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Wildfire smoke significantly raises ozone pollution, even in remote regions #environment

Wildfire smoke significantly raises ozone pollution, even in remote regions
Wildfires release vast amounts of visible pollutants into the atmosphere that darken skies and push people indoors to avoid unhealthy air. But a near-invisible threat to public health associated with wildfires is ozone, the reactive oxygen molecule O3 that harms the lungs and other sensitive tissues in the human body.

"Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’"
#Plastic #Plastics #Pollution

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN #environment

Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN
Wildfires are releasing a "witches' brew" of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday.

Peloton ruft 833.000 Bike -Hometrainer zurück
Fitnessgerätehersteller Peloton muss in den USA und Kanada einen Hometrainer zurückrufen. In mehreren Fällen war die Sattelstütze gebrochen.
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Cities can clean up air and cut climate pollution at the same time, as shown by satellite data. Restricting fossil fuel use leads to decreased pollution levels. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Satellites demonstrate that cities can clean up the air and cut climate pollution at the same time
New data on pollution trends from 13,000 cities shows that slashing fossil fuels helps both our health and climate.

Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/05/low-income-areas-england-wales-worst-air-pollution

‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/italy-museum-of-plastic-pollution-faded-items-beaches-ocean

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research #environment

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research
Two authors from ETH Zurich and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau have concluded that the rapid production and distribution of chemicals in the environment means that regulatory risk assessment can no longer keep pace with their ever-increasing numbers.