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Countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers fell off a ship.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.
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By Frank Landymore

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have now measured atmospheric mercury levels in the past, and their findings makes our current levels all the more concerning.
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By Frank Landymore

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.
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By Frank Landymore

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This writer argues that, though flawed, the anti-plastic straw movement marks a rare, meaningful moment for the anti-plastic movement.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thousands of abandoned telephone cables across the US are leaching lead into soil and water, a report from The Wall Street Journal reveals.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Joe Biden wants to impose strict emissions regulations on automakers to ensure EVs make up the majority of new car sales by 2030.
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By Frank Landymore

A project that touted so-called "liquid trees" from two years ago has recently been ruthlessly mocked online. Do they deserve the hate?
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By Frank Landymore

Scientists are reeling from the discovery of "plastic rocks" on a remote island off the coast of a volcanic Brazilian island.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A German environmentalist group has just filed "criminal charges" against Tesla, accusing the company of "suspected water pollution."
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.
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By Frank Landymore

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.
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By Frank Landymore

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.
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By Frank Landymore

A new study that analyzed tens of thousands worth of observations made by the human eye found that stars are fading from view much faster than expected.
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By Frank Landymore

Environment officials in the UK were stunned after an entire river turned snow white in the south of England, the BBC reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to a scathing new Greenpeace USA report, only five percent of plastic waste generated by US households — a shockingly low number.
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By Victor Tangermann

An elementary school in St. Louis had a rude awakening when scientists discovered grounds had "unacceptable" levels of radioactive contamination.
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By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms can quickly break down polyethylene (PE), plastic that used in plastic bags.
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By Victor Tangermann

Gender reveal parties have become notorious for their occasionally disastrous consequences. Polluting an entire river? Well, it's up there.
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By Frank Landymore

Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup said their study found commercial fishing responsible for much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A chief engineer and national from Russia was sentenced to a year and one day in jail for purposefully dumping waste water with oil off the US coast.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could make the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill look like child's play. It stores 1 million gallons of oil.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Microplastics have reached some of the most remote parts of Antarctica, one of the last natural strongholds against human development.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Humans eat a lot of microplastics every week. Here's our favorite memes about microplastic to lighten the situation a little.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be doing more harm than if we stopped polluting the ocean with plastic in the first place.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A huge cargo ship full of Bentleys and Porches that's been burning for weeks in the Atlantic has finally succumbed to the depths of the deep blue sea. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Antarctica is showing some worrying signs of pollution in the form of a black carbon layer blanketing the snow, caused by tourists burning fossil fuels.
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By Victor Tangermann

A giant cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars called the Felicity Ace is now adrift in the Pacific Ocean, burning, without its crew.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study found that chemical pollution driven by plastics has gotten so bad that it might upend global ecosystems that support humanity.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in the journal Microbial Ecology found a growing number of bugs that have evolved to carry a plastic-degrading enzyme.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A new congressionally mandated report for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine paints an ugly picture of the amount of plastic waste the country produces.
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By Victor Tangermann

Dumping the water into the bay as part of the decommission is an option the Cape Cod Times reported that officials discussed with Holtec earlier this week.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that breathing polluted air might cause lowered sperm counts.
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By Tony Ho Tran

People peed so many party drugs into a local river at the 2019 Glastonbury music festival that the water became dangerous for local, protected eels.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers examined 40 hermit crabs off the coast of England and found that they may be "sexually excited" by oleamide, a plastic additive, in the water.
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By Victor Tangermann

An Argentinian lagoon in the southern Patagonia region has turned a strikingly bright shade of pink, the result of chemical runoff from a nearby plant.
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By Victor Tangermann

In international team of researchers are ringing the alarm bells, warning that our global plastic pollution problem may be nearing a point of no return.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new car created by award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick is said to be able to clean the air of pollution while you drive it.
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By Tony Ho Tran

After a fire and explosion wrecked a nearby container ship, the Sri Lankan coastline is coated in plastic and toxic pollution.
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By Dan Robitzski

Increasing levels of s ynthetic chemicals and plastics found in the environment and inside our bodies could wreak havoc on our reproductive system.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.
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By Dan Robitzski

Surfers in Kamchatka, Russia are reporting that the ocean water is leaving them with poisoning-like symptoms, including nausea, weakness, and high fever.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a shark that had its teeth and skin almost completely eaten away by ocean acidification and chemical pollution.
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By Dan Robitzski

With fires causing dangerous levels of airborne particulates, Colorado officials are urging residents to set up "safe rooms" with air purification systems.
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By Jon Christian

Preliminary reseach suggests that areas with higher levels of air pollution are also experiencing a higher death rate among COVID-19 patients.
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By Dan Robitzski

An environmental group filed a lawsuit last week against big plastic polluters for knowingly misleading the public about how much plastic is being recycled.
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By Victor Tangermann

Companies in India like Oxy Pure are selling customers access to pure oxygen as the area's air pollution becomes increasingly dangerous.
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By Dan Robitzski

New data reveals that hospitals in the United Kingdom treat more patients for heart attacks and strokes on days with worse air pollution.
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By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado State University have found "strong links" between air pollution exposure and "aggressive behavior."
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By Victor Tangermann

Microplastic has been found in rainwater samples in the Rocky Mountains, suggesting that plastic pollution has spread much farther than expected.
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By Dan Robitzski

Ocean waves are slamming plastic pollution against an island's coastline, causing a potentially dangerous plastic crust to form on the rocks.
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By Kristin Houser

When Victor Vescovo broke the record for deepest ocean dive, he noticed what he believes was a plastic bag and some candy wrappers in the deep sea.
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By Kristin Houser

More than 180 nations, not including the United States, have agreed to new rules controlling the movement of plastic waste globally.
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By Kristin Houser

A team from Berkeley has found a way to make recycled plastic far more useful by breaking the bonds between chemicals in the material.
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By Kristin Houser

Startup Prometheus is developing a machine that pulls carbon out of the atmosphere and transforms it into usable gasoline.
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By Kristin Houser

British startup Arborea will test the ability of its "BioSolar Leaf" technology to pull pollution from the air through a newly announced pilot project.
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By Kristin Houser

To address the world's plastic problem, startup Loliware has created seaweed straws that can be composted or allowed to biodegrade in the ocean.
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By Kristin Houser

By pumping unfiltered coal dust into the atmosphere, a processing plant in the Russian town of Kiselyovsk has caused black snow to fall on the region.
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By Kristin Houser

A new service called Loop delivers brand-name goods in reusable packaging, and then picks up the packaging to refill or recycle it.
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By Kristin Houser

A government official in China said on Monday that the country was planning new punishments for local officials who don't meet air pollution goals. Chinese pollution
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By Jon Christian

Jellyfish have been around for a half billion years. Now, pollution and climate change are allowing them to take over and choke the oceans.
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By Jon Christian