A Lungful of Flying Lead
Children living near a small airport in Santa Clara County, California have been found to have concerning levels of the poisonous metal lead in their blood.
Pollution
Deep-sea Soot
Up to one a half million tonnes of carbon, soot, and other particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenches every year.
Breathing Plastic
In Auckland, 74 metric tonnes of microplastics are dropping out of the atmosphere onto the city every year, the equivalent of more than 3 million plastic bottles falling from the sky.
Shipwrecked Sediments
Eighty years after it sank, a World War 2 warship is still polluting the local ecosystem.
Washed into Dust
The Salton Sea, California’s most polluted inland lake, is turning into toxic dust caused by a decline in Colorado River flow.
Water Stress
Five years after the onset of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, there is a prevalence of depression and post traumatic stress disorder amongst its residents.
Smoke in the Mountains
Around 30 million people in Europe live in mountain valleys. A large part of this population is more affected by air pollution than previously assumed.
Rising Injustice
Global Warming is likely to lead to a huge increase in heat-induced labour loss, which will mainly impact those who work outdoors and for low wages. A tragic example of environmental injustice.
Artificial Rhythms
Artificial light in US cities affects the seasonal rhythms of plants, advancing the date of breaking leaf and delaying the colouring of leaves.
Dead Red Tides
Almost all bodies of water have some algae, but in a red tide, the water changes colour because the population of algae living in the water becomes so dense. Off the west coast of Florida, these red tides are also likely to cause dead zones of life by starving the water of oxygen.