pollution
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Standing Up for Clean Water When States Won’t
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Imagine that you’ve grown up in a beautiful, hilly countryside near many streams where you played and fished as a child. Now, years later, you can’t even let your own kids or grandkids play in thos...
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Mar.19.2013
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Can You ‘Think Beyond Plastic’? You Could Win $50,000.
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Plastic pollution is turning our entire planet into a toxic landfill. From the millions of plastic bags and bottles that litter the world’s streets to the tiny bits of floating petroleum we call th...
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Feb.22.2013
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6 Ways Climate Change Will Affect You
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The planet keeps getting hotter, new data showed this week. Especially in America, where 2012 was the warmest year ever recorded, by far. Every few years, the U.S. federal government engages hundre...
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Feb.18.2013
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Anxiety Drug Pollution Makes Fish Go Rogue: Study
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Anti-anxiety drugs find their way into wastewater where they make fish more fearless and antisocial, with potentially serious ecological consequences, researchers said Thursday. Scientists examinin...
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Feb.18.2013
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Wildflowers threatened by “safe” levels of nitrogen pollution
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Wildflower season will be here before we know it and with it a new understanding of how we are affecting spring foliage. New science shows that even “safe” levels of nitrogen pollution ...
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Feb.14.2013
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Natural gas fracking fires protest over pollution fears
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Source: The Guardian The toxic chemicals used in shale gas extraction are the industry’s dirty secret. But Americans won’t stand for it Western Pennsylvania is considered the birthplace...
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Sep.21.2012
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U researchers find way to clean fracking wastewater
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Source: Minnesota Daily The finding may ease environmentalists’ concerns with the controversial practice. When fracking is complete, the water used can be so contaminated with oil, gas and sediment...
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Sep.20.2012
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Why a Ban on Fracking is the Only Solution to a Sustainable Energy Future
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Source: EcoWatch Here’s a memo to the technocrats, pundits, environmental organizations and foundations that believe corporate collaborations and market-based solutions are the key to solving the c...
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Sep.19.2012
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Europe considers suspending airline emissions charge
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Source: The Guardian Officials stress the need to avert a trade war with major economic powers such as China and the United States European officials signaled on Tuesday that they may recommend the...
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Sep.13.2012
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Norway to Establish CO2 Compensation Plan for Industry
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Source: Bloomberg Norway will establish a program to compensate industry for carbon-dioxide emissions to prevent businesses from moving production abroad. The program will be running by July next y...
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Sep.12.2012
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A River in New Zealand Gets a Legal Voice
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Source: Newswatch It speaks the language of riffles and babbles, not legal rights and codes, but the Whanganui River, New Zealand’s third largest, has received something no other river in the count...
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Sep.11.2012
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Asian Water Scarcity Risked as Coal-Fired Power Embraced
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Source: Bloomberg Inner Mongolia’s rivers are feeding China’s coal industry, turning grasslands into desert. In India, thousands of farmers have protested diverting water to coal- fired power plant...
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Sep.11.2012
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Re-Tech 2012 Showcases ‘Technologies and Products That Change Waste into Resources’
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The Re-Tech 2012 exhibition was held on September 5~7 at KINTEX. A number of international conferences were also held to discuss ways of realizing zero waste society. While interest is growing in r...
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Sep.11.2012
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Multi-billion pound mine planned for one of Britain’s most stunning areas of countryside
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Source: The Telegraph Scheme could create more than 1,000 jobs but campaigners fear “massive scar” on landscape of North York Moors. Plans for a multi-billion pound potash mine in one o...
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Sep.10.2012
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UN calls for action to reduce health and environmental risks posed by use of chemicals
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Source: UN News Centre Governments must urgently act to reduce the health and environmental hazards posed by the increase in use of chemicals in industries worldwide, says a United Nations report l...
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Sep.7.2012
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Shell shuts Nigeria pipeline after spill
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Source: upstream An oil spill from a pipeline running to a flow station in Nigeria has led Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell to shut-in the pipeline. The company said that oil which spilled from the lin...
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Sep.4.2012
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Oil spill stretches for miles by Exxon Nigeria field
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Source: Yahoo! news An oil spill near an ExxonMobil oilfield off the southeast coast of Nigeria has spread along the shore for about 15 miles, and locals said it was killing fish they depend on to ...
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Sep.3.2012
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Enhanced noise pollution ensures Mumbai never sleeps
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Source: The Times of India Mumbai is among the noisiest cities in the world, which perhaps explains why this city never sleeps. Quality of life in the city has taken a severe beating in the last fi...
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Aug.29.2012
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Ship sinks off coast of Sri Lanka, creates oil spill
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Source: NBC photoblog Oil floats on water in the foreground as the half-sunk Cyprus-flagged carrier Thmothrmopolyseara lies in the Indian ocean off the southern suburban coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka...
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Aug.28.2012
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Saving the Arctic is environmentalism’s biggest challenge yet
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Source: The Guardian Greenpeace needs the support of millions if it is to save the Arctic from destruction by the oil industry This month we are expecting to see a record ice melt in the Arctic. Bu...
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Aug.28.2012
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