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White House environmental official tours PFAS-site in MinnesotaA member of President Joe Biden's administration stopped in the city of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, on May 6 to talk PFAS with local officials, visiting an area that's been at the forefront of contamination just three weeks after the Biden administration released the first-ever drinking water standards for the so-called... Read more
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Discharge of scrubber water into the Baltic Sea is responsible for hundreds of millions in costsDischarge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea. A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that these emissions caused pollution corresponding to socioeconomic costs of more than €680 million (approximately $730 million) between 2014 and 2022.... Read more
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No letup yet for flood-battered southern BrazilThe rains may have abated, but floodwaters continued their assault on southern Brazil Monday, with hundreds of municipalities in ruins amid fears that food and drinking water may soon run out.... Read more
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Researchers explain how following the dietary guidelines is smart—for you and the climateFor the first time, Norwegian researchers have calculated what effect the average Norwegian diet has on the climate and environment and have studied the potential benefits for the climate and environment if we start following a diet in line with existing dietary guidelines.... Read more
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China Air Pollution Data Center launched to combat evolving complexity of air quality challengesWhile significant strides have been made in improving air quality in China through regulations like the Clean Air Act issued in 2013, air pollution has become increasingly complex. Despite notable improvements, the development of the economy and expansion of vehicular activity have given rise to new challenges, such as the... Read more
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Eating the way we do hurts us and the planet, Canadian study findsIn an age of abundance and variety in food options, are Canadians eating better than they were half a century ago? According to a recent paper by researchers at McGill University and the International Food Policy Research Institute, those relying on Canada's food supply for their dietary needs not only... Read more
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What's with the recent wild tornadoes? Expert weighs inIn the past week, weather authorities across the U.S. reported more than 100 tornadoes across the central and southern parts of the country, destroying dozens of homes and buildings from Oklahoma to Nebraska and Iowa.... Read more
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'Everywhere we looked, we found evidence': Microplastics expert on 20 years of pollution researchThirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology Ph.D. student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, but the next day, there'd be more.... Read more
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A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling showsAn international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a target to cut the weight of primary plastics produced worldwide by 40% by 2040, compared with 2025.... Read more
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Researchers find Northern Hemisphere glaciation enhances orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variabilityIn a study published in Nature Communications, researchers have documented that persistent millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon (AWM) intensity fluctuations were superimposed on 41-kyr and ~100-kyr orbital variability during both the warmer (higher CO2) late Pliocene and colder (lower CO2) early Pleistocene, in response to both external astronomical forcing and internal... Read more
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DDT pollutants found in deep sea fish off LA coast raise questions about the pesticide's continuing threat to wildlifeIn the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles was a dumping ground for the nation's largest manufacturer of the pesticide DDT—a chemical now known to harm humans and wildlife. Due to the stubborn chemistry of DDT and its toxic breakdown products, this pollution continues to... Read more
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Turbid waters keep the coast healthy, finds studyTo preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water. That is one of the striking conclusions from a new study conducted by a Dutch-Chinese team of researchers and published in Nature Geoscience.... Read more
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Calif. state Sen. Blakespear says coastal railroad is at a climate crossroadsA coordinated, multiagency effort is essential to save Southern California's coastal rail corridor from sea-level rise and erosion, state Sen. Catherine Blakespear warned last week.... Read more
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Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills at least 78Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes.... Read more
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Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: ReportMarket-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed to protect trees or alleviate poverty, according to a major scientific review published on Monday.... Read more