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Plan to allow swimming in the heavily polluted Harlem River won’t prevent 2 billion gallons of sewage from being released there, according to activists.

Plan to allow swimming in the heavily polluted Harlem River won't prevent 2 billion gallons of sewage from being released there, according to activists.

Harlem River Swimming Proposal Faces Backlash Activists in the Bronx are expressing frustration over a proposal to open the notoriously polluted Harlem River for swimming, arguing that it does little to address the issue of raw sewage being dumped into the water. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the goal is to improve water quality […]

Delayed Projects, Polluted Groundwater: Kabul’s Water Situation Deteriorates

Bibi Yang often sets aside some of her husband’s meager daily earnings to purchase water from tankers that arrive in rickshaws, serving residents in Kabul, Afghanistan’s increasingly parched capital. The city is grappling with a potential water crisis, spurred by rapid and often chaotic urban growth, years of conflict, and the impacts of climate change, […]

About a sixth of global cropland likely polluted with toxic metals: Study

Up to 17% of the planet’s farmland can be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, new research finds. As many as 1.4 billion people live in areas where compounds such as arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel and lead are at risk in soils. Science. A team of multinational researchers led by Deyi Hou from Tinshua […]

Swimmers drinking Coca-Cola after competing in polluted Seine River

Olympic swimmers may have found a cure to combat the E. coli contamination of the Seine, one of the biggest talking points of the 2024 Paris Olympics: Coca-Cola cans. Several world-class athletes swear that the sugary soda helps ward off germs and infections they may pick up while competing in the open ocean. “There’s no […]

California home to America’s most polluted national parks: report

Four California parks have been named the most polluted in the nation in a new environmental study. Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park are the most polluted parks based on unhealthy levels of haze pollution, as well as frequent threats of drought and wildfires, according to a National Park Conservation Association (NPCA) report. […]