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Here's beauty industry's best kept secret

Every day, our skin is exposed to millions of dust, dirt, and pollution particles, not to mention the impurities we transfer onto our face when we touch it. But these arent exclusive to the outdoors; they exist within our homes as well. Even the gases and particulate matter from cooking…

The Times of India

Australian study links planned savanna burns to Darwin's worsening air pollution

Planned burns at savannas across the Top End are polluting the air in Darwin, say a group of Australian researchers, raising concerns for people with asthma or lung disease.

ABC News

Hail Mary! Statue’s trip down the Wye raises chicken pollution issue

Artist Philip Chatfield hopes river journey will alert people to damage being done by poultry excrement

The Guardian - UK

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Plastic pollution called out as 'waste colonisation'

'I don't think we, in Australia, have been aware of the impacts. The science is changing daily.'

Newcastle Herald

African digital innovators are turning plastic waste into value -- but there are gaps

Plastic pollution is a growing global menace. Between 2010 and 2020, the global production of plastics increased from 270 million tonnes to 367 million tonnes. Every year, more than 12 million tonnes of plastics end up in the world’s oceans, with severe consequences for marine life. When macro plastics degrade…

The Conversation

As drought hits, what are UK water company chief executives paid?

Anger is growing over the huge sums handed to shareholders and executives

The Guardian - UK

The hidden health issue that can take years off city centre residents' lives

A lack of good quality sleep can disrupt our internal body clock

Manchester Evening News

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Are we beyond limits to economic growth?

Humans are extracting more resources than the Earth can regenerate and creating more pollution than our planet can treat.

The Canberra Times

Gujarat introduces real-time VLTS for disposal of hazardous industrial waste

AHMEDABAD: Chief minister Bhupendra Patel had launched a vehicle location tracking system (VLTS) on June 5 to prevent environmental pollution due to hazardous industrial wastes. Industrial units would generate hazardous waste manifest system to treat and dispose the waste but now it will be done through the VLTS.

The Times of India

Even low levels of air pollution can damage health, study finds

US researchers looked at Canada to see how people in cleanest areas were still experiencing ill health

The Guardian - UK

Dip in air pollution during lockdown makes strong case for flexible work policies: Report

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The Hindu

State directed to expedite land acquisition at Chittur

Area near KMML facing pollution-related problems

The Hindu

River Almond named in report documenting pharmaceutical drug pollution

One drug breached the safety levels of the River Almond by 50000

Daily Record

Free run for erring industrial units at Edayar

They continue to operate without Pollution Control Board’s nod

The Hindu

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Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh residents plagued by air pollution from local building site

Ruth Moss has said that neighbours have had to plan their walking times and avoid their street when the dust cloud is at its worst. Motorists are also claimed to have to use headlights to navigate the road.

The Times of India

PM Modi unveils Rs 900 crore ethanol plant to help Delhi-NCR breathe easy

PANIPAT: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday marked world biofuel day by inaugurating a Rs 900 crore plant in Haryana for producing ethanol from farm waste using indigenously developed 2G (second generation) technology, a development he said would help Delhi and its neighbourhood breathe easy by reducing pollution from burning of…

The Times of India

PM unveils Rs 900 crore ethanol plant to help Delhi-NCR breathe easy

PANIPAT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday marked the world biofuel day by dedicating to the nation a Rs 900 crore plant in Haryana for producing ethanol from farm waste using indigenously developed 2G (second generation) technology, a development he said would help Delhi and its neighbourhood breathe easy by…

The Conversation

A meat tax is probably inevitable – here’s how it could work

Rearing livestock and growing crops to feed them has destroyed more tropical forest and killed more wildlife than any other industry. Animal agriculture also produces vast quantities of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.

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The Guardian - UK

Environment Agency pension fund criticised for owning stakes in UK water firms

Campaigner Feargal Sharkey says profiteering from firms that dump raw sewage into rivers an ‘obscenity’

The Conversation

'Unacceptable costs': savanna burning under Australia's carbon credit scheme is harming human health

Savanna burning projects in northern Australia provide economic benefits to Indigenous communities and claim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But our research suggests smoke from these projects is harming human health.

The Independent UK

Rivers face ‘horror story’ as country heads for drought, say campaigners

River Action has urged the Government to act as low water levels mean more concentrated pollution in Britain’s rivers.

The Guardian - UK

Animals farmed: Tesco’s polluting poultry, killer heat and China’s pork boom

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

The Hindu

CPCL asked to cut down production as odour persists in north Chennai

The Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. has been asked by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to cut its output to 75% of its capacity

LiveScience

Perseid meteor shower 2024: What it is, where to see it, and how to watch

Everything you need to know about August's prolific display of "shooting stars."

The Hindu

No established mechanism to rank cities on pollution: Government to Lok Sabha

Union Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey said this in the Lok Sabha in response to a question by Congress MP Jyotsna Charandas Mahant.

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