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The Messengers
How do we get people to care about the environment? What if we're asking the wrong question? By Brooke Jarvis.
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California State Assembly approves ban on plastic microbeads
The microbeads — most commonly found in personal care products and cosmetics — are harming waterways and marine life.
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China's smog kills more than a million each year – but there's a clearer road ahead
Air pollution is rarely a major concern for most people in Western Europe. You seldom notice it except when sitting in heavy traffic or when it obscures the far horizon at a scenic spot. However until the middle of last century it was a different story, with heavy industry and domestic heating filling city air with smoke, noxious gases and ozone.
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Everyone should be freaking out about air pollution. The death toll is astonishing.
And that number could double by 2050.
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47 Republican Senators Want To Block The EPA’s Clean Water Rule
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), along with 46 of her Republican colleagues, introduced a joint resolution Thursday “disapproving” of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the United States rule, a recently-added addition to the Clean Water Act that clarifies the EPA’s jurisdiction over some streams and wetlands.
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Filthy Air and Foul Weather
Kate Ravilious explains how pollution can trigger extreme weather, with tragic consequences
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World Air Quality Index
Air pollution in the world: real time air quality map.
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Concern over hidden diesel pollutant
Atmospheric levels of a little known by-product from diesel engines are up 70 times higher than expected according to a study. Researchers found that long-chain hydrocarbons are significantly under-reported in car manufacturer's data. These hydrocarbons are a key component of two of the worst air pollutants, ozone and particulate matter.
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India Bangalore lake of toxic snowy froth
A toxic snowy froth caused in a lake by industrial pollution has spilled over into neighbourhoods in India's Bangalore city.
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The EPA Is Set To Issue Rule Curbing A Dangerous Form Of Air Pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to release its final rule on ozone levels by October 1, a regulation that will seek to reduce the amount of ozone in the air.
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World’s largest smog vacuum - the solution to pollution?
The world's largest smog vacuum cleaner has arrived. Award-winning Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde and his team of experts are the masterminds behind this cutting-edge project. Using patented ion technology, the 'Smog Free Tower' is capable of producing areas or 'bubbles' of smog-free space, allowing people to breath clean fresh air.
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Scientists Play Catch up as New Chemicals Contaminate Great Lakes Birds
Stain repellent and fire retardant chemicals that scientists know little about are increasingly showing up in herring gull eggs around the Great Lakes, spurring concern for potential health impacts.
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World Set to Use More Energy for Cooling than Heating
Rising demand for air conditioning and refrigeration threatens to make planet hotter and undermine pledges to rein in emissions
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Norway Bans Cars in Oslo’s Downtown District
In a first-of-its-kind attempt to reduce air pollution, Norwegian officials have announced a ban on nearly all car traffic in the central district of Oslo. Reuters reports that the ban will be in place by 2019. The city will invest in beefed-up public transportation and build nearly 40 miles of bike lanes to help residents get around. Excluded from the ban are trucks delivering goods to business and certain automobiles that transport residents with physical disabilities.
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Study finds dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP Deepwater Horizon spill
The chemical sprayed on the 2010 BP oil spill may not have helped crucial petroleum-munching microbes get rid of the slick, a new study suggests. And that leads to more questions about where much of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill went. If the new results are true, up to half the oil can't be accounted for, said the author of a new study on the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ozone Hole Nears Record-Breaking Size Again
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is nearing record-breaking size again, scientists say.
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Brazil Mining Flood Could Devastate Environment for Years
The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine has cut off drinking water for quarter of a million people and saturated waterways downstream with dense orange sediment that could wreck the ecosystem for years to come.
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Tests find Olympic water in Rio de Janeiro heavily polluted with raw sewage
New tests carried out by the Associated Press have found that the waters around Rio de Janeiro are heavily and dangerously contaminated, even 1Km out to sea. The new tests bring further doubt on Rio's ability to safely hold the Olympics in 2016. The tests are the second series carried out by AP, who found in July that the waters had disease-causing virus levels 1.7 million times higher than what would cause extreme alarm in the US or Europe.
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A Number too Big to Ignore
As world leaders and policymakers try to reach an agreement on global warming limits at the climate summit in Paris, there is one number they can't ignore. Climate Central Chief Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky explains.
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Tiny Machine Paddles Water, Eats Pollution, Spits Out Electricity
Row, row, row your bot. Inside these tiny machines is a colony of hungry bacteria, yearning to eat. The row-bot, as this charming little device is named, paddles about on the surface of water, funneling waste and pollution into its bacteria-rich stomach and receiving electrical power in return. It’s a self-sufficient cleaner on a tiny scale, made to bob in the sea and eat tiny bites of waste until there’s nothing left.
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