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Plastic pollution is toxic and everywhere. Now, legal experts say it’s a human rights violation.

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a...

London’s ‘Wet Wipe Island’ is the first such mass to be removed by mechanical means

Work has begun on the mass excavation of a 180-ton mass on an area of the Thames’ shore near Hammersmith Bridge, in a first-of-its-kind...

U.S. FTC Drops Antitrust Investigation Against Volvo, Daimler After Truckmakers Commit to Not Enforce California Emissions Reduction Agreement

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has closed an investigation into truck and engine manufacturers including Volvo Group, Daimler Truck, International...

Tyres now the biggest source of emissions from vehicles, suggests testing company CEO

As CEO of a company specialising in vehicle emissions, Nick Molden believes that in many countries tyres are becoming the biggest source of emissions...

Road pollution ‘stressing’ ocean life with complex chemical cocktails

Chemicals released from car tyres as they wear down are washing into rivers, estuaries and the sea and they could be disrupting life at...

SuDS role grows under new water rules

Publication of the Independent Water Commission’s Final Report, alongside new legislation and updated national standards, marks a major turning point in the wider adoption...

Direct Li-ion recycling advances poised to reshape the battery materials market

Conrad Nichols, a senior energy storage technology analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx, previews some of the key findings from a new report. The Li-ion...

Seaspan, Anew Climate Partner to Provide Low Carbon Renewable Marine Fuel

Marine transportation company Seaspan’s subsidiary Seaspan Energy and climate solutions provider Anew Climate announced a new strategic agreement aimed at offering a more sustainable...

How synthetic turf is supplying fresh water in South Africa

A project in South Africa is using a form of synthetic turf to enable freshwater recycling, in what seems a novel attempt to solve...

How climate change endangers mothers and children

This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that...

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