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Manufactured since the 1940s to make products nonstick, stain-resistant and water-repellent, PFAS have been linked to human cancer, obesity, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, decreased fertility, liver damage, hormone disruption and immune system damage.
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Removing about 50,000 tons of peaches from production could reduce oversupply and save farmers an estimated $30 million in additional losses, the officials said. The growers can then pivot to another crop. #foodwaste
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Fast fashion is the modern trend that sees people buying more clothes but wearing them for less time. Clothes are not designed for longevity, and more than a million tons of them end up here each year to be repurposed.
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Over the past decade an increasing amount of research has shown that illuminating night skies is bad for a wide range of species, including insects, birds and amphibians ā disrupting their feeding, reproduction and navigation.
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All 20 of the worldās most polluted cities last year exceeded WHO PM2.5 guidelines by over 10 times.
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One explosion sends out fragments that smash into other objects, creating more detritus. The cascading effect continues until Earthās orbit is so clogged with junk that satellites become inoperable.
edition.cnn.com/2024/12/27/sā¦
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"Geomagnetic storms can impact infrastructure in near-Earth orbit and on Earth's surface, potentially disrupting communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations."
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"British American Tobacco is effectively telling investors that the U.S. cigarette market is not just in a steady decline, but that it will eventually go to zero."
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"Since 2020, more than 600,000 metric tons of plastic waste has been shipped from U.S. ports to countries around the world under the premise of 'recycling'."
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"The real fight was to make the UKās economy competitive with other countries that were investing heavily in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and other green technologies that were the focus of innovation and investment around the world."
theguardian.com/environment/ā¦
"Fossil fuel companies, pollution, and overfishing are destroying the gulfās delicate ecosystem and peopleās livelihoods."
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"[This] offers a unique opportunity to consider automatic referrals to tribunals in such cases and specifically whether the rules are appropriate where the context is peaceful protest."
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āWe have natural drain places that bring water directly to the aquifers and then inside our water stocks. When we pave, itās not there anymore.ā
cnbc.com/2024/04/21/dubai-flā¦
"The equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic" is dumped into the waters every single minute."
thecooldown.com/green-busineā¦
"We thought PFAS were going to go into the ocean and would disappear, but they cycle around and come back to land, and this could continue for a long time into the future."
theguardian.com/environment/ā¦
"Some coastal areas in China have already built physical protection from the growing risk of inundation, and the study does not take those protections into account."
edition.cnn.com/2024/04/18/cā¦
"Greece could become the world's first country to suffer 'population collapse'. Heart failure, stroke, blood clots, and cancer among otherwise healthy young people have caused mortality rates to skyrocket.
ndtv.com/world-news/greece-fā¦
"The area was part of a very dense and large settlement from the later period in which Stonehenge was built. Artifacts will be removed and dumped somewhere else within the rebuilt highway. It's misleading for archaeologists who might dig in the future."
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