Pollution
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Birds are eating ‘astronomical’ amount of marine debris they mistake for fish eggs, with the biggest problem areas near Australia and New Zealand
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Gary Fuller reports that smoke from forest fires can travel a long way – and cause deaths from pollution in areas hundreds of kilometers from the blaze
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City links: Car-free Paris, skyscrapers in a Mumbai slum, floating food forests in New York and Nairobi’s smart bus system feature in this week’s best city stories
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Freedom of information requests unearth inconsistent messaging from miner and Northern Territory government on the extent of heavy metal contamination
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Tribe’s crops suffer during search for alternative water sources despite EPA’s insistence that Animas and San Juan rivers in New Mexico are in pre-spill state
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In Shiprock, New Mexico, Earl and Cheryle Yazzie, members of the Navajo Nation, explain how the spill affected the lives of farmers in their community.
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The retail giant’s foundation is calling for innovative solutions to waste and pollution but critics say it’s just a way to keep the wheels of fast fashion spinning
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John Abraham: As with climate change, both mitigation and adaptation are needed to tackle air pollution in China
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Rise of Isis led to substantial decrease in NO2 emissions in Baghdad and central Iraq since 2013, say researchers, with similar trends seen in Egypt and Syria
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Expert says neonicotinoids, even at EPA’s ‘safe’ levels, could devastate aquatic invertebrates: ‘The water issue is probably as important as the pollinators’
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Mayor of Bay of Naples island featured in film plays down environmental test results showing high levels of E coli and faecal bacteria off Pozzo Vecchio beach
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Thirteen charged with aggravated trespass and entering a security restricted area of an aerodrome after runway demonstration in July
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Four new proposals are meant to reduce emissions over the next decade as part of the Obama administration’s broad effort to reduce greenhouse gases
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The country’s plan to build more than 100 new coal-fired power plants over the next five years could result in the premature deaths of nearly 30,000 people a year, according to new research by Harvard University and Greenpeace
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Colorado mining spill that dumped 3 million gallons of toxic waste and turned river orange was the result of what industry experts call ‘a ticking time bomb’
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Everyone hates a rough commute. So why aren’t more companies helping their employees come up with better alternatives to driving?
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As a fight over 11 lime trees in Sheffield escalates, activists in cities all over the world are making the case for urban trees – to cut pollution, increase land value and even make you feel younger
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Firefighters took about two hours to bring the fire under control at the DrillChem plant on the eastern fringe of Conroe, near Houston
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Physicists at the University of California have found 1.6 million people in China die each year from heart, lung and stroke problems because of polluted air
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Effects already proving devastating for Navajo Nation as attorneys general from affected states Colorado, New Mexico and Utah promise ‘to be vigilant’
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EPA says water quality data shows Animas River water in La Plata County is back to normal but impact of heavy metal load in river sediment could last years
EU car pollution laws have improved UK's air quality, say carmakers