pollution
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Smoking in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s financial and fashion capital, Milan, is now banned. It’s the toughest extension of a series of bans starting in 2021, aimed at ‘improving the quality of the city’s air’. Smoking has now been banned in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s second largest city of Milan. The…
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The protection of living environments is for the public good and a legitimate aim of a democratic society. For example, the European Convention on Human Rights Article 8 states that: “Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence”, and further, that both an individual’s health and…
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Much of our sense of the scale of damage in Ukraine is based on measurable factors: the number of lives lost, injuries caused, buildings destroyed, missiles launched. But we should also pay attention to the environmental damage and its unpredictable consequences – that’s according to Andriy Yermak, who leads President Zelenskyy’s office. In a Guardian opinion…
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Snoring is a potential source of noise pollution in the bedroom that can degrade the quality of sleep-in bed partners and may also be an indicator of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the snorer. Both noise exposure and OSA are known risk factors for adverse health events. Precise characterization of snoring provides a means to…
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From 2013 to 2022, “human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade,” they reported in a peer-reviewed study aimed at policymakers. Average annual emissions over the same period hit an all-time high of 54 billion tonnes of CO2 or its equivalent in other gases — about 1,700…
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Google is helping big oil firms to greenwash their reputations by selling them adverts attached to environmental search terms, a new study claims. Ever looked up a sustainability-related question and seen an advert from a major fossil fuel polluter at the top of your results page? That’s no accident. According to a new report by the Center…
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India has called on rich countries to fulfilL a decade-old promise to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance to developing nations. In 2009, a coalition of economically developed countries – including the USA, France, Germany, and the UK – pledged to give climate change-impacted nations $100 billion (€101 billion) per year by 2020. This promise has not…
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COP27 is now well and truly dominating the headlines. From promises to do better to big issues likely to be discussed at vital negotiations, we’re beginning to get a picture of what the summit could look like. This international conference is synonymous with climate change – but what is COP27 exactly, and can it help solve…
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All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week, as the biggest economy in the United States drives a nationwide evolution away from fossil fuel. Proposals to be debated by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) this week will…
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Research findings show that you, unknowingly, eat thousands of plastic every year. Though abundant in water, air, and common foods, it’s unclear consuming microplastic might affect our health. The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind.…
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“If only our species would realise that the consequences of our pollution effects all life on Earth, then perhaps we’d change our behaviour,” said Ian “Garbage Warrior” Dommisse, founder of Ecobrick Exchange. “Continuing to use single-use plastics is like burying our heads in the sand and hoping that the plastic won’t find its way into…
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The term “recycling” is misleading when applied to most plastics. “Recycling” implies that the product is reintroduced to the economy as a fresh version of itself. E.g., glass bottles are recycled to make new glass bottles, aluminium soda cans are recycled to make new soda cans and recycled newspaper is used to create new newspaper. However, when…
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The United Nations Environmental Programme’s Clean Seas campaign serves to connect smaller organisations wanting to make a difference in the ocean waste problem. Its research has made awareness tools available to the public that truly put the plastic problem in perspective – even we use their infographics. Currently, it is cheaper for companies to simply make new plastic from…
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Paris is said to be facing its worst air pollution in ten years, and the government has taken daring steps to save lives. All public transaportation systems will now operate without charges. However, some of the temporary measures taken to realize the national objective will make you wonder who the laws serve. Media reports confirm…
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Image shows patients struggling to get tickets at a hospital. Peking University First Hospital, one of the best hospitals in China, has recently been swarmed with patients and the number is increasing everyday due to air pollution from coal-powered power stations and steel plants. The Chinese government declared war on the putty-colored smog earlier this year…
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The Chinese government has completed plans to introduce a carpool lane in Shenzhen City to help reduce congestion on the roads. HOV lanes are still rare in China but have existed in the United States since the late 1960s. Countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand have also adopted the rules.
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