All posts in Pollution
Mopping up oil spills has got a bit easier
Australian researchers say they have found a way of cleaning up spills before they can destroy ecosystems.
A brewery creates edible can holders to save sea creatures
Here comes the answer to a particular bane of sea-dwelling creatures: edible drink holders that they can consume.
Microplastics have ended up in our table salt
You may be consuming microplastics just by putting salt in your food. Disturbing? You bet.
We’ve been polluting our air for millennia
Even in medieval times Europeans were causing widespread lead pollution in the air because of large-scale mining of metals and smelting of ores.
Air pollution can make us a bit dimmer. Seriously
Air pollution affects us all in one way or another. Many of us living in teeming metropolises end up facing the prospects of developing a variety of health conditions as a result of our long-term exposure to polluted air. Air
Seeking to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste
There’s a lot of plastic trash in the world’s oceans – that we have long known. Turns out, though, that there is even more of it than we’ve thought. That is according to a Dutch foundation, which is planning a