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Chinese Scientists Develop Robot Fish that Gobble up Microplastics

Robot fish that "eat" microplastics may one day help to clean up the world's polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China. Soft to touch and just 1.3 centimeters (0.5 inch) in size, these robots already suck up microplastics in shallow water. The team…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea

Told to reduce air pollution, the shipping industry could have switched to cleaner fuels – instead, many vessels turned to special devices that simply dump the toxins into the water

The Guardian - UK

Dwarka Expressway to be ready in 2023: Gadkari

Apart from relieving traffic congestion on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway and arterial roads, the Dwarka Expressway will immensely help in reducing air pollution in the Delhi-NCR

The Hindu

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SC Governor seeks to protect port from landmark's pollution

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina signed an executive order Monday seeking to protect the nation's ninth-busiest port from pollution

The Independent UK

Dobbs highlights environmental racism

Communities near polluting sites are more likely to need abortion care in the first place

Salon

NASCAR racing in downtown Chicago the last thing the city needs

These races would steer our city in exactly the wrong direction environmentally because they cause an obscene amount of pollution.

Chicago Sun-Times

IIT-Kanpur to establish network of air-quality sensors to measure pollution in rural India

Three-year pilot project could pave the way for a national network of air quality sensors in rural India

The Hindu

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Anger simmers for Dutch farmers who oppose pollution cuts

Dutch farmers are embroiled in a summer of discontent that shows no sign of abating

The Independent UK

Bristol Clean Air Zone: The story so far as start date finally announced

It has been a long journey

Bristol Post

Explained | Altering green laws

Will new penalties on environment violations soften the blow for air, water and land polluters?

The Hindu

Microplastic pollution knows no bounds

Palau, a remote Pacific country with a population smaller than most US towns, is rife with microplastic pollution

Salon

Explained | The background of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on limiting the Environmental Protection Agency

The U.S. Supreme Court limited how the anti-pollution law can be used to control carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by a 6-3 majority.

The Hindu

US cruise ships using Canada as a ‘toilet bowl’ for polluted waste

Lax Canadian regulations create ‘perverse incentive’ for US cruise ships en route to Alaska to discharge toxic mix of chemicals and wastewater off British Columbia, report says

The Guardian - UK

UN report says climate change might be pushing more than a million species into extinction, calls for First Nations intervention

Climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing a million species towards extinction. Here's what we can do to help.

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‘The sea is more blue’: Gazans head to the beach after sewage cleanup

Internationally funded treatment plants have reduced sea pollution in Gaza to lowest level in years

Zenger

Deep Water: 5.4 Million Tons Of Microplastic Trash Each Year In Atlantic, Says Study

The study was conducted in the city of Rostock in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The Guardian - UK

Tesco suppliers must raise standards to avert death of River Wye, say campaigners

River Action warns of phosphates in excrement produced by intensive chicken farming suffocating life

Tribune News Service

How reaching for the clothes in your closet helps fight climate change

A small, simple and cheap way to prevent some future climate pollution is to wear the clothes already in your closet roughly twice as many times as you might have otherwise before tossing them.

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Northern Ireland turning Republic into a ‘toilet’ for excess manure pollution

Officials investigate irregularities in poultry and pig waste exports to Ireland, as ammonia risks turning soil into a ‘wasteland’

Irish Mirror

Anti-poverty and environment groups demand cost of living and climate pollution solutions

"'The cost of living crisis is hitting the poorest in Ireland the hardest"'

Wales Online

The five laws the Welsh Government wants to make on littering, pollution, farms, coal tips and infrastructure

The most commonly littered plastic items will be targeted

Evening Standard

Illegal levels of pollution recorded in outer London ahead of ULEZ expansion

Illegal levels of toxic air pollution have been recorded in outer London ahead of plans to expand the Ultra-Low Emission Zone next year.

Birmingham Post

Farmers should be rewarded for reducing river pollution says Welsh Water executive

Steve Wilson said the idea will be discussed at the Royal Welsh Show later this month

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago sees worst air quality of the year on Fourth of July

Last year on Independence Day, Chicago reached a level of air pollution four times the hourly average of a normal summer day. “By 10:30 at night, it’s just a hazy fog and smoke everywhere that you can see,” one resident said.

Wales Online

Soil pollution could raise risk of heart disease among gardeners, study suggests

Research claims it could be raising oxidative stress, which leads to more “bad” free radicals, causing chain reactions in the body that damages other cells

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