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Topic: Pollution (page 2)

Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

How bad are humans trashing the Moon?

Matthew Rozsa
A mechanic works on a battery module of an electric car, at the Revolte e-garage specialized in the electric car repairs, in Carquefou, western France, on November 30, 2022. (LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

How to make EV battery repair safer

Maddie Stone - Grist
An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), also known as a Mexican salamander or a Mexican walking fish. (Arno Burgi/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Mexico urges folks to adopt axolotls

Rae Hodge
Kitchen filled with smoke (Getty Images/Ignatiev)

When indoor air becomes deadly

Ana Clara Faria
A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant November 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Coal still kills thousands, study finds

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about countering the flow of fentanyl into the United States, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House November 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden is gaslighting us on natural gas

Caleb Heeringa, Roishetta Ozane
Car Park (Getty Images/Jason Hawkes)

Less parking may help the climate

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos (L) tells a joke with Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (R) at the Office XP launch, 31 May, 2001, in New York. (STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

12 billionaires are polluting the Earth

Matthew Rozsa
A scavenger looks for plastic bottles at Jabon landfill on April 22, 2021 in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)

Poor countries harmed most by plastic

Joseph Winters - Grist
Water dripping from a faucet (Getty Images/Stock Depot)

"Forever chemicals" in tap water

Matthew Rozsa
A gull picks up a piece of trash that washed up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach on Tuesday morning, December 13, 2022. (Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Democrats unveil plan for plastics

Joseph Winters - Grist
The Colorado Rockies groundskeeper carefully guides the riding mower in the outfield at Coors Field before the game agains the New York Mets June 21, 2018. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Why lawncare is bad for the environment

Tik Root - Grist
The Washington Works DuPont plant in Parkersburg, WV on October 28, 2015. (Maddie McGarvey/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Industry knew about the perils of PFAS

Tracey J. Woodruff, Nadia Gaber - Undark
Pile of Worn Out Tires (Getty Images/Mint Images)

EVs have a tire-shredding problem

Paul Krantz - Grist
Indigenous people react as they watch a broadcast of the 'Temporal Framework' trial on a screen installed in front of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in Brasilia, Brazil on September 21, 2023. (Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Brazil Court upholds Indigenous rights

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Underwater Kelp Forrest (Getty Images/Douglas Klug)

Can seaweed clean up the Gulf of Mexico?

Matthew Rozsa
A Bosch heat pump that has just been installed and a workman's case can be seen in front of a semi-detached house. (Doreen Garud/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Install more energy-saving heat pumps

Katie Myers - Grist
Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Matthew Rozsa
Volunteers are seen collecting waste and plastic during the cleaning of San Andrés Beach ahead of World Environment Day on June 5th. (Jesus Merida/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is "plastic neutral" greenwashing?

Joseph Winters - Grist
Scuba diver with a large school of batfish and a green sea turtle. (Getty Images/Georgette Douwma)

Turtle shells tainted by radioactivity

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
Protesters hold a banner which states "Make polluters pay" during the demonstration in Parliament Square. Thousands of people marched through Westminster in protest against the destruction of nature, biodiversity loss and climate change on Earth Day. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rich "super emitters" pollute the worst

Matthew Rozsa
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Toxins from Maui fires pose health risk

Andrew J. Whelton - The Conversation
(Getty/agnormark)

Coal plant closure win for public health

Katie Myers - Grist
(Getty/Justin Sullivan)

EPA approves highly toxic fuel additive

Sharon Lerner - ProPublica
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