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EXPLAINER: Forest carbon credits aim to offset pollution

Forest carbon credits are promises that companies, individuals and governments can buy to counteract their emissions by paying to plant or protect trees

The Independent UK

Small, fast-moving animals perceive time faster than large, slow ones, study finds

Findings may lead to better understanding of how light pollution may affect some species

The Independent UK

No greenhouse gas limits for Victoria's coal-fired power plants as Supreme Court rejects challenge

A Victorian court rejects arguments by environmental groups that the state's EPA should have imposed greenhouse gas limits on coal plants in the Latrobe Valley.

ABC News

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Vic Supreme Court throws out EPA coal case

The Victorian Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Environmental Protection Agency in the first case to test Victorian climate change legislation.

AAP

Arvind Kejriwal govt should immediately issue white paper on pollution situation: Delhi BJP

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP's working president Virendra Sachdeva on Tuesday demanded that the city government should immediately issue a white paper on the current pollution situation in the national capital. Delhi's air quality plunged to the severe category on Monday and the 24-hour average AQI stood at 410 at 4…

The Times of India

Delhi Govt Launches Campaign Against Open Burning To Curb Pollution

Environment Minister Gopal Rai directed department officials to run 'Anti Open Burning Special Campaign' for the next 10 days in view of increasing pollution in Delhi. Read on for details:

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Drivers to Bristol Airport 'feel mugged' by Clean Air Zone's Portway 'trap'

The council asked for signs on the M5 but it has not happened

Bristol Post

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London Underground polluted with particles small enough to enter the human bloodstream -- new research

The London Underground is key to the functioning of England’s capital city. Roughly 2 million people use it each day. But it is polluted with small particulate matter from heavy metals, including iron oxide, that may be damaging to human health.

The Conversation

The artist ‘most likely to change the world’? Tomás Saraceno on making art from dust, webs and pollution

Inside Tasmania’s Mona, the Argentinian artist is using spiders, soil and a floating backpack to encourage awareness of nature and sustainability in ‘the Capitalocene’

The Guardian - AU

The lenses of fishes' eyes record their lifetime exposure to toxic mercury, new research finds

Mercury pollution is a global threat to human health, especially to unborn babies and young children. Exposure to methylmercury, a type that forms when mercury washes into lakes and streams, can harm children’s brain development and cause symptoms including speech impairment and muscle weakness in adults who consume seafood as…

The Conversation

Mumbai overtakes Delhi as city with the filthiest air in India

Pollution in India’s second city Mumbai was worse this week than even the notoriously smoggy capital, Delhi, as experts warned that hazardous air pollution was likely to affect more parts of the country in future.

Radio France Internationale

India’s deadly smog problem is bringing misery to New Delhi residents

India’s capital is enduring the harsh effects of heavy pollution, which brings near cataclysmic scenes of smog to blanket the city

The Independent UK

Coming in 2023: Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution

An edited volume considering whether Classical Liberal ideas may help address climate change and other large-scale pollution problems.

Reason

Michael Hiltzik: Oil and gas drillers mobilize to kill a key California environmental rule

The oil and gas industry, which has been accustomed to getting its own way from California regulators for decades, suffered a rare defeat this year.

Los Angeles Times

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Amazon's plastic waste increased in 2021

Amazon says it generated 214 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021. An advocacy group says it was 3 times that

The Guardian - UK

Weather tracker: cyclone drags pollution towards Sri Lanka

Particulate matter, which is hazardous to lungs, has been pulled in from India by Cyclone Mandous

Salon

Houston's chemical contamination

"The people there are tired of being studied. We need to take action.”

Evening Standard

Ministers accused of ‘betraying tens of thousands of children’ in London and UK with 2040 toxic air target

UK targets are weaker than the EU’s despite ministers vowing not to water down environmental standards after Brexit

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Noise pollution: A not-so-silent killer?

The constant rumble of traffic and people brings cities to life. But is it also making us sick? The ill-effects of noise pollution are now well documented, with cities declaring open war on the not-so-silent killer. The Down to Earth team takes a closer look.

The Independent UK

London’s Tube network ‘riddled with toxic metallic particles’ small enough to enter human blood

University of Cambridge researchers conducted a new type of pollution analysis using magnetism to inspect dust samples from the London Underground

The Guardian - UK

Pollutionwatch: how initiative could improve air quality in UK schools

As UK air pollution bill begins its passage through the Commons, one project hopes British schools will host pollution monitors

The Independent UK

$698M deal to end Monsanto PCB pollution lawsuit in Oregon

Oregon's attorney general says Bayer has agreed to pay $698 million to end a lawsuit over PCB pollution associated with products made by Monsanto, the agriculture giant it now owns

Evening Standard

Iron particles in Tube air ‘can enter bloodstream’, new research reveals

Pollution monitors ‘may not detect full extent of ultra-fine dust’

Daily Mirror

Tube 'riddled with toxic air particles linked to cancer that could endanger passengers'

Fragments of metal thrown into the air by braking trains can enter passengers' bloodstream after being inhaled, and they pose a danger due to poor ventilation throughout the Underground system

The Independent UK

Metallic particles small enough to enter human bloodstream found on Tube

University of Cambridge researchers conducted a new type of pollution analysis using magnetism to inspect dust samples from the London Underground.

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