In November 2024, Delhi earned the dubious title of the “World’s Most Polluted City”. And it had company. Of the world’s ten most polluted cities in 2024, eight were in India. This, despite decades-long governmental efforts to clean up its atmosphere.
“It’s a ticking time bomb. I am extremely concerned that people may begin to perish because of this,” says Paloma Aguirre, mayor of Imperial Beach. San Diego County has declared a state of emergency over the Tijuana River sewage crisis. Unhealthy conditions are driving tourists and businesses away from Imperial Beach, a coastal city located at the southernmost tip of San Diego County, right on the U.S.–Mexico border. Once renowned for its world-class surfing and as the home of the Ironman triathlon, the city now faces significant environmental challenges.
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Have you ever wondered what really happens to your recyclables? In this video, Patrick Bet-David explains the disturbing truth about recycling and the impact it has on our environment in this eye-opening video. From contaminated materials to improper disposal, learn why recycling may not be as effective as we think.
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Explore the hidden world of air pollution, from its impact on health to its global reach. Discover the shocking consequences affecting ecosystems, economies, and human lives. Don’t miss this eye-opening journey into a pressing health crisis that demands our attention.
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Pollution is killing tens of thousands of people every day around the world and is a major killer everywhere, even places we think of as safe. It causes respiratory diseases, can change how our DNA functions, and may cause dementia. How unsafe is the pollution we can’t see? Explore this and other questions about the most precious resource we have–air.
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Reggie heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest e-waste dumps in the world – Accra’s notorious Agbogbloshie. Working with a group of “burner boys”, grafting at the bottom of the ladder, Reggie discovers first-hand what life is like for the people who eek out a living on the site. Dumping e-waste is illegal and the chemicals in the soil in Agbogbloshie mean it has been described as “the most toxic place on earth”. But can we really be complicit in creating it?
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Local authorities who sampled local water quality found arsenic concentrations above hazardous waste limit
The California company that produces Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring bottled water pleaded guilty to illegally dumping water that contained arsenic. Parent company CG Roxane LLC and two contracted firms were previously charged in 2018 with failing to disclose information relating to the presence of arsenic in wastewater that was being transported from the bottling plant in Olancha, California.
A court case last week led to the firm agreeing to a $5 million fine for the transportation and storing of hazardous waste, federal prosecutors said.
According to authorities, the waste was created by the filtration of arsenic from Sierra Nevada spring water at CG Roxane LLC’S facility in Owens Valley.
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The dark side of the world’s fashion addiction. Many of our old clothes, donated to charities, end up in rotting textile mountains in West Africa. This is a story about how our waste is creating an environmental disaster.
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China is literally dumping on the Philippines ‘ territorial claims, and it’s created a stink. Not just a figurative one, but literally. China has dumped so much sewage into the ocean that it can be seen from space!
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