water pollution

Japan’s plan to release nuclear wastewater from its Fukushima reactor has sparked many questions.

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There’s a lot to learn about the health effects of microplastics, but as humans consume more of it there is intensifying urgency to uncover the full picture.

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Japan plans to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, but its effects on Pacific nations are not clear.

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As the world faces a growing food crisis, scientists are investigating how we can waste less of it.

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For producers of microplastic ‘nurdle’ pellets, the price of packaging is often more than the cost of letting it spill into the ocean.

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The environmental impacts of the tobacco industry, and its attempts to divert attention from them, are only beginning to be realised.

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The waste tobacco products create is an increasingly recognised environmental hazard. Environmental laws might be used to tackle it.

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Mounting marine pollution is choking the world’s oceans and rivers, especially in Southeast Asia — and it’ll only get worse unless something changes.

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Deep seabed mining risks irreversible damage, monopolisation and exploitation.

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Seabed mining can affect fisheries and the flow-on social equity issues need to be addressed.

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