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Car-free streets reduce noise and air pollution. More cities should have them

Every summer, cities around the world host car-free days and temporarily pedestrianize streets. Following their success elsewhere in the world, temporary pedestrianized streets are becoming more common in North America, such as for large sporting events, cultural festivals and farmers’ markets.

The Conversation

Toronto Faces World's Worst Air Quality As Wildfire Smoke Blankets City During Heatwave

Toronto experienced a dramatic air quality decline, becoming the world's most polluted city due to wildfire smoke. The crisis highlighted the growing threat of wildfires amid climate change.

International Business Times UK

Canada Wildfire Smoke Forecast: Heat Dome Traps Haze, Degrading Air Quality in NYC

Dense Canada wildfire smoke is shrouding cities from Minnesota to New York City, with air quality plunging into unhealthy and even hazardous territory as a heat dome traps pollution near the ground.

International Business Times UK

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Northern river pollution prompts diplomatic push

The opposition People's Party (PP) on Wednesday urged the government to lead efforts to tackle river pollution in northern Thailand, saying evidence suggests contamination may be linked to mining operations in Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

How to stay safe from the triple threat of wildfires, smoke and extreme heat

I woke up today seeing that my windows appeared to have an yellow/orange tint to them, signalling that wildfire smoke was upon my city and reminding us that climate-related hazards are increasingly becoming visible parts of our daily lives.

The Conversation

Phoenix Dust Storm Wasn't Just a Weather Event: What Haboobs Mean for Your Lungs, Heart, and Brain

A massive dust storm swept across Phoenix this week, bringing more than poor visibility. Health experts warn that haboobs can expose people to harmful particles that may affect the lungs, heart and even the brain.,

Medical Daily

The 10 best places in the UK to see the partial solar eclipse on Aug. 12

August 12 will see the deepest partial solar eclipse in the U.K. for many decades, hours before the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Here's where to go.

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A chemical plant dumped mercury upriver from Grassy Narrows in the 1960s, and 2017 tests found downstream levels 130 times higher, raising fears the water was still being poisoned

Industrial mercury dumped into the English-Wabigoon River poisoned Grassy Narrows First Nation. For decades, residents suffered neurological and cognitive health issues from contaminated fish. A recent report revealed mercury levels far higher downstream, suggesting ongoing contamination. This discovery challenges the idea that the pollution was only a past event. Environmental…

The Times of India

Switzerland built giant tunnels under the Alps to reduce truck traffic, but the project is now helping protect the country's mountains from climate threats

Switzerland moved freight from roads to underground rail for environmental protection. This policy began after voters approved the Alpine Initiative in 1994. Massive tunnels now allow trains to bypass fragile mountain passes efficiently. Roughly three-quarters of Alpine freight now travels by rail. This infrastructure shift reduces pollution and noise for…

The Times of India

China is building a city where 40,000 trees will grow across buildings to fight the pollution choking its urban skies

China has some of the most polluted cities on the planet, and for years the usual fixes, stricter emission rules, factory shutdowns, better public transport, have only chipped away at the problem. So Italian architect Stefano Boeri decided to try something far more radical, wrapping entire buildings and eventually entire…

The Times of India

High levels of microplastics found in heart attack survivors

Smoking might make it easier for plastic particles to enter bloodstream, study warns

The Independent UK

Ethanol small share of son's business, mileage loss due to blending is minor, Nitin Gadkari says

Minister Nitin Gadkari defended the ethanol blending programme against criticism. He stated his family's business involvement is minimal and not influential. Gadkari dismissed claims of vehicle engine damage from E20 fuel. He highlighted the programme's role in reducing pollution and oil imports. The minister also addressed highway construction quality concerns.

The Economic Times

Wildfires expose millions in the Midwest and Northeast US to dangerous smoke

Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is expected to engulf large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, exposing millions of people to dangerous air pollution

The Independent UK

Water pollution has long been a threat to the Great Barrier Reef – plans to fix it aren’t up to the task

When you think about threats to the Great Barrier Reef, coral bleaching due to climate change would likely be first.

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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates

The population of the communities surrounding the Colossus 2 site, which is in the center of a lawsuit involving unpermitted natural gas turbines and pollution, is predominantly black.

The Economic Times

Pollution from Elon Musk's unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities

Potential emissions from the turbines are far beyond the threshold that would require a federal permit, and would be released near predominantly Black communities already estimated to be suffering disproportionately high rates of lung disease, according to a Reuters analysis based on government data and information in the correspondence with…

The Conversation

Don’t change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams

Millions of people will take to the roads this holiday season, only to end up spending frustrating hours sitting in traffic jams. Congestion costs drivers time, fuel and patience – while also increasing pollution and placing huge pressure on transport networks.

The Economic Times

Railways rolls out reform push to speed up projects, boost freight

Indian Railways unveiled reforms to enhance project execution and freight operations. Stricter contractor rules and insurance measures aim to improve construction quality. Industries can now develop new freight wagon designs for operational needs. Containerized transport of fly ash and other goods will reduce pollution. Simplified rules and a new land…

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The Yamuna Is Sacred and Dying. What That Contradiction Reveals About Worship and Dharma

The river remembers what you called itYou have probably stood at a ghat and watched someone pour a plastic bag of marigolds into the water. You may have done it yourself. The flowers are an offering. The bag is not. But both go in, and the river takes them both,…

France 24

Ebola spreads to more provinces

In tonight's show, the Ebola outbreak spreads to two more provinces. A Sudanese court sentences paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and 15 others to death in absentia. Residents of the Niger Delta town of Billé take to the streets to demand government action over catastrophic pollution.

The Guardian - UK

First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery

Fishers on El Salvador’s largest lake are still looking for answers after the die-off, with no explanation provided by the government

The Independent UK

Cruise ship pollution could increase risk of viruses, study suggests

The organisation that runs Southampton’s port has disputed the findings

The Guardian - UK

‘Spermageddon’: is the world facing a male reproductive crisis?

Reports of falling sperm counts and testosterone levels have fuelled fears over chemicals, pollution and modern lifestyles. But how much do scientists agree on what is affecting male fertility?

Times Life

Indian Men's Scalp Health Crisis: Dandruff, Hairfall, and What Pollution Is Doing to Your Sebum

The Scalp Is an Organ, and Indian Men Are Ignoring ItA 2021 study published in the Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology found that androgenetic alopecia affects roughly 58% of Indian men by their mid-forties, a figure that has been climbing steadily across urban populations. But hairfall is the…

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WHO Issues Urgent Warning as Global Cancer Cases Could Nearly Double by 2050

Almost everyone knows someone whose life has been changed by cancer. It could be a parent, a friend, a neighbour, or even someone you've never met but admired. That's what makes the World Health Organization's latest warning feel so personal. According to new projections, the number of people diagnosed with…

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