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Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five deaths globally: study
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
Half of that grim tally was split across China and India, with another million deaths equally distributed among Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan and the United Stat...
Toxic mine leaves poisoned legacy in French town
Feb 05, 2021 (AFP)
Back in the 1990s, the local state mining group MDPA approached the community in the town of Wittelsheim in Alsace with an idea for stocking hazardous waste in ...
Rise in air pollution correlates to creation of impressionist painting, study says
Feb 04, 2021 (UPI)
Before the impressionists revolutionized painting at the advent of the modern art era, painters had largely made renderings of their subjects truer to their rea...
Meet 'baby' Claire, explorer of Antwerp's bad air
Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)
Their baby, Claire, dressed in pink slippers, doesn't make a sound, sitting snug in her blue buggy, winter sunlight touching her soft tuft of blonde hair. Clair...
Air pollution linked to irreversible sight loss: study
Jan 26, 2021 (AFP)
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among over-50s in richer nations, with roughly 300 million people predicted to be affec...
UK supermarkets caught in plastic packaging: study
Jan 26, 2021 (AFP)
The nation's top ten supermarkets produced almost 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019, according to research from pressure groups Greenpeace UK and the ...
French court hears Agent Orange case against chemical firms
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
Tran To Nga, born in 1942 in what was then French Indochina, worked as a journalist and activist in Vietnam in her 20s. She filed the lawsuit in 2014 against 14...
Combined river flows could send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into the Bay of Bengal
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
The study represents the first investigation of microplastic abundance, characteristics and seasonal variation along the river and was conducted using samples c...
Trash islands bring Balkan waste crisis to the surface
Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)
But recently, the smell itself was enough to turn away visitors from a reservoir filled with a sprawling mass of trash -- one of several enormous build-ups in t...
Common pesticides disrupt the sleep of bees, flies
Jan 21, 2021 (UPI)
According to a pair of new studies, bees and flies exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides are more likely to experience restless nights. "The neonicotinoids we t...
A sea of rubbish: ocean floor landfills
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
Also, over the next thirty years, the volume of rubbish in the sea could surpass three billion metric tons (Mt), as cited in the study, whose corresponding auth...
Reducing air pollution 'could prevent 50,000 EU deaths'
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
The WHO estimates that air pollution kills more than seven million people each year and is one of the leading causes of sickness and absenteeism globally. Citie...
Choked-up Milan takes smoking ban outside
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
"But I will wait and see if the rules are enforced. In the north of Europe people respect the law, but in Italy?" the 54-year-old told AFP. Italy's financial an...
Eliminating microplastics in wastewater directly at the source
Jan 19, 2021 (SPX)
Wastewater can carry high concentrations of microplastics into the environment. These small particles of less than 5 mm can come from our clothes, usually as mi...
Mobility without particulates
Jan 15, 2021 (SPX)
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is currently developing and testing an innovative vehicle concept as part of its Ze...
Seagrass 'Neptune balls' bundle plastic waste
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
With no help from humans, the swaying plants -- anchored to shallow seabeds -- may collect nearly 900 million plastic items in the Mediterranean alone every yea...
Mexico City plastic ban poses challenge for virus-hit firms
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
Home to around nine million people, Mexico City generates about 13,000 tons of solid waste every day. The new rules, which are being phased in, ban the use of d...
Early pandemic lockdowns had limited impact on urban air pollution
Jan 13, 2021 (UPI)
Several studies examining the early environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic showed lockdown orders were followed by declines in nitrogen dioxide, NO2, em...
Washing your clothes can create Arctic microplastic pollution
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
Plastic particles have infiltrated even the most remote and seemingly-pristine regions of the planet. These tiny fragments have been discovered inside fish in t...
From macaques to crabs, wildlife faces threat from face masks
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
Single-use surgical masks have been found scattered around pavements, waterways and beaches worldwide since countries began mandating their use in public places...
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