'Ferries emit "more sulphur pollution than cars" in several EU capitals'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#FossilPollution #AirPollution #sulphur
'Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
'... JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution'
#ClimateEmergency #coal #FossilPollution #PublicHealth #Trump #necropolitics
'Plastic nurdles have been found in 84% of important nature sites surveyed in the UK.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'Nurdles are tiny pellets that the plastics industry uses to make larger products.'
#NatureEmergency #FossilIndustry #FossilPollution #plastics #nurdles
Australia is not much better!
Barest minimum on action while continuing to approve 30+ more #FossilPollution projects!
And that's supposed to be our so-called progressive party, who abandoned most of it's progressive policies, having bought into #neoliberal #TrickleUp for 3 decades!
#auspol
This is the sort of shit they want to fast track in AU w/o environmental protections!
On the dryest continent they'll steal water & pay little for it, but drive up water costs for everyone else!
They'll also put pressure on energy sector forcing use of tons more #FossilPollution for much longer!
'Ingesting less than three sugar cubes worth of plastic is enough to kill a puffin, a new study has found.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#FossilPollution #plastic #birds #puffins #NatureEmergency
'"We feel we’re fighting a losing battle": the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#FossilPollution #plastic #shipping
UK: '"Environmental catastrophe" fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#NatureEmergency #FossilPollution #plastic
'Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘"could cause more deaths than jobs created"'
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
'Lawyers challenge €4bn ... development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated'
#FossilIndustry #plastic #FossilPollution #PublicHealth #necropolitics
'Breathing fumes from gas cooking in New Zealand created over 1,000 hospital admissions, 208 early deaths and over 3,000 new cases of childhood asthma each year, the study found'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#FossilPollution #GasCooking #GasStoves #PublicHealth
Plastic surgery... humans merging with their anorganic trail...
'The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'The particles are in our blood, brains and guts ...'
#FossilPollution #microplastics
'Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#FossilPollution #AirPollution #PublicHealth #ClimateEmergency
'Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts "more substantial than we realize"'
#FossilPollution #AirPollution #microplastics #PublicHealth
'The Netherlands is a hub in the international trade in plastic waste. Several entrepreneurs have already been convicted, but this type of environmental crime remains notoriously difficult to detect.'
www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...
#FossilPollution #plastic #waste
'... surging tourism [... could reach 450,000 by 2034] and expanding research bases are polluting the southern continent, accelerating snow melting and threatening fragile ecosystems already at risk from climate change.'
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
#ClimateEmergency #FossilPollution
"... if you looked at all of the studies going back to 1973 you see a 1% per year decline. But if you look at studies published after 2000, you see an over 2% [per year] decline."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
#FossilPollution #plastic #HormoneDisruption #Phthalates #bisphenols #necropolitics
'Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'... sea creatures eat them thinking they are eggs.'
#FossilPollution #plastic #NatureEmergency
'Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'Countries deadlocked on whether legally binding deal should include curbs on production and toxic chemicals'
#FossilPollution #OilIndustry #plastic #necropolitics
'Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'[T]he oil travelled through the soil into the nearest water bodies including rivers, lakes or the sea, killing useful fungi, bacteria, fish and other aquatic life.'
#FossilPollution
'More than 200 lobbyists at UN’s plastic treaty talks will limit progress, campaigners warn'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#PlasticTreaty #lobbies #cronyism #corruption #neoliberalism #deregulation #OutOfControlCapitalism #FossilPollution #microplastics
'World in $1.5tn "plastics crisis" hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'lastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal'
#FossilPollution #plastic #PublicHealth
'Only 0.5% of 90,000 oil slicks reported over five-year period, analysis finds'
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#FossilPollution #EnvironmentalCrimes #NatureEmergency #CapitalismKills
' #Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and ... [in] penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them?'
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
#FossilPollution
'Call to make wet wipe producers pay for polluting England’s waterways'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'... wet wipes ... shed microplastics and cause blockages ...'
#FossilPollution #microplastics
'Closing classroom windows does not stop air pollution, study finds'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'Tests conducted at 500 UK sites show particle pollution exceeded health guidelines on 6% of school days'
#FossilPollution #PublicHealth
'US rivers are full of dumped tires'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#FossilPollution #plastic #rubber #rivers #waste #dumping
'Killer in the nest: how young storks are being strangled by plastic'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#FossilPollution #PlasticWaste #NatureEmergency
'Recycled plastic can affect hormone systems'
www.gu.se/en/news/recy...
'A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals... [even] pesticides, pharmaceuticals and biocides.'
#FossilPollution #greenwashing
'Calls to clean up England’s "toxic air" as GP visits for asthma attacks rise 45%'
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#AirPollution #FossilPollution #PublicHealth #asthma
'Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateEmergency #FossilPollution #Ogoni #PublicHealth #Shell