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UCSB researcher shows microplastic transfers chemicals, impacting healthSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2013 With global production of plastic exceeding 280 metric tons every year, a fair amount of the stuff is bound to make its way to the natural environment. However, until now researchers haven't known whether ingested plastic transfers chemical additives or pollutants to wildlife. A new study conducted by UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) shows that toxic concentrations of pollutants and additives enter the tissue of animals that have eaten microplastic. ... read more |
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 Earth's crust beneath oceans could store centuries' output of CO2 Coastal sea change Scripps Leads First Global Snapshot of Key Coral Reef Fishes Rainfall to blame for decline in Arctic peregrines Silent stalkers of dark ocean waters Sea-level rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in hurricane activity | .. |
 Street sweepers' strike hampers Madrid tourism A street-sweepers strike in Madrid has left streets strewn with paper, broken glass and other litter, dealing a blow to the Spanish capital's image when it is already suffering a tourist slump. ... more | .. |
 Protests grow in Albania against Syria weapons destruction Several hundred people protested on Thursday in the capital Tirana and number of other towns across Albania against the possible destruction of Syrian chemical weaponry on its soil as requested by Washington. ... more | .. |
 Litter piles up in Madrid as strike goes on Carton, plastic bottles and other litter piled up in the streets of Madrid on Monday as an open-ended strike by street-sweepers against layoffs and pay cuts entered the seventh day. ... more | .. |
 Tehran schools ordered shut over air pollution: report Air pollution has forced Iranian authorities to close elementary schools and kindergartens in Tehran province for three days from Sunday, the state broadcaster said. ... more |
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 Thousands protest 'toxic' gold mine in Greece More than 5,000 people took to the streets of Greece's second-largest city on Saturday, police said, to protest against a controversial gold mine that has frayed relations in a northern village. ... more | .. |
 200 million people at risk from toxic pollution: environmentalists Hundreds of millions of people worldwide risk exposure to toxic pollution, environmental groups warned Monday, publishing a list of the world's worst areas, including an African processing site for European electronics. ... more | .. |
 Girl, 8, is China's youngest lung cancer case An eight-year-old girl has become China's youngest lung cancer patient, reports said, with doctors blaming pollution as the direct cause of her illness. ... more | .. |
 China climate negotiator laments 'severe' pollution China's top negotiator at international climate talks said on Tuesday that air pollution in his own country - the world's biggest carbon emitter - is harming its citizens. ... more |
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 Gold mining ravages Peru For the first time, researchers have been able to map the true extent of gold mining in the biologically diverse region of Madre De Dios in the Peruvian Amazon. The team combined field surveys with ... more | .. |
 UCSB researcher documents the enduring contaminant legacy of the California gold rush An unintended legacy of California's gold rush, which began in 1848, endures today in the form of mercury-laden sediment. New research by Michael Singer, associate researcher at UC Santa Barbara's E ... more | .. |
 New low-cost, nondestructive technology cuts risk from mercury hot spots Hot spots of mercury pollution in aquatic sediments and soils can contaminate local food webs and threaten ecosystems, but cleaning them up can be expensive and destructive. Researchers from the Smi ... more | .. |
Pollution debated in Canada's oil fields U.S. scientists said areas near Canada's oil and gas production zones are heavily polluted and residents suffer elevated levels of different cancers. ... more |
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 Mustard gas traces found close to Poland's Baltic Sea coast Mustard gas contamination in the Baltic Sea is closer to the Polish coast than originally thought, within just a few hundred feet, researchers say. ... more | .. |
China to begin inspection plan for air pollution China will launch an air pollution inspection program, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said. ... more | .. |
 Illinois river otters exposed to chemicals banned decades ago Researchers report that river otters in Central Illinois are being exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and pesticides that were banned in the U.S. in the 1970s and '80s. Their analysis ... more | .. |
 Air Pollution Sources And Atmosphere-Warming Particles In South Asia When Rajan Chakrabarty, Ph.D., an assistant research professor at the Desert Research Institute, began looking into the regional inventories of human-produced sources of carbon aerosol pollution in ... more |
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 Mysteries of Earth's radiation belts uncovered by NASA twin spacecraft Arianespace's role as a partner for the US satellite industry Astronomers find strange planet orbiting where there shouldn't be one Odds of alien life 'very high,' House panel hears Controllers prepare for spacecraft's rendezvous with protoplanet Ceres Industry Associations Seek to Change the Global Conversation About Satellite | .. |
Dangerous pollution levels blight Chinese city Thick smog enveloped a major Chinese city for a third day Tuesday, with schools and a regional airport shut and poor visibility forcing ground transport to a halt in places. ... more | .. |
Russian court brands Baikal protection group 'foreign agent' A Russian court has ordered an environmental group fighting for the protection of Lake Baikal to register as a "foreign agent" because it receives funding from abroad, Interfax reported Friday. ... more | .. |
'Toxic bomb' ticks on Maldives rubbish island Descending by plane into the Maldives offers a panoramic view of azure seas and coral-fringed islands, but as the tarmac nears, billowing smoke in the middle distance reveals an environmental calamity. ... more | .. |
 Outdoor air pollution a leading cause of cancer The World Health Organization on Thursday classified outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer in humans. ... more |
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 Pulp friction cleans up 'Brockovich' chemical A byproduct of the manufacture of pulp using the sulfite process for making paper, sodium lignosulfonate, can be used to immobilize and soak up toxic chromium compounds from soil and water, accordin ... more | .. |
 WHO launches drive against mercury thermometers The World Health Organization and campaigners launched a drive Friday to try to wipe out mercury in medical thermometers, a day after nations signed a UN treaty to control the toxic liquid metal. ... more | .. |
 Mongolia's 'eco-Nazis' target foreign miners A silver swastika hanging around his neck, Boldbaatar Gombodorj points out his targets on a map of Mongolia like a World War II commander: little flags representing foreign mining firms that he and fellow "eco-Nazis" accuse of destroying their country. ... more | .. |
 Minamata mercury treaty signed at UN conference Delegates from some 140 countries and territories Thursday signed a United Nations treaty to control mercury near the site of Japan's worst industrial poisoning, after Tokyo pledged $2 billion to help poorer nations combat pollution. ... more |
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