its gas plumes were transported away from the volcano to be deposited on the landscape.
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#1272292021-02-19
Kenya: Call for Ban on Plastic Bottles as Oceans Choke on Pollution
Ban plastic bottles to save people and aquatic life , researchers have told the government. The researchers warned that as plastic pollution increases in the country, Kenyans will suffer from health complications related to pollution.
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#1245792020-03-09
Japan’s plastic addiction is affecting oceans and burdening marine life
Japanese society is compact. There’s little space on a resource-strapped island nation. Centered in densely populated metropolitan centers, citizens work closely with one another to ensure a harmonious society.
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#1209992019-05-09
Japan plans microplastics reduction in marine environments by 2020
Voluntary actions so far have seen success
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#1203172019-03-12
It’s time to let go of nitrogen fertiliser
In the first decade of the 20th century, two German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, developed a way to produce synthetic nitrogen cheaply and on a large scale.
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#1187322018-10-30
It's time to ditch plastic bottles and help keep our oceans free from pollution
Plastic bottles are one of the most common items found in the Thames, making up 10 per cent of shoreline litter last year, according to the charity Thames21.
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#1218822019-08-13
It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains
Discovery raises new questions about the amount of plastic waste permeating the air, water, and soil virtually everywhere on Earth
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#1250732020-04-13
It's positively alpine!': Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls
The screenshots began to circulate on Delhi WhatsApp groups last week, captioned with varying expressions of disbelief. Having checked the air quality index, something of a sadistic morning ritual among residents of India’s capital, most could not believe their eyes.
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#1273732021-02-26
It's not just oceans: scientists find plastic is also polluting the air
Plastic waste in our oceans is now a well-known issue but new data shows that plastic is adding to air pollution in Indian cities too.
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#1199672019-02-15
It's not just microbeads - these are the beauty ingredients that are still polluting our oceans
Remember January 8th 2018? No? Well, it was a great day, namely because the UK government banned the production of microbeads in rinse-off cosmetics, including shower gels, soaps and face wash.
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#1239052020-01-23
It's Not Just the Oceans: Our Air Is Filled With Microplastics, Too
Matthew Shribman, a science presenter and environmentalist, is not going to sugarcoat the devastating consequences of plastic pollution for life on Earth.
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#1224592019-10-01
Island reveals rising tide of plastic waste
A remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean has helped reveal the scale of the problem of plastic waste facing our seas. Some 75% of bottles washed ashore on Inaccessible Island, in the South Atlantic, were found to be from Asia - with most made in China.
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#1228602019-11-04
Investigation: Lead in some Canadian water worse than Flint
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in several cities consistently higher than they ever were in Flint, Michigan, according to an investigation that tested drinking water in hundreds of homes and revi ...
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#1311402021-10-25
Into the 'plastisphere': Scientists comb Japan waters to study new eco threat
A boat's crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan's Izu peninsula, but not to catch fish—they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution's impact on marine life.
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#1200732019-02-22
Indonesians clean up the beach one sandal at a time
Hundreds of people sifted through a vast wasteland of rubbish strewn across a beach in Indonesia on Thursday, underscoring the Southeast Asian archipelago's mammoth marine waste problem
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#1223332019-09-24
Indonesian forest fires putting 10 million children at risk: UN
Indonesian forest fires are putting nearly 10 million children at risk from air pollution, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as scientists said the blazes were releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
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#1323372022-01-06
Increase in US wildfires has led to increase in co-occurrence of two kinds of air pollution
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S. has found that an increase in wildfires in western parts of the United States has led to increases in two kinds of air pollutants in areas both near to the fires and far away.
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#1335652022-02-28
In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury
Years of artisanal mining along the Madre de Dios River and its tributaries have left their marks, both seen and unseen. Miners, swarming to the region in a modern-day goldrush, have cleared away pockets of this sliver of the Peruvian Amazon.
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#1261932020-12-11
In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
Plastic production surged in the last 50 years, and we could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week.What’s for dinner? Lego sushi, credit card burgers, or a well-done piece of PVC pipe? These examples may sound extreme, but can easily represent over time the cumulative am ...
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#1325602022-01-17
In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods
Stuffed garbage bags float gently down the Bisnumati River in the western part of Kathmandu. The river, sacred to Nepal’s Hindu and Buddhist populations, is one of the main waterways running through the Kathmandu Valley. Brownish water empties from pipes directly into the river: unfiltered sewag ...
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#1292862021-06-14
Illegal sewage discharge in English rivers 10 times higher than official data suggests
Water companies are being allowed to unlawfully discharge raw sewage into rivers at a scale at least 10 times greater than Environment Agency prosecutions indicate, according to analysis to be presented to the government.
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#1338912022-03-31
Hunting toxic chemicals in the Arctic
At first, it was a simple question: what exactly did oil pollution do to gray seals off the coast of Norway?
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#1268382021-02-03
Human noise affects animal behaviour, studies show
Working from home during Covid-19 has brought noise pollution close to home, whether it’s your partner making calls within earshot or grinding coffee during your Zoom interview. Now research suggests the animal kingdom is also disturbed by the noise of humans and our gadgets.
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#1229052019-11-07
Huge amounts of abandoned fishing gear litter the world's oceans
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of lost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear litter the world’s oceans. In some areas, this gear accounts for 30 per cent of the catch, trapping turtles, seabirds and whales as well as commercially fished species.
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#1331702022-02-14
How ‘forever chemicals’ are using marine life to travel the world by sea
When scientists found women in the remote Faroe Islands had unusually high concentrations of toxic industrial chemicals in their breast milk, it seemed a surprising discovery.
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#1229582019-11-11
How to see stars and tackle light pollution in your own backyard
The dark skies of the great outdoors help people to see the wonders of space, either with the naked eye or using telescopes. That's why observatories are usually placed in high altitudes or remote locations, where there's often outstanding natural beauty and little light pollution.
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#1285482021-05-11
How to fix pollution, noise, and stress in cities using only plants
Turning existing city infrastructure green by installing plants can filter out fine dust and noise, reduce urban heat island effects, and even reduce stress. All it takes is regreening 20 percent of façades and rooftops for every fifth building in a city.
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#1263962020-12-21
How the US Clean Air Act saved 1.5 billion birds in 50 years
The improved air quality and reduced ozone pollution that followed the 1970 passage of the US Clean Air Act and later amendments have saved the lives of 1.5 billion birds across the continent, according to new research.
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#1203712019-03-14
How pollution and greenhouse gases affect the climate in the Sahel
Over the last decade many countries in the Sahel region—the semi-arid southern edge of the Sahara that stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia—have been embroiled in conflict. Populations in these countries are growing. This means that resources are increasingly scarce, and a highly variable climate ...
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#1332522022-02-16
How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat
People fishing along the banks of the White River as it winds through Indianapolis sometimes pass by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they catch.