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The future of the sea? How the ocean economy can fight plastic pollution.

01 June 2018

Zero Waste Week starts

04 September 2017

UK supermarkets must take lead in tackling plastic pollution

01 June 2017

Nations that are cleaning up ---- part 1!

06 March 2017

California butterflies and neonicotinoids!

17 August 2016

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New centers will examine pollutant mix

featured New centers will examine pollutant mix

Scientists in American universities will receive money from the US Environmental Agency to investigate how pollution in the air affects us by examining how pollutants act together when mixed. Each...

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Tibetan Plateau soot damage driving stronger monsoons

Tibetan Plateau soot damage driving stronger monsoons

While the climate focus is often on gases like carbon dioxide, good old fashioned, dirty soot can also be behind extreme weather according to new research published in Atmospheric Chemistry...

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Plastic Contamination in the Atlantic Ocean

Plastic Contamination in the Atlantic Ocean

etadshow468 --> It is a tragic fact the Atlantic has large amounts of plastic contamination which is cluttering up the ocean and causing problems with sea life and marine birds....

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Beijing air pollution levels off the scale

Beijing air pollution levels off the scale

Beijing air quality levels were recorded by the U.S. Embassy staff based in the city as exceeding the standard levels. The maximum level of the air quality charts is 500...

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Chernobyl 25 years on

Chernobyl 25 years on

On 26 April 1986, at 1.23 am local time, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 62 miles from Kiev in the Ukraine, suffered a massive explosion to...

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Now you can check your nitrogen footprint too

Now you can check your nitrogen footprint too

The phrase carbon footprint has passed easily into common usage, but now there's a new green measure to check how lightly you tread on the planet. Scientists at the University...

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UK project gets the fat out of VAT

UK project gets the fat out of VAT

An novel new project in Birmingham sees residents hitting back at the recent VAT rise by turning waste fat into vehicle fuel. The 'Grease Lightening' scheme is working with a...

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Hudson River fish evolve toxic immunity

Hudson River fish evolve toxic immunity

Researchers at the New York University's School of Medicine recently made the discovery that a variation in a gene found in the Atlantic tomcod means they are able to live...

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