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KW40RY hong kong traffic jam

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Hong Kong’s car pollution sensors help it clean its air in world first

Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide pollution have fallen sharply in Hong Kong since it introduced a world-first scheme to detect and repair vehicles with the highest emissions

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The Evenlode is a 75 kilometre-long river in the Cotswolds, England, plagued with water pollution in recent years. Aerial view of the Evenlode.

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How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England's waterways

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2BNF11C Garbage at the Ant Flat Landfill in Wallowa County, Oregon.

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Pollution is the forgotten global crisis and we need to tackle it now

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Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea), feeding on Greater knapweed flower (Centaurea scabiosa), Wiltshire, England

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Air pollution makes it harder for pollinators to find plants

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NEW DELHI, INDIA - NOVEMBER 4: A view of Vikas Marg ITO traffic junction on the first day of the Odd-Even traffic regulation scheme on November 4, 2019 in New Delhi, India. The third edition of the odd-even road space rationing drive saw fewer prosecutions on Monday compared to the first day of the previous arrangement in April, 2016. The Odd-Even scheme will be in force until November 15. It entails private vehicles with registration numbers ending with odd digits to be allowed on odd dates and those with even digits on even dates.(Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)

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One in 12 new cases of asthma in children linked to NO2 air pollution

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Extreme air pollution from US wildfires now affects millions of people

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2EXXD38 March 3, 2021: The Brazilian Ministry of Health, with support from the Armed Forces, applies vaccines to indigenous people in the village of Iuarete, municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the state of Amazonas, on Wednesday (3).The action immunized, against Covid19, about 350 indigenous people in the villages of Taracua Igarape and Santo Atanasio, which are in areas of difficult access in the Amazon Forest, on the border between Brazil and Colombia. Credit: Paulo Lopes/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

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Indigenous groups threatened by gold exploration in remote Amazon

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Northern pike / (Esox lucius)

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Freshwater fish can recover from mercury pollution in just a few years

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Cars in a traffic jam surrounded by steam from their exhaust pipes

Health

Thousands of lives being saved as US moves to less-polluting vehicles

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Plastic food packaging gets a bad rap, but does it always deserve it?

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Plastic food packaging gets a bad rap, but does it always deserve it?

When you look at the research evidence, it soon becomes clear that calls to ban all plastic wrap on fresh fruit and veg could do more harm than good

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How do humans affect the nitrogen cycle?

Environment

Cutting ammonia emissions may be the best way to reduce air pollution

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Air pollution from G20 consumers caused two million deaths in 2010

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Ships could clean up the ocean by turning marine plastic into fuel

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