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Emily Duncan releases a bottle

Environment

Plastic bottles dumped in rivers can travel thousands of kilometres

Tracking the movements of plastic bottles released along the Ganges river shows they can travel as far as 3000 kilometres in less than 100 days.

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Rubbish left on Mount Everest. Photo taken in 1993

Environment

Microplastic pollution discovered near the top of Mount Everest

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Sperm whales

Environment

Most whales and sea turtles seem to have plastic in their bodies

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smog over Las Vegas

Health

Air pollution linked to greater risk of dying from covid-19 in the US

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Air pollution

Environment

China's cuts to air pollution may have saved 150,000 lives each year

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A building under construction on a polluted day in Shenyang, Liaoning province

Environment

Air pollution in China may have caused millions of deaths since 2000

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washing machine drum

Environment

Washing our clothes has created 5.6 million tonnes of microfibre waste

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city road

Environment

Asphalt on roads may soon be greater source of air pollution than cars

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Blue jeans pollute water by releasing 50,000 microfibres per wash

Environment

Blue jeans pollute water by releasing 50,000 microfibres per wash

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How many house plants do you need to clean the air in a small flat?

Humans

How many house plants do you need to clean the air in a small flat?

There are lots of claims that house plants filter the air, but it turns out you need an awful lot of them to beat just opening the window, finds James Wong

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Earth

Lake Victoria is at risk of dying from pollution and climate change

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Environment

UK nitrogen dioxide pollution levels hit 10-year low during lockdown

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Environment

There might not be as many microplastic fibres in oceans as we feared

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Environment

We may have missed half the microplastics in the ocean

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