Tag: plastic pollution
Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study...
Experts say that policymakers do not currently account for the impact plastics currently have on climate change and that the issue is flying under the radar.
Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030,...
"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."
Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere,...
We highlight just how widespread microplastic pollution is and the potential it has to influence climate on a global scale.
Plastic, plastic everywhere – airborne microplastics are settling into the most...
Compared with microplastics in the marine and terrestrial environments, the phenomenon of airborne microplastics is even less well understood.
Coca-Cola biggest offender of all branded pollution on UK beaches, new...
"Serial offenders including Coca-Cola—which tops the leader board year on year as the worst offender—are still not taking responsibility."
Widespread plastic pollution harming young turtles
“Relatively few young marine turtles survive their first year, so it is imperative that we reduce threats to ensure the long-term survival of these extraordinary species.”
From pollution to performance wear: Fair-trade clothes made from 100% ocean...
“My motto is: there’s already so much plastic out there, why are we making more? There’s so much we can be pulling from. It’s already a resource; we just have to get it.”
New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics over the next 4...
“Phasing out unnecessary and problematic plastics will help reduce waste to landfill, improve our recycling system and encourage reusable or environmentally responsible alternatives.”
44% of ocean plastics are linked to takeout food
Researchers are turning their attention to takeout containers and convenience food as the worst offender in plastics polluting the ocean.
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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”
Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter
Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.
When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.
Nuke power equals Trump profits
Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.