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Every year, the world used to add more coal-fired power plants. Not anymore!
One of the world's most fascinating tiny creature may be threatened by chemicals from marine plastic debris.
This is the country's first coal-free week since the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
Air pollution kills 5.5 million people around the world yearly.
Truly, no place on Earth has escaped pollution.
Researchers are calling for change on all levels of society.
Even pristine mountainous landscapes are now polluted with microplastics.
That's a lot of kids.
Oh boy, it's not pretty.
This might help us clamp down on plastic pollution.
Today's vote is "essential in order to protect the marine environment and reduce the costs of environmental damage attributed to plastic pollution in Europe."
Vehicle tailpipe emissions were responsible for 385,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2015.
Balloons might be fun at parties but they become deadly serious once they reach the ocean.
I do like cleaner seas.
Thrash we've thrown away years ago is killing ocean life as you're reading this.
It's one bad news after the other for the coral reef.
This is just adding more salt to the wound.
The ban doesn't solve the bulk of microplastics entering EU waters.
These measures "failed to produce a detectable decrease or decline in methane emissions associated with coal production," the team writes.
The study was performed on Chinese cities -- but the air pollution problem is very much a global one.
Cleaning up makes economic sense.
In the Canadian Arctic, mercury isn't rising only in thermometers.
More than 100 turtles were tested -- all had synthetic fibers in their guts.
Unexpected but not unwelcome!
This could be a very bad development.
This isn't the first time we've tried copying termites.
We're really good at setting bad standards.
A gruelling reminder to curb our plastic pollution.
When glaciers fall to the dark side, methane happens.
The drugs we take are reaching natural ecosystems, and moving up the food chain.
Pollution is a silent killer -- and it's affecting almost all the planet's children.
A story that has some 'ew' -- but definitely a lot of 'wow', too.
Great news from Europe!
It's the first to show that humans are eating plastic.
I like trees.
A small device to tackle a huge problem.
Ultimately, what the mosquito eats, we eat as well.
Go Cali, go!
And the situation is getting worse.
Big moves in California!
Bless you!
An intriguing policy.
A small step that goes a very long way.
Just throw them in the trash if you don't want them on your plate later on.
Nobody likes oil in their water.
It's an interesting man-animal collaboration.
The discovery paves the way for advanced materials that have the same functionality as living organisms.
If it ain't broken, don't replace it with a powerplant.
Humans a bringing about cancer to a staggering amount of wild species.
It's not a simple problem and it doesn't have a simple answer -- but here's what we can do.
