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pollution

DW
After yearslong cleaning efforts, what’s it like to swim in the Seine?
5:36
Environment
Ghanaian initiative turns plastic waste into school desks
6:49
Environment
Chemical stench, green in color: Urban runoff is not just rain, Tijuana community says
11:41
Arts, Culture & Media
Forgive Me Father
Arts, Culture & Media
Canaries in the Coal Smoke
coal ash pollution
Science
In a Kentucky lake, fish tell the story of long-term coal ash pollution
CA wildfire
Health
After wildfires, health risks linger
A woman recycles plastic bags from a river near the Dondora dumpsite close to the slum of Korogocho in the capital Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, 2015
Environment
Where using plastic bags can land you a $38,000 fine
Israeli Settlements Push Ahead, The Next Step in Cyberdeterrence, The Loss of George Michael
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A boy collects plastic from a garbage-covered river in Manila, 2010.
Global Politics
Plastic trash is a big problem. How much do you throw away? (QUIZ)
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.
Environment
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Sioux Nation, leads his people to peacefully pray near a law enforcement barricade just outside of a Dakota Access pipeline construction site north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on Oct. 29, 2016.
Conflict
#NoDAPL has momentum, but will it drive Native Americans to vote?
Energy Transfer Partners Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation
Education
Education and funding are critical issues facing native communities in the US
Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Justice
Protesters say mass arrests won’t stop their fight against a North Dakota oil pipeline
Standing Rock
Culture
The Standing Rock Sioux ‘know what they’re doing’ in North Dakota
Muonio Town Center
Environment
Here’s where to find some of the cleanest air in the world
India's air pollution
Environment
She loved to run. In India, she couldn’t. It was unhealthy.
Grand Canyon haze
Environment
Fighting the haze at the Grand Canyon
Buildings shrouded in smog in Mexico City
Environment
Mexico City residents are forced to cope with bad air
Water faucet lead?
Environment
An investigation has found lead in 2,000 US water systems
Shell Can't swim sign
Environment
Shell Oil faces a lawsuit in the UK over oil spills in Nigeria
Marathon Oil Refinery in Detroit
Justice
Advocate says race is a dominant indicator of pollution — not just in Flint
Cup Island trash
Environment
Not many fish are left to bite in Rio’s trash-lined bay
Urban planners in Stockholm are transforming their city, prioritizing not for vehicles, but for people. Their vision is called "The Walkable City."
Environment
Sweden’s capital is on its way to becoming fossil fuel free by 2040
A "Water Pickup" sign points to a bottled water distribution center in Flint, Michigan in January. In an effort to save money, state officials running Flint's affairs implemented changes to the city's water system that resulted in widespread lead contamin
Environment
This is your brain on lead, and lots of other nasty pollutants
Homer City plant
Environment
US coal plants are preparing to comply with new EPA rules
Aliso Canyon
Environment
The massive gas leak in Los Angeles shows no signs of ending
More than 30,000 people traveled to the UN's COP21 climate summit in Paris last month from aroudn the world. The UN set up a website where attendees could offset the carbon footprint of their travel.
Environment
People who traveled to the Paris climate summit can offset their carbon emissions — but it isn’t easy
Pollution in China
Environment
Air pollution in the developing world is killing millions every year
Rocky Dawuni
Environment
This musician’s quest is for clean cookstoves
Pandas in pollution
Environment
Coal is at the root of both climate woes and record pollution levels in Beijing
Baby being weighed
Environment
Is there a connection between in utero chemical exposure and obesity?
China power plant in Xinjiang
Environment
Kicking China’s coal habit — and helping to save the planet?
Emich Volkswagen is a family owned Volkswagen dealership in Denver, Colorado.
Business
The VW scandal as seen from an American dealer’s point of view
Demonstrators protest against Royal Dutch Shell near the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig on May 16, 2015, in Seattle.
Environment
$7 billion later, a dry well sends Shell home from the Arctic
Empty beehives
Environment
The EPA broke the law when it approved a new pesticide
A Volkswagen 2016 Touareg TDI is seen at a VW dealership.
Environment
Volkswagen didn’t engineer a fix to its dirty diesel fumes: It faked out regulators
Health
Is biking in the city bad for your health? Researchers want to find out.
Wakulla Springs
Environment
Florida’s natural springs are changing — and disappearing
Alaskan salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska
Environment
Will Canada’s new mines hurt Alaska’s salmon?
Algae bloom
Environment
This blue-green water may look stunning, but it’s also seriously bad news
A tree on fire is seen as wildfires blaze near the Paranoa neighborhood in Brasilia July 29, 2015. Drought, high temperatures and low humidity in areas have caused wildfires to start in several places in Brasilia, according to officials.
Environment
Climate change is fueling a spike in wildfires across the Americas
Kelp forest
Environment
How a determined marine biologist and volunteers saved a giant kelp forest off California’s coast
Coal fired power plant in Wyoming
Environment
The SCOTUS ruling on mercury emissions stops years of momentum
Lake Hermitage’s marsh creation project
Environment
The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana’s wetlands
axolotls
Environment
This endangered salamander can regrow limbs — or even parts of its brain
Coal power plant
Environment
World leaders announce goal of fossil fuel freedom by 2100 at UN Climate Change conference
A bee approaches a peach blossom. Many of the more than 20,000 species of bee worldwide, including the well-known honey bee, are threatened by disease, habitat loss, and pesticides. President Obama's national pollinator plan would provide incentives for r
Environment
From the White House to Minnesota gardens, an effort to make more room for pollinators
New EPA legislation will require that school buses shut down their engines after 5 minutes of idling. Some newer buses automatically turn off after a few minutes of idling.
Environment
School bus pollution is dangerous, and efforts to control it are still uneven
A mock-up of an atomic waste barrel is pictured at the entrance of the annual meeting of German utility giant E.ON in Essen on May 3, 2012.
Environment
‘It’s worse than any site I’ve been to:’ radioactivity and a Missouri neighborhood
The container ship MSC Tomoko Panama in the Santa Barbara Channel in 2009. Ships like these pose deadly threats of pollution and collision to blue whales in the area.
Environment
How do you save the whales? Slow down the ships
An orca whale breaching off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Environment
Noisy waters are bad news for the orcas of the Pacific Northwest
Under the new federal fracking rules, wastewater must be managed onsite and in closed tanks, not in the open pits seen here.
Environment
Fracking is about to change, and almost no one is happy about it
Margie Richard stands in what used to be her front yard, across the street from Shell's chemical plant in Norco, Louisiana. Richard pushed for the company to buy out the neighborhood and move residents.
Environment
How one woman fought one of the world’s biggest oil companies — and won
Blue green algae
Environment
Toxic algae is on the rise. Now scientists want to know if it’s connected to Alzheimer’s.
Birds fly across the sky on a polluted day in Wuhan, Hubei province, on February 16, 2015.
Culture
Where’s the perch? These birds might be flying for longer than they expected
PA gas pipeline
Environment
A proposed Ohio gas pipeline is raising safety and property rights concerns for landowners in Ohio
The Alberta Tar Sands in Canada. The Keystone Pipeline, which is designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast has become a huge political issue. President Obama has said he will veto recent Congressional legislation approving the pipeline
Environment
Even with a GOP Congress, here’s how a lame-duck Obama can help the environment
Britain's National Gallerly sells its soul to the villainous "Man from Shell" is this recent guerilla theater presentation by the activist group Art Not Oil. Fossil fuel industry support of cultural institutions has become increasingly controversial in th
Environment
For these activists, oil and art just don’t mix
China highlands
Environment
A new book documents China’s exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources