More than half a million Americans exposed to toxic air pollution face cancer risks above EPA guidelines
Neighbors used to barely notice the drab, low-slung industrial building across the river from downtown.
Neighbors used to barely notice the drab, low-slung industrial building across the river from downtown.
Environment
Aug 5, 2019
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A top Indian minister has made an ambitious promise that the government will clean New Delhi's toxic air in the next three years.
Environment
May 10, 2019
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Tasmania's bushfires may have resulted in the release of significant amounts of mercury from burnt trees into the atmosphere. Our research shows that industrial mercury pollution from decades past has been locked up in west ...
Environment
Apr 8, 2019
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Mercury pollution is a global problem caused by coal combustion, gold mining, and other human activities, and has myriad adverse impacts to biodiversity. A new study by researchers at the Great Hollow Nature Preserve & Ecological ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2019
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NUS biologists have discovered that haze affects the survival and development of butterflies, which could have an adverse impact on our environment.
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2019
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Environmental activists scaled a huge billboard in Indonesia's capital on Tuesday to highlight toxic air pollution they say poses a danger to residents and athletes competing in the Asian Games.
Environment
Aug 21, 2018
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Plastic pollution has the potential to cause the worst damage to seabirds in the seas around Aotearoa New Zealand, where many of them come to feed and breed.
Environment
Jul 18, 2018
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This past week, Veronique Greenwood filed an important report in the New York Times on plastic pollution in our coral reefs. She summarized some of the work of Cornell professor Joleah Lamb and her colleagues, which estimated ...
Environment
Jan 30, 2018
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India's smog-choked capital has called off a plan to restrict private vehicle use after the country's top environmental court ruled women, VIPs and two-wheelers could not be exempt.
Environment
Nov 11, 2017
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In the late 1970s, the United States banned the production of an assortment of synthetic pesticides, insulators, coolants and flame retardants due to their toxicity and the fact that they stick around for a long time. But ...
Environment
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