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Why the Philippines generates so much plastic waste
Of small sachets known as “labo” bags a whopping 16.5 billion are used each year across the country.
UN: It wasn’t all bad news last year for the environment
Despite the challenges ahead, more meaningful action is being taken worldwide to protect the natural environment.
50 years on, Agent Orange is still wreaking havoc in Vietnam
The dioxin TCDD can linger in the environment for decades or even centuries.
Coal takes its toll differently on rich and poor
More than half of the health effects come from one tenth of the power plants.
Even in the oceans’ depths animals are feeding on plastic waste
In the Challenger Deep, every single animal examined by researchers had plastic in its gut.
Pervouralsk’s green snow makes visible its toxic legacy
What’s “glowing in the dark” in a Russian town is sickly chemical green snow.