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Europe and UK heatwave updates: Air pollution surges as temperatures soar to 40C — as it happened

Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires. Catch up on the latest updates from overnight.

ABC News

With Greater Manchester in the midst of an ‘ozone pollution episode’, should the region change how it monitors air quality?

Clean Cities Campaign says the city-region should be striving to use WHO guidelines.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Ozone pollution episode

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Air pollution surges as heatwave sweeps across Europe

Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires.

Reuters

Brits urged to stay out of sea after 'black and smelly' pollution found on popular beach

Sun-lovers hoping to take a dip in the sea on the warmest day of the year have been told to stay away after a patch of 'black and smelly' sand was found on Exmouth Beach

Daily Mirror

Plibersek's plan to fix sick environment

Australians have been promised a radical overhaul of the nation's environment laws after a landmark report detailing the shocking state of its natural assets.

AAP

Irish Water reported almost 9,000 incidents to Environmental Protection Agency since 2014 including untreated sewage and explosions

The sheer number of reports lays bare the crumbling condition of Ireland’s national water infrastructure, which has seen decades of underinvestment

Irish Mirror

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To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollution

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

The Conversation

EPA knocks Colorado’s system for issuing air quality permits to minor polluters like drilling sites, gold mines

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency found “important concerns” with the way Colorado regulators review and issue permits to minor polluters such as mines, asphalt plants and oil and gas drilling rigs, and those problems risked further damage to the state’s already poor air quality, according to a 309-page report…

The Denver Post

West Bengal Pollution Control Board collects Rs 8 lakh fine from traders, shoppers for use of banned plastic

KOLKATA: After imposing fines on a section of traders and shoppers for using banned plastic bags in several district towns across the state, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has turned the lens on Kolkata markets.

The Times of India

Ghaziabad corporation gets only 25% of funds it received last year to tackle bad air

GHAZIABAD: The municipal corporation of Ghaziabad, where the air quality is one of the worst in the country, has this time received only a fourth of the funds it was sent by the Centre last year to tackle pollution. Officials said GMC got only Rs 15 crore under the 15th…

The Times of India

Explain over ban on PoP Ganesh idols: HC to Centre, State

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The Hindu

Pollutionwatch: air pollution evidence needs translating into action

The facts are there but scientists need to do more to convince politicians, policymakers and the public

The Guardian - UK

Haryana: High contaminants in leachate near landfill, groundwater to be tested

GURUGRAM: Samples of leachate collected from the Aravalis near the Bandhwari landfill were found to contain toxic substances and chemicals much higher than the permissible limits, according to results of tests released by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) on Thursday.

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Colorado’s efforts are not enough to solve its ozone problem

A year after health officials issued a record number of alerts for high ozone levels on Colorado’s Front Range, federal and state officials are trying to rein in the gas that can make outdoor activities a health risk.

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Bosses of water firms should face prison for pollution, Environment Agency says

Number of serious incidents in UK highest since 2013, but Northumbrian Water hangs onto four-star rating

The Guardian - UK

Jail water firm bosses over ‘appalling’ pollution, says Environment Agency

Report shows English water and sewage firms’ performance on pollution has declined to worst in years

The Texas Tribune

Smog levels in Texas surge during heat wave, bringing worst summer air quality in a decade

Emissions are reacting with the summer heat to create high levels of smog, hazardous air pollution that damages the lungs. But state officials are pushing back on ozone pollution controls proposed by the EPA, arguing such rules would compromise the electric grid.

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Harrowing image shows dead sea turtle on beach covered with bits of plastic bags

Sea turtles cannot regurgitate plastic meaning their guts become blocked, causing them to die of starvation. Nearly all species of sea turtle are classified as endangered

Belfast Live

The Earth's Corr: With calls to reduce meat consumption, meat free days at Stormont, schools and hospitals would be a good start

Experts say we need to reduce meat consumption to battle climate change, biodiversity loss and live healthier lives

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Supreme Court can’t stop the climate movement

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to curb the Environmental Protection Agency’s power over carbon pollution in West Virginia v. EPA jeopardizes a clean and livable planet at the worst possible moment. Along with its recent decisions on abortion and guns, it seems that the court’s conservative majority has no qualms…

The Conversation

We have international laws to stop plastic pollution from fishing vessels now. Why are we not enforcing them?

Ocean plastic pollution was a focus at the recent UN oceans conference, which issued a declaration in support of an earlier decision by the UN Environment Assembly to start negotiations for a global plastics treaty.

The Times of India

All-time high in Bengaluru: 8 fishkills in 6 months of 2022, says report

BENGALURU: The first half of this year has sounded a death knell for aquatic life in many Bengaluru lakes. The city has witnessed the highest number of fishkill incidents in a calendar year in 2022, as per a report by ActionAid Association (India) that was submitted to Karnataka State Pollution…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

The Guardian - UK

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

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