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Scientists to scour African waters to gauge ocean pollution

Scientists began a five-month mission to study how plastic pollution in Africa's main rivers and climate change stresses are impacting microorganisms in the Atlantic Ocean. The survey is being staged from the 33-year-old Tara research schooner which arrived in South Africa's Cape Town ahead of...

Air pollution killed 1.8 million people globally in 2019

A new study has found out that 86% of people living in cities in the world are exposed to fine particulate matter. Citizens are exposed to particle matter at levels that exceed the World Health Organization's 2005 guidelines. The urban air pollution caused 1.8 million deaths...

Scientists estimated deaths globally from air pollution in 2019

Scientists have published a research paper in The Lancet Planetary Health and highlighted the scale of potentially life-threatening air pollution in urban areas. The research team has said that approximately 86% of people living in urban areas in the world are exposed to unhealthy particulate...

Microplastics are widespread in soils of tropical areas

Plastic particles less than 5 mm in size is referred as microplastics. These microplastics are causing environmental risks. The fundamental resources of the global food security system soil is also affected by it. But the distribution characteristics of MPs remain largely unknown. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical...