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Excess deaths due to pollution have led to economic losses totaling $4.6 trillion in 2019, equating to 6.2% of global economic output, the researchers reported. The study also notes pollution’s deep ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

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In mid-December 2020, a month before he left office, President Donald Trump quietly signed the Save Our Seas Act to put the ...

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When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

assuming we can find a method to achieve it that doesn’t also increase acid rain and similar negative effects from pollution. Featured image: Time series of global temperature anomaly since 1980.

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