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Amount of plastic dumped in Med to double in 20 years: report
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
Egypt, Italy and Turkey are the countries that release the most plastic into the sea, mainly due to large coastal populations and huge amounts of "mismanaged wa...
Air pollution linked to 15 percent of coronavirus deaths: study
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
Previous research has showed how air pollution from exhaust fumes and factories takes two years off the life expectancy of every man, woman and child on Earth. ...
Indian farmers step up illegal fires as Delhi air crisis worsens
Oct 24, 2020 (AFP)
Air pollution in parts of the city reached "severe" levels Saturday -- a day after US President Donald Trump described Indian air as "filthy" -- with monitoring...
Death of sea life off Russia peninsula 'caused by algae'
Oct 23, 2020 (AFP)
Locals in Kamchatka, a volcanic peninsula in Russia's Far East, raised the alarm in September after the animals were found dead and surfers complained of stingi...
Trump calls India, China air 'filthy'
Oct 23, 2020 (AFP)
At their second and final presidential debate, Trump renewed his criticism that action on climate change was unfair to the United States. "Look at China, how fi...
Air pollution killed 500k newborns in 2019: global study
Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)
More than 116,000 Indian infants died from air pollution in the first month of life, and the corresponding figure was 236,000 in Sub-Saharan Africa, according t...
Air pollution costs Europe cities $190bn a year: analysis
Oct 20, 2020 (AFP)
In a sweeping analysis of air quality, health and transport data in more than 400 cities, the CE Delft alliance said that pollution from fossil fuels in 2018 co...
Pioneering LADAR system aims to revolutionize marine plastic detection
Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)
Huge amounts of plastic waste get dumped into our oceans every year, despoiling not only coastlines but triggering the agglomeration of vast islands of trash dr...
Bottle-fed babies ingest 'millions' of microplastics: study
Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)
There is growing evidence that humans consume huge numbers of the tiny particles, formed when larger pieces of plastic break down, but very little is known abou...
Ancient trash heaps in Israel show waste management changes among settlements
Oct 14, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, researchers analyzed trash mounds outside of Shivta, Elusa and Nessana, agrarian settlements that fl...
Study first to tally biomass from oceanic plastic debris using visualization method
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
These unnatural additions to sea surface waters and the large quantity of cells and biomass carried by plastic debris has the potential to impact biodiversity, ...
Pandemic caused 'unprecedented' emissions drop: study
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
As governments ordered lockdowns to try to crush the first wave of Covid-19, CO2 emissions from transport, power and aviation plummeted, the international team ...
Kamchatka marine life death caused by algae: Russian scientist
Oct 12, 2020 (AFP)
Locals on the volcanic peninsula in the Pacific raised the alarm in September as surfers experienced stinging eyes and sea creatures, including octopuses, seals...
Stay-at-home orders cut noise exposure almost in half
Oct 09, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, published Friday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, scientists at the University of Michigan collected noise exposure data from volun...
Russian sea pollution forms massive moving slick
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
The Far Eastern Federal University said in a statement the pollution was between 100 and 300 metres (330-1,000 feet) wide in some places, had a green hue and wa...
Electric clothes dryers: An underestimated source of microfiber pollution
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Funding: Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Grant # 2P20G...
Canada to ban single-use plastics such as bags, straws by end of 2021
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
The ban -- which also targets stir sticks, six-pack rings, cutlery, and food ware made from hard-to-recycle plastics -- is part of a broader plan to eliminate p...
Russia probes pollution off Pacific coast after 'ecological disaster'
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
Locals sounded the alarm in late September as surfers experienced stinging eyes from the water and sea creatures including seals, octopuses and sea urchins wash...
Pay firefighting bill before leaving, Sri Lanka tells stricken oil tanker
Oct 02, 2020 (AFP)
The New Diamond, carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude, was en-route from Kuwait to India when an engine room explosion on September 3 killed a Filipino crewman and ...
Smart shopping can reduce exposure to chemicals called endocrine disruptors
Sep 30, 2020 (UPI)
In a new study, published Wednesday in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, researchers surveyed consumers to find people who avoid pr...
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