Plastic pollution: seaside communities coming together will save us – not technology
Tech fixes to environmental problems are guaranteed to grab attention, but real change for the planet requires community organising.
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England’s sewage scandal hinges on lack of water industry regulation – new docudrama reveals how profit drives pollution
The water industry has been left to police its own pollution.
Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics
Up to 42,000 tonnes a year of microplastics are removed from sewage, spread on fields as fertiliser and eventually wash back into watercourses.
How Earth’s plastic pollution problem could look by 2040
Plastic flows to the world’s waterbodies could double over the next two decades.
Polluted, drained, and drying out: new warnings on New Zealand’s rivers and lakes
A new report on New Zealand’s lakes and rivers confirms that many freshwater ecosystems are in decline and warns that climate change will exacerbate existing threats.
Metal pollution is leaving scallops helpless against crabs and lobsters
New research points to ‘heavy metals’ having unseen effects on a much larger scale than previously thought.
Fish passes can reconnect species with habitats blocked by dams – here’s how they work
Migratory fish populations have collapsed worldwide in the last 50 years.
Niger Delta: young men face exclusion and violence in one of the most polluted places on Earth
Chronic pollution has robbed many young Nigerians of a stable future in the place where they grew up.
Our Big Microplastic Survey is helping people do something about plastic pollution
Volunteers from all over the world are taking part in a citizen science project to help scientists work out how bad microplastic pollution really is.
Environment Agency staff cuts risk economy and reputation
In the days after typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, David Cameron said that such extreme weather demanded that we take steps to prevent and mitigate against climate change. These are encouraging…
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