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The world’s biggest garbage patch is growing. How can we clean it up?

sudshr47 September 21, 2018

The ocean is full of trash.

Whether it’s on the coast, near the coast, in the open ocean, or on the seafloor, evidence of humanity’s impact on the environment is widespread and abundant.

Each year, 160 billion pounds of trash is dumped into the oceans. And then it gets trapped.

These plastics are continuously swept up into rotating currents into what scientists call convergent or accumulation zones where they settle into gyres or “garbage patches” and wreak havoc on ecosystems in every ocean in the world — sometimes in multiple places. Read more…

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Google Street View cars will be roaming around the planet to check our air quality with these sensors

sudshr47 September 12, 2018 Startups

Aclima, a San Francisco-based startup building Internet-connected air quality sensors has announced plans to integrate its mobile sensing platform into Google’s global fleet of Street View vehicles. Google uses the Street View cars to map the land for Google Maps. Starting with 50 cars in Houston, Mexico City and Sydney, Aclima will capture air quality […]

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Massive waves of garbage wash ashore in Philippines

sudshr47 August 16, 2018

Literal garbage crashed ashore in the Philippines capital’s waterfront as a result of heavy rain and flooding from over the weekendOcean Conservancy reports that China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam dump more plastic into the sea than…

China Noaa Ozone Layer Pollution Science

The rogue emitters of an ozone-killing chemical have been exposed. How can they be stopped?

sudshr47 July 9, 2018

A crooked industry in China has been releasing ozone-depleting chemicals into Earth’s atmosphere for years. Now, many of the culprits have been exposed.

CFC-11, an illegal chemical used to make foam insulation used in homes and buildings, has been banned globally for decades. But scientists spotted an uptick in the chemical’s abundance in the air since 2012, meaning its overall decline has slowed. Researchers concluded in May that there must be a new source of these pollutants.

Exactly who was annually spewing some 14,000 thousand tons of a chemical that erodes the ozone layer — which keeps life on Earth from getting irradiated by the sun — wasn’t known. Read more…

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Uber is in court to appeal London license loss by claiming it’s changed

sudshr47 June 25, 2018

Uber is in court in the UK today to try to overturn a decision by London’s transport regulator last fall to withdraw its license to operate in the city — where it claims to have some 3.5 million regular users. Its appeal is being heard in Westminster Magistrates Court from today, with the hearing expected […]

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Google StreetView cars to help map pollution in London

sudshr47 June 21, 2018

From next month two Google StreetView cars will be driving around London’s streets fitted with sensors that take air quality readings every 30 meters to map and monitor air quality in the UK capital. There will also be 100 fixed sensors fitted to lampposts and buildings in pollution blackspots and sensitive locations in the city […]

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Lyft offsets carbon emissions, but still relies on gas-guzzling cars

sudshr47 April 21, 2018

In an announcement not-so-subtly timed to Earth Day, Lyft proclaimed its ride service is now carbon neutral.

In the fight against climate change Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green explained this week that the San Francisco company was purchasing carbon offsets, making Lyft “one of the top voluntary purchasers of carbon offsets in the world.”

Instead of eliminating emissions from its vehicles, Lyft is participating in a program funding projects that reduce carbon emissionsCarbon Footprint, which works with businesses to manage their environmental impact, describes carbon offsetting as “a way to reduce the emissions that you can’t.” Read more…

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Plastic straws, cotton buds, and drinks stirrers could be banned in the UK

sudshr47 April 19, 2018

The UK government has announced plans to ban the sale of plastic straws, drink stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds in an effort to cut down on single-use plastics waste.
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Philippines temporarily closes popular holiday island to tourists due to pollution

sudshr47 April 5, 2018

One of Philippines’ most popular tourist destinations will be off-limits to visitors in a few weeks.
The entire island of Boracay will be closed to visitors from Apr. 26, so that it can receive a massive clean-up of dumped sewage and upgrades to its …

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains up to 16 times more plastic than we thought

sudshr47 March 22, 2018

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than twice the size of Texas, actually contains between 4 and 16 times the mass of plastic that scientists previously estimated. And the amount of plastic …

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Dyson’s new Pure Cool fans are better at both purifying and communicating

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

Dyson has a few new products it’s revealing today, including the latest Pure Cool line of purifying fans. These fans have built-in air purifying technology, which can detect and weed out pollutants, particulate matter and more of the nasty stuff we sometimes breathe in that we probably should not be breathing in. The new fans have a new built-in LCD display that actually shows you a graph… Read More

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Dyson’s Cyclone V10 cordless vacuum spells the end for corded cleaning

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

The Dyson Cyclone V10 cord-free vacuum that Dyson unveiled today at an event in New York is a new milestone for the company’s strong line of battery-powered vacuums. In fact, it spells the end for plug-in models, even for holdouts who’ve been reluctant to ditch their big bulky continuous power versions. Dyson’s Cyclone V10 has Dyson’s most advanced digital motor yet. In… Read More