Tag: Pollution - Page 4
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Old Paint is Killing Rare Birds: Cleaning Up Toxic Lead on Midway Atoll
Decades of lead-based paint chipping off old buildings on Midway are taking a deadly toll on threatened seabirds, but efforts by USFWS will hopefully help.
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On Midway, More Plastic Washes Up With Every Wave. Literally. (Video + Pics)
How do you clean up a beach when every wave hitting the shore brings yet more plastic bits. This video shows the impossibility of the task.
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Coming to Grips with Plastic Pollution, One Bird at a Time
Getting a handle on the scale of our plastic pollution problem is tough, but seeing it wrapped in the bones of a bird helps.
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Help Earth Day Reach a 'Billion Acts of Green' by Pledging Yours Today
This Earth Day a billion people around the world are pledging one act of green to mobilize people around the world on behalf of the planet.
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Sun, Sea, Sand, And... Small Appliances? New Marine Trash Report Reveals Sorry State of World's Beaches
Nearly 1 million pieces of food packaging, more than 250,000 items of clothing, and enough light bulbs to replace every light on the Eiffel Tower -- that's just some of the 9 million pounds of trash volunteers collected recently from coastlines.
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Students Clean Up Lake, Discover Sunken Treasure
On a recent outing to clean a polluted lake in downtown Oakland, one group sixth-graders were rewarded with something more than just sense of civic pride.
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Polar Bear Study Proves International PCB Ban Working
Although still too high, the levels of the synthetic chemical PCB in polar bear blood have dropped significantly. Cubs remain at a disadvantage.
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Be a Good Little Bunny and Watch Out for Excessive Easter Egg Packaging
Love the egg, hate the boxes: Easter egg packaging is better but still too much.
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Re-usable Take-Out Boxes Take Hold in Portland
Laura Weiss agonized over the waste she knew Portland's food carts were generating. She devised a solution, by bike, with re-usable containers and a subscription service.
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3D Street Painting Shows Just How Toxic Laundry Water Is (Video)
To raise awareness for a new Greenpeace report on hazardous chemicals used in textile manufacturing, artist-activists took to the street in Amsterdam.
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Noise Pollution Makes It Harder For Plants to Have Sex
Shh. Trees are trying to get it on.
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Study Finds Fracking Poses Air Pollution Health Risks, But EPA Still Denying Groundwater Impacts
Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.
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EPA Announces Delay in Report on Wyoming Groundwater Pollution Caused By Fracking
The EPA said the reason for the delay is to ensure the agency's final report will meet the highest scientific standards.
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Most Popular Articles of February: Sexy Eco Lingerie, Cooking with a Volcano, and More
The best of February includes a collection of sexy sustainable lingerie, a photo tour through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, stylish ways to hang your bike, and more.
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Tons of Debris From Japan Tsunami Headed Towards U.S.
It has nearly been a year since that horrifying magnitude-9 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck the coast of Japan, but the trouble is still far from over.
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Ecuador Court Rejects Chevron Arbitration Ruling, Reopening $18 Billion Fine For Amazon Pollution
The legal battle has been drawn out for nearly 20 years now, but the latest news is potentially a good sign for the people of Ecuador.
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Mutant Two-Headed Trout May Spur Pollution Crackdown
Turns out nothing gets folks keen to reduce pollution like a mutated, multi-headed fish.
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Arsenic In Baby Formula Related to Organic Sweetener
"Organic" means not full of chemicals...or does it?
