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How dangerous is microplastic?
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
What exactly is microplastic? According to current definitions, microplastic is any piece of plastic measuring five millimeters in size down to one micrometer, ...
Safer mining practices reduce hazardous exposures in small-scale mining in Nigeria
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
"Our pilot project demonstrated that low-cost dust control measures were effective at reducing average airborne lead exposures by 95 percent," said Perry Gottes...
Microplastics and plastic additives discovered in ascidians all along Israel's coastline
Jan 04, 2019 (SPX)
The research also confirmed the presence of plastic additives, i.e. "plasticizers," in ascidians. Plasticizers are substances added to plastics to increase thei...
NUS study finds that severe air pollution affects the productivity of workers
Jan 04, 2019 (SPX)
Associate Professor Alberto Salvo from the Department of Economics at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and an author of the study, explained, "Most o...
Plant hedges help curb roadside pollution
Jan 04, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists in Britain set up air quality monitors at several roadside test sites, each with different types of green infrastructure within a few feet of the roa...
Survey finds Texas' Gulf of Mexico shoreline has most trash
Jan 01, 2019 (UPI)
Over the last two years, scientists at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve have been documenting debris along...
Fish bones yield new tool for tracking coal ash contamination
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
"Calcified structures - or otoliths - found in a fish's inner ear are known to store a lot of life history information, including chemical and physical records ...
Anglo American restarts iron ore mine in Brazil
Dec 22, 2018 (AFP)
The stoppage of the big Minas-Rio mine in Minas Gerais state since March cost the London- and Johannesburg-headquartered company $320 million, it said in a stat...
Lithuania wraps tree in plastic to protest Christmas consumerism
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
"This is a Christmas tree but we are using it as a piece of art to protest against the negative effects of hyper-consumerism," reads the message printed on the ...
EU agrees to ban most single-use plastics
Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)
The new rules, which still need final approval before becoming law, target the top 10 items most frequently found littering European beaches. Plastic cotton bud...
Optimizing restoration can deliver an eightfold increase in cost-effectiveness
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
"These restoration targets, if achieved, will bring multiple benefits for people and nature. But we show that using science to help deciding where to restore ca...
The environmental cost of packing our favorite fast-foods
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers, from The University of Manchester, have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the environmental impacts of disposable takeaway-food...
Oceans of garbage prompt war on plastics
Dec 15, 2018 (AFP)
Stories on social media of giant seas of floating waste or a beached whale found in Indonesia with six kilos (13 pounds) of plastic in its stomach are bringing ...
Madrid temporarily bans 'oldest, most polluting' vehicles
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
The latest bid to reduce emissions comes as the city battles acutely high pollution levels, partly due to little wind. Under the ban, gas vehicles made before 2...
Waste plant fire stokes Italy garbage crisis
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
The odour of burning refuse wafted across the historic centre as the blaze, which began overnight, crept steadily from the site in the north-east of the city. C...
Slow recycler Turkey seeks better uses for its trash
Dec 09, 2018 (AFP)
Every bottle or can Gercek places in the machine gives extra credit on her Istanbul card -- the universal ticket for using public transport in the city -- in a ...
In the Balkans, winter cheer is darkened by a toxic smog
Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)
As hundreds of nations gather in Poland for the UN's COP24 climate summit this week, residents in this corner of Europe are wondering when their governments wil...
Austrian court upholds acquittal for cashing in scrap euros
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
The German national was arrested in the spring after using a change machine at a bank in the western city of Bregenz to convert huge quantities of damaged coins...
Lynas mulls 'legal options' after Malaysia imposes new conditions
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
Lynas shares lost more than 22 percent in Sydney after news of the new terms. Lynas Corporation's $720-million dollar Malaysian plant, which processes rare eart...
Nepal attempts record with a Dead Sea of plastic bags
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
Volunteers tied 100,000 colourful used plastic bags on a metal grid 20 metres (65 feet) long and five metres (16 feet) tall, shaped like the Dead Sea, on open g...
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