Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
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International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
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BeachBot uses AI to rid beaches of cigarette butts
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An interview with air-quality specialist Sarah Coefield about wildfire smoke, ventilation, long-term effects on health, and more
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The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley"
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Ex-owners of polluting Italian steel plant convicted
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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Perranporth Beach, in Cornwall, is famed for being the "Lego beach". The truth is more complicated.
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A Finger Lakes power plant plans to ramp up energy-intensive Bitcoin mining
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Collapse possible at Manatee County (FL) wastewater reservoir
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In Colorado, the looming liability of oil and gas cleanup
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Greta Thunberg has mocked climate change deniers by citing research that claims human penises are getting smaller because of increased pollution
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Sweden to increase airport fees for high-polluting planes – climate impact, such as use of biofuels, to be taken into account when calculating charges
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Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal
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As a crop, cannabis has enormous carbon emissions
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Carbon Capture Convolution - An exploration of a plan to keep a New Mexico coal plant running
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Pollution fears over mink buried after Covid culling in Denmark – signs of pollution detected at burial sites but no water contamination
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How corporate tyranny works - Chevron poisoned the Amazon, and then punished environmental lawyer Steven Donziger when he tried to get justice
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Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem.
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Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm
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Hackers try to contaminate Florida town's water supply through computer breach
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Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water
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Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis
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Please stop ruining summer and turn off that godforsaken music
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Denmark will dig up millions of dead mink after a hasty cull and burial intended to stamp out a coronavirus mutation ended with a new contamination risk
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Brad restores oyster reefs | It's Alive
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Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
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Seven species which have evolved at hyperspeed, because of us
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Find air quality near your exact location
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Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
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Monterey bans gas leaf blowers in residential areas
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Severe wildfire conditions will continue across California, but pattern shift will improve air quality
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What’s causing climate change, in ten charts
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Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims
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Germany bans range of single-use plastics including straws and cotton buds
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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea near Stockholm, global body says
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California Air Resources Board passes law banning the sale of heavy diesel trucks and vans completely by 2045
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Plastic rain: More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rain onto western US every year, study estimates
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The obesity era - Blaming individuals for obesity may be altogether wrong
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Millions of abandoned US oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
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'More masks than jellyfish': Coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
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Where’s airborne plastic? Everywhere, scientists find
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Donald Trump administration makes move to completely roll back US methane pollution regulations
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Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014
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Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate
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One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest
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Paris has a plan to keep cars out after lockdown
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Days of Night/Nights of Day
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A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
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