pollution
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Why is lead poisoning still an issue in cities?
We know how to prevent lead exposure, but the toxic metal still lingers in many POC communities, as shown in a recent CDC study.
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Air pollution is making your brain age faster
Exposure to airborne toxins may up your odds of getting dementia, sooner.
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Would you rather swim in a river of ammonium or MDMA?
Fracking sites in Pennsylvania or rave rivers in Taiwan -- the choice is yours, river-dweller!
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Here’s all the plastic in the ocean, measured in whales
Sorry about that, sea life.
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This bike pumps out clean air while you ride it
The wheels turn a generator that runs an air filter. The clean air goes through a tube, into one of those fighter pilot masks that make the wearer look like an alien.
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Beautiful video asks: Why don’t we have more protection for our environmental rights?
Canada's squandering its reputation as a nice, progressive place to live by letting the oil industry mine oil sands.
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Farm runoff leads to a rise in eight-legged frogs
The mutations are the work of a parasite -- the flatworm Ribeiroia ondatrae.
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Tsunami of ‘chemical deodorant’ foam floods Chinese village
What would you think if you saw a giant wall of doom-bubbles advancing on you down the river? PANIC.
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The prettiest road spill you’ll ever see
Paint spilled all over the highway outside of Manaus, Brazil