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Scientists find highest ever level of microplastics on seafloor
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
Over 10 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans each year. Floating plastic waste at sea has caught the public's interest thanks to the 'Blue Planet Eff...
China's capital clamps down on single-use items to fight waste
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
Starting Friday, restaurants, delivery services and hotels in Beijing are not to supply such disposable items unless customers ask for them. The restrictions in...
Pandemic: Less air pollution means thousands fewer die
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
Measures to halt the spread of coronavirus have slowed the region's economies to a crawl, with coal-generated power falling by nearly 40 percent, and oil consum...
Less air pollution means thousands fewer die
Apr 29, 2020 (AFP)
Measures to halt the spread of coronavirus have slowed the region's economies to a crawl, with coal-generated power falling by nearly 40 percent, and oil consum...
Essential oil diffusers may cause pollution in home says watchdog
Apr 28, 2020 (AFP)
ANSES said the popular gadgets, which are supposed to purify and freshen air, could have some unpleasant side effects. It said that 1,400 cases of people being ...
Air pollution drops in India following lockdown
Apr 28, 2020 (ESA)
On 25 March 2020, the Indian government placed its population of more than 1.3 billion citizens under lockdown in an effort to reduce the spread of the COVID-19...
First successful study to detect marine plastic pollution using satellites
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
Earth observation scientists analysed data from the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites to develop this new approach, which demonstrates for the first...
Water replaces toxic fluids in production of plastics
Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)
Organic high-performance materials containing only common elements such as carbon, hydrogen or oxygen could solve our resource problem - but their preparation i...
Airborne particle levels plummet in Northern India
Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)
Every year, aerosols from anthropogenic (human-made) sources contribute to unhealthy levels of air pollution in many Indian cities. Aerosols are tiny solid and ...
Activists concerned over increase in waste smuggling in Romania
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
But a factory in the Romanian town of Fieni has built a spacious aviary for the birds in a bid to convince the public of its environmental credentials. The idea...
Senegal bans most single-use plastics
Apr 20, 2020 (AFP)
The West African country won plaudits from environmentalists when it issued a law in January banning the import and sale of single-use plastics such as drinking...
Soot may only be half the problem when it comes to cookstoves
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
But soot is only part of the story when it comes to environmental impact - about half of it, it turns out. As the temperatures in a cookstove begin to drop, and...
NASA satellite data show 30 percent drop in air pollution over Northeast US
Apr 13, 2020 (SPX)
These recent improvements in air quality have come at a high cost, as communities grapple with widespread lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders as a result of t...
Bangladesh's water teeming with drugs, chemicals, study says
Apr 10, 2020 (UPI)
The proliferation of antibiotics in the environment has been linked with the prevalence of antibiotic-resistance among disease-causing microorganisms, including...
Scientists discover plastic-eating microbe
Mar 27, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers detailed their discovery this week in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. "The bacteria can use these compounds as a sole source of carbon, nitro...
Scientists identify best trees for fighting roadside pollution
Mar 26, 2020 (UPI)
To build their framework, Yendle Barwise and Prashant Kumar, scientists at the University of Surrey's Global Center for Clean Air Research, surveyed the scienti...
Opening plastic packaging generates microplastics, study says
Mar 20, 2020 (UPI)
Chinese scientists, funded by the Australian environmental research company CRC CARE, studied the travel of microplastics -- plastic pieces less than 0.2 millim...
McDonald's to scrap plastic in UK 'Happy Meal' toys
Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)
The plastic will be replaced with a "soft toy, sustainable paper-based gifts or books" said the US fast-food giant. "This represents the biggest reduction in pl...
Study suggests LEGO bricks could survive in ocean for up to 1,300 years
Mar 17, 2020 (SPX)
A study led by the University of Plymouth examined the extent to which items of the ever-popular children's toy were worn down in the marine environment. By mea...
First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates
Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)
In the smog chamber at PSI, they analysed chemical compounds directly in aerosols and observed how molecules dissociated and thus released, for example, gaseous...
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