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Life

Fish eat bits of plastic because they think they smell good

Hungry fish are gulping down mouthfuls of plastic, perhaps because it smells like their favourite foods

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Turtle-headed sea snake

Earth

Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution

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A young girl drinking water from a tap

Technology

How to strip 99 per cent of harmful BPA from water in 30 minutes

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electric car charging station

Health

UK ban on polluting cars by 2040 is just a cynical smokescreen

Analysis

plastic bottles

Earth

Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling

Features

Drone

Technology

Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle

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Melting tundra

Earth

Uninhabitable Earth? In fact, it’s really hard to fry the planet

Analysis

France plans to ban all new petrol and diesel cars by 2040

Earth

France plans to ban all new petrol and diesel cars by 2040

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Animation showing ozone-harming chemicals moving from low to high latitudes

Earth

Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks

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Health

Don't forget the lessons of deadly lead

Politicians who say environmental regulations are an unnecessary burden are ignorant of history and contemptuous of future generations

Leader

Earth

UK government to be taken back to court again over air pollution

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Earth

Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics

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Earth

Unshackled, big auto will keep choking the world on diesel fumes

Comment

Earth

Remote Pacific island found buried under tonnes of plastic waste

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