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Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis ~enviro pollution.water Article 837 words, published Jan 14 2021 29 votes
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Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1383 words 17 votes
A fourteen-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history ~enviro pollution.water Article 2618 words 17 votes
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Dozens of Texas water systems exceed new federal PFAS limits ~enviro pollution.water Article 1536 words, published Apr 16 2024 12 votes
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The indigenous groups fighting against the quest for 'white gold' in South America ~enviro pollution.water Article 962 words 11 votes
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Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution ~enviro pollution.water water.storm Article 2122 words, published Aug 2 2022 11 votes
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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 ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 226 words 10 votes
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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 ~enviro pollution.water Article 336 words 9 votes
Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims ~enviro pollution.water Article 508 words 9 votes
The spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was far worse than previously believed, new research has found ~enviro pollution.water Article 975 words 9 votes
Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics ~enviro plastics.micro pollution.water Article 657 words 9 votes
Poland: ‘Huge’ amounts of chemical waste dumped into river ~enviro pollution.water Article 481 words 8 votes
Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away ~enviro pollution.water Article 317 words 8 votes
Railway estimates 230,000 gallons of oil spilled into floodwaters after Iowa derailment ~transport Article 525 words 8 votes
How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 1771 words 7 votes
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
Brazil's Pataxo depended on a river that's now polluted with mud ~enviro pollution.water Article 1703 words 7 votes
Detroit school district shuts off all drinking water because of lead and copper test results ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1006 words 7 votes
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris ~enviro plastics pollution.water Article 6 votes
Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems ~enviro water.melt pollution.water Article 408 words 6 votes
Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate ~enviro climate change plastics.micro pollution.water Article 741 words 6 votes
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