Tag: Pollution - Page 7
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Art Show Spotlights India's Polluted Yamuna River
The source of 70 percent of New Delhi's water, the Yamuna River is filthy with sewage and garbage, but people are now being drawn to its banks by a new art exhibit that seeks to raise awareness about the river's plight.
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Art Intervention Lights Up One of the World's Most Polluted Rivers in Buenos Aires
Undergoing a new cleaning plan, the Matanza-Riachuelo river in Buenos Aires was put on the spotlight by a Spanish artist's light and music show.
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Chemical 'Snow' Blankets Cancer-Hit Turkish Town
A mysterious sticky white substance falling from the sky further fans pollution fears in an industrial suburb of Istanbul where cancer rates are already the highest in Turkey.
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Coca Cola Wins Again: American Idol Abandons REFUSE Plastic Message After Pressure From Sponsor
It's the second strike against Coca Cola in under a week as the company pressures popular TV show to abandon its support for a PSA denouncing disposable plastics.
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Fracking May Have Polluted Wyoming Aquifer, EPA Investigation Finds
Newly presented data from the EPA shows fracking chemicals have indeed contaminated Pavillion, Wyoming wells.
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Shooting Down Space Junk with Giant Lasers
The latest concept for dealing with the serious problem of space debris takes aim with powerful lasers.
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The Leftovers: OLPCs Dropped In Middle of Nowhere (on Purpose), Zombies in Wal-Mart and More
More tech news stories that you want to know about before the day ends.
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Chesapeake Bay Dead Zone Now Shorter In Length & Smaller in Size
Efforts to control runoff into Chesapeake Bay are paying off. New research shows the extent of the bay's dead zone has been declining in recent decades.
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One Tenth China's Land Said To Be Highly Polluted With Heavy Metals - Coal May Be To Blame
"Pollution from lead, mercury and cancer-causing cadmium is often blamed for poisoning entire villages and crop-growing land in China as factory bosses flout environmental laws and farmers use toxic fertilizers."
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Cycle For Water Project Bikes Into 13th Country On Epic Journey for Clean Water
Cycle for Water has entered its 13th country in a trek from the very north of Alaska to the very south of South America.
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Propane Gel Could Eliminate Water Use In Fracking - Satisfy Opponents?
A little-publicized, or used, method of fracking for natural gas could potentially eliminate some of the concerns of anti-fracking activists over water use and disposal.
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Carbon Nanotubes in Environment Affect The Growth of Algae
It's still difficult to say how carbon nanotubes that make their way into the environment will affect flora and fauna, but some possibilities are already known
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Coal Ash Spill in Lake Michigan Occurs Within Days of New EPA Data on Hazardous Coal Ash Ponds
Researchers concluded that the spill probably doesn't pose a significant environmental risk, but the ash contained heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury.
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Shloppity Shlop! Here Comes Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax"
The Once-ler, a clear-cutting industrial polluter. Images courtesy of Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures The Lorax, champion of the environment, is coming to the big screen in an animated 3D (or rather "Tree-D") movie featuring Danny
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Nebraska Legislature to Consider Rerouting Keystone XL Pipeline
The governor of Nebraska announced that he will call a special legislative session to consider challenging the route of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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How Sustainability Could be the Future Standard for all Rum
Rum, one of the world's favorite spirits, could be one of the most sustainable, too.
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How Washing Machines Are Adding to the Plastic Pollution Problem in Our Oceans
Tiny fragments of synthetic materials are coming from our washing machines and contaminating ocean shorelines around the world.
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Tar Sands Activists & Former Obama Organizers Demand President Reject Keystone XL Pipeline
Anti-fracking and tar sands activists, many of them self-described as organizers for Barack Obama in his first presidential campaign, are taking the President to task over his campaign promises about ending the tyranny of fossil fuels.
