Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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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
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Poland: ‘Huge’ amounts of chemical waste dumped into river
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Nurdles: The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of
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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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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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Collapse possible at Manatee County (FL) wastewater reservoir
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Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis
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Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water
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How the waters off Los Angeles became a DDT dumping ground
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Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims
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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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Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away
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Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste
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The spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was far worse than previously believed, new research has found
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Welcome to Hawaii's 'plastic beach', one of the world's dirtiest places
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New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing, and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse
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For the first time in decades, EPA is overhauling how communities must test for lead in water
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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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A decade later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left an abyssal wasteland
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New Zealand streams teeming with pesticides
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Newark, NJ: Inside America's latest lead water crisis
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Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics
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Solar-powered barge gobbles up trash in Finland's waterways
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It looks like a lake made for Instagram. It’s a dump for chemical waste
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Michigan authorities drop all criminal charges relating to Flint Water Crisis
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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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Five years after Flint's crisis began, is the water safe?
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Brazil's Pataxo depended on a river that's now polluted with mud
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A fourteen-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history
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Detroit school district shuts off all drinking water because of lead and copper test results
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What happened at Camp Lejeune - I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate.
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Michigan official faces manslaughter trial over Flint deaths
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Beer, drinking water and fish: Tiny plastic is everywhere
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Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life
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Railway estimates 230,000 gallons of oil spilled into floodwaters after Iowa derailment
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