Pollutants are chemicals and substances that are harmful to our health or the natural environment, causing damage to the land, air or water. Outdoor air pollution in urban areas tends to be caused ...

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raising concern that micro-plastics pollution has already “deeply” entered the world's most remote land-based food systems. While the infiltration of micro plastics throughout the oceans is ...

The main source of ocean plastic pollution is land-based—80% of plastic in the ocean originates on land. But what does that really mean? Where is it coming from? There are three main ways plastic ends ...

Chicago’s air quality worsened, ranking 15th for smog and 19th for particle pollution nationally, according to the American ...

Up to 1.4 billion people worldwide are affected by toxic heavy metal pollution and 17 per cent of arable land is contaminated, according to the study led by Hou Deyi, a professor at the School of ...