Pollution
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Peru oil spill after Tonga eruption an ‘ecological disaster’
The La Pampilla refinery has leaked over 6,000 barrels of oil after a tanker was hit by waves linked to…
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Time to give the ocean its own legal voice
While we debate how Aotearoa New Zealand can move towards a significantly decarbonised world, and how in doing so we…
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It’ll take away our livelihoods’: Welsh farmers on rewilding and carbon markets
Teleri Fielden is suddenly very despairing. Tom Levitt The Guardian After skirting around the topic for the best part of…
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UN: Climate change threatens over 100 million people in Africa
A UN report said the continent’s glaciers could all melt by the 2040s. Deutsche Welle A new report from the…
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The fight against climate change goes beyond reducing CO2 emissions
While global climate efforts have tended to focus on the fight against carbon dioxide, many other threats that attract less…
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When Will We Have the Last Oil Spill?
Perhaps the first serious shadow to fall on the oil age came in the winter of 1969, after a blowout…
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Europe offered Turkey cash to join Paris climate accord
Turkey’s ratification of the Paris climate agreement this week came after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government was offered a guarantee of…
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California Pipeline Pulled Like ‘Bowstring,’ Coast Guard Says, As Oil Cleanup Continues
Cleanup crews and environmental authorities are racing to contain the devastation linked to a large oil spill off the Southern California…
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Climate change: Is the UK on track to meet its targets?
Net zero is the point at which the country is taking as much of these climate-changing gases out of the…
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WHO says air pollution kills 7 mln a year, toughens guidelines
Urgent action is needed to reduce exposure to air pollution, said the U.N. body, ranking its burden of disease on…
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A Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook: CEO Pay
The first — from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC — hit on Monday with a worldwide thunderclap. Sam…
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Dead white man’s clothes
Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill, creating an environmental catastrophe on the other…
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The great ‘known unknowns’ with climate change in the Lawyers Weekly
The climate is changing due to carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases, as well as associated with land cover…
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Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some…
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Fish hooked on meth – the consequences of freshwater pollution
Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Authors The Conversation Often forgotten in this story is a problem…
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Australians must curb overseas flights, drive more slowly to hit net zero by 2050
The IEA has mapped out the changes that nations, industries and individuals must make to bring down the rate of…
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