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Environment

Engineered bacteria could break down unrecyclable nylon in clothes

Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the plastic could improve recycling

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Environment

Is cleaner air accelerating global warming more than we expected?

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Setting fire to a million acres of California could cut smoke by half

Environment

Setting fire to a million acres of California could cut smoke by half

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Environment

Lead pollution across the Roman Empire would have caused IQ deficits

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Environment

Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent greenhouse gas emissions

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Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

Health

Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

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Technology

Energy-hungry AI is already harming health – and it's getting worse

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Environment

What will it take to solve our planet's plastic pollution crisis?

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2AFX2PH aerial view of Allerton Waste Recovery Park, on the A1(M) near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK

Environment

Putting food waste in the bin felt wrong until I learned where it went

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Health

Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema

Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has strengthened the association

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Environment

A fifth of the world's plastic garbage is either burned or littered

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Chemistry

Quantum dots help destroy ‘forever chemicals’ with light

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Health

Little-studied pollutant from planes threatens the health of millions

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Environment

Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution

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