Pollution
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Pollution in the Mediterranean sea: 65% are plastic waste
The results of Floating Litter, the project conducted by the Italian institute ISPRA and Mediterranea to monitor the amount of…
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60 years and not feel them: the microplastics on the seabed of the Mediterranean are eternal
A study by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona sampled the sediments of the seabed between Barcelona and Tarragona. Polyethylene (PE),…
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The oil spills that wrote the history of environmental justice
It closes with an agreement between the Dutch major and the NGO Friends of the Earth one of the most…
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At Christmas we are all more… pollutants: +133% pollution freight transport
The transport of goods to Christmas generates an increase of 133% of pollution due to the emissions of the means…
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Kansas has the biggest onshore oil leak in the last 10 years
The oil leak is almost equal to all of the previous 22 leaks of the Keystone pipeline put together. The…
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US$3.7 billion plan for direct air capture CO2
Almost all the investment -3.5 billion $- will finance 4 major regional hubs to develop commercial-scale DAC technologies with a…
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Plastic at sea: “Every week we eat the equivalent of a plastic credit card”
During the Polieco International Forum on the Waste Economy, the alarm of the world of science came: the Mediterranean is…
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The neighborhood with the best air quality? Tell you the grass and the C-14
A study by the University of California Riverside uses the amount of radiocarbon in roadside grasses to determine the amount…
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Abolish plastics: global treaty forgets chemicals
In an open letter published in the journal Science, 13 of the world’s leading plastic scientists criticize the UN’s approach…
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Air quality in Europe, in 2020 more than 300 thousand premature deaths between PM2.5, NOx and O3
Europe is in line with the target of reducing the number of premature deaths due to air pollution by 55%…
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