Current pollution meters don’t count the very smallest pollutants – nanoparticles. Recent research suggests these tiny toxic substances could be a major cause of illness and death.
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With more rocket launches comes more pollution cleanup
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The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
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Global shipping companies have spent millions rigging vessels with “cheat devices” that circumvent new environmental legislation by dumping pollution into the sea instead of the air
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How decades of L.A. smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
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New Zealand streams teeming with pesticides
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Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics
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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
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The Pacific’s plastic catastrophe
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Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
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Losing The Eternal Blue Sky: Meet a changing Mongolia. Rivers are dry. Pastureland is giving way to mines. And wintertime smog obscures the famed blue sky. How did the country get here?
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How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
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Carbon calculator: how taking one flight emits as much as many people do in a year
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Solar-powered barge gobbles up trash in Finland's waterways
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Opinion: Rivers Of Blood, Black Snow — What Rich Men Did To My Russian Hometown
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Holding the US Navy accountable for dumping toxic copper into Puget Sound
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Sweden's government wants to look into a ban on plastic cups and food containers
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The African Anthropocene: The Anthropocene feels different depending on where you are – too often, the ‘we’ of the world is white and Western.
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New California Bill Could Revolutionize How the U.S. Tackles Plastic Pollution
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90% of Sri Lanka Corals are Dead
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Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
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Industrial methane emissions are 100 times higher than reported, researchers say
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Environmental reporting can help protect citizens in emerging democracies
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The Toxic Effects of Electronic Waste in Accra, Ghana
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Trump appointees ignored scientists on pollution requirements at Foxconn site in Wisconsin
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Inside the long war to protect plastic: Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.
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"Pollution tax" should go two ways
Public Transportation should be free. Or near free, like a library. The same way we tax or want to tax pollution, we should fully subside public and ecological transports. I was thinking about...
Public Transportation should be free. Or near free, like a library. The same way we tax or want to tax pollution, we should fully subside public and ecological transports.
I was thinking about this earlier and was disappointed to find very few examples of pollution tax being put to funding public transports. Even fewer of public transportation being free. It's a bit underwhelming that this isn't talked about more in environmental policies.
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The Rise of ‘Zero-Waste’ Grocery Stores
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How air pollution is doing more than killing us - The air we breathe could be changing our behaviour in ways we are only just beginning to understand.
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To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
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Climate change: Obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges
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Living plastic-free: One activist fights a rising tide of pollution
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Brazil's Pataxo depended on a river that's now polluted with mud
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A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Hyperloop promises ultrafast transportation. But what does it mean for the environment?
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No more of your junk
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A window into Delhi’s deadly pollution
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A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history
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Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
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'Don't touch my Vespa!' Why Genoa is threatening to ban its icon of cool
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EPA chief defends rule rollbacks while at children’s health event
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California Bans Restaurants From Automatically Giving Out Plastic Straws
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Experts unsure if Ocean Cleanup is going to rid the seas of plastic
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Bioplastics offer an opportunity to reduce pollution
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Three years after the Gold King Mine spill there’s no fix to leaky abandoned mines.
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Scientists get ready to begin Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup
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Kansans drank contaminated water for years. The state didn’t tell them.
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