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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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Ecological challenges in Central Asia

featured Ecological challenges in Central Asia

The Aral Sea is dead. None of its original rich variety of fish species have survived. The greatly-reduced area has many sites such as this near Munyak in the autonomous...

On by Dave Armstrong 0 Comments

New ozone threat:small but deadly

New ozone threat:small but deadly

This attractive map contrasts the left industrial side of our planet with the natural healthy right side. I don't believe there is any ozone remaining on the left; Earth image;...

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Canada moves on Utah's tar sands

Canada moves on Utah's tar sands

The double arch of Utah's Arches National Park helps to point out that tourism and nature are possible more important than the short term gains on the profit sheets of...

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To bee or not to bee (again)

To bee or not to bee (again)

They're going back home in the fading light. Gathering pollen and nectar, the Bombus terrestris bumble bee, and its equally white-tailed relative,Bombus lucorum are the alternative to honey bees, if...

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The worst of climate change conferences?

The worst of climate change conferences?

Even the British PM, David Cameron, has come out to link the Philippines typhoon damage with climate change. Here on Apo Island, the landscape has drastically changed for this idyllic...

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Pet coke expands, and pollutes everywhere

Pet coke expands, and pollutes everywhere

All the forests cleared, bright outlook for petrochemical industries in Edmonton and heavy increases in the use of the tar sands of Northern Alberta. But what about the refining and...

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Air quality study with benefits

Air quality study with benefits

Barcelona sits in Catalonia, with few pollution worries. There are many urban pollution problems in other cities and rural areas elsewhere in Europe: Barcelona skyline image; Credit: © Shutterstock 88%...

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CCS or going renewable? The answer is now obvious

CCS or going renewable? The answer is now obvious

The absorption of carbon dioxide in the tower is normally by amines, but new technologies could have improved the system. The problem is - why should we burn any fossil...

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