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Climate‐Driven Increases in Stream Metal Concentrations in Mineralized Watersheds Throughout the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA
2024-08-03 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalSulfate, zinc, and copper concentrations are increasing regionally in streams affected by acid rock drainage throughout Colorado Declining streamflows are contributing to increasing concentration...
Tagged under: Pollution | Water Resources | Colorado River | Colorado State
Climate change is behind rising metal and acid pollution in Colorado's mountain rivers
2024-08-02 in wyomingpublicmedia.orgOver the last 30 years, concentrations of toxic metals like zinc and copper have doubled in some of Colorado’s high mountain streams. Researchers blame climate change.
Tagged under: Colorado State | Rivers | Copper | Pollution | Climate Change
‘It’s really scary’: How rat poisons are wreaking havoc on raptors and other wildlife
2024-07-25 (or before) in Science | AAASSupertoxic rodenticides can accumulate in birds, mammals, and insects, even killing some. Scientists want to understand the damage—and limit it
Tagged under: Insects | Birds | Agriculture | Pollution
Sewage pollution warnings at 11 Cornwall beaches today after heavy rain - Cornwall Live
2024-07-21 by in Cornwall LiveTagged under: Capitalism | Pollution | UK | Water Resources
Thames Water hit with £39m of penalties after missing regulatory targets
2024-07-12 in The GuardianPerformance report shows debt-laden company missed 21 targets in areas from pollution to supply interruption
Tagged under: UK | Water Resources | Pollution
Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground
2024-03-12 in The GuardianThe long read: The ocean’s depths are not some remote alien realm, but are in fact intimately entangled with every other part of the planet. We should treat them that way
Tagged under: Plastic | Nuclear Power | Pollution | Oceans
‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health
2024-03-06 in The GuardianNew report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Oil Industry | Pollution | Health
The US Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Climate Change Could Unearth It
2024-03-02 in WIRED MagazineA new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from US nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
Tagged under: Pollution | Sea Level | Greenland | Ice Melting | Nuclear Power
'This Is Terrible': Eco Emergency in Spain as Plastic Pellets Invade Coast
2024-01-10 in Common DreamsThe countless beads of plastic, which experts fear are toxic and harmful to marine life and people, are believed to have spilled from a cargo ship.
Tagged under: Marine Life | Pollution | Plastic | Spain
Fighting Dirty challenge over axing of pledge to test sewage sludge fertiliser for contaminants | Leigh Day
2024-01-04 (or before) in leighday.co.ukFighting Dirty launches legal challenge to the Environment Agency for axing commitment to require agricultural fertiliser sewage sludge to be tested for microplastics and forever chemicals.
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Pollution | PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Activism
Congress shuts down state efforts to ban toxic chemicals
2023-11-04 (or before) in act.represent.usSurprise, surprise: the chemical industry’s fingerprints (and money) are all over it.
Tagged under: US Politics | Lobbying | Pollution
Milan plans to ban cars from city centre by mid 2024
2023-10-24 (or before) in EuronewsLevels of pollutants in Milan's air are almost four times the safe amount.
Tagged under: Pollution | Cars | Italy
Our most vulnerable communities are being poisoned — by the state
2023-08-25 in The HillIf poisoning predominantly Black communities with toxic emissions and industrial waste isn’t an act of racial discrimination, then what is?
Tagged under: Racism | Pollution
Shell Discovers Another Oil Leak After Resumption Of Forcados Export Facility
2023-08-23 by in Leadership News - Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspaper, Breaking News and moreNigeria’s oil production is facing another major challenge following discovery of another oil leak in a facility operated by oil major Shell.
Tagged under: Pollution | Shell | Nigeria
Deep sea mining is a recipe for certain disaster
2023-07-05 by in blueplanetsociety.orgRead more about marine conservation at Blue Planet Society.
Tagged under: Pollution | Oceans | Minerals | Mining
Oilsands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds. To clean them up, oil companies plan to pour water on them
2023-04-15 (or before) by in Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The StarThe oil industry’s strategy to deal with a trillion litres of toxic goop is centred on a process even the Alberta Energy Regulator calls unproven. One top scientist describes the claim that water capping will return land to a natural state an an “impossible fantasy.”
Tagged under: Pollution | Oil Industry | Canada
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