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Water pollution

Henderson Island        Video        G        29 July 2019

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?time_continue=57&v=ua4ZqbUGZC0

USA > water pollution        FR

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/250623/
saint-gobain-au-centre-d-un-scandale-sanitaire-aux-etats-unis

water pollution        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/03/
water-companies-polluting-rivers-beaches

UK’s waterways        UK

The UK is known for its national parks:

areas of outstanding natural beauty

with rolling hills and crystal-clear streams and lakes.

But research has shown

that England’s most protected rivers are full of pharmaceuticals.

In episode one of a two-part series,

biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay

about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways,

and how it could be contributing to what the World Health Organization

has described as ‘the silent pandemic’ – antimicrobial resistance.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/apr/08/
streams-of-medicines-whats-hiding-in-the-uks-waterways-
podcast

New York Times > Toxic Waters        USA

A series about the worsening pollution in American waters

and regulators' response

http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters

The inventory of pollutants at the bottom of the Passaic River,

which meanders for 90 miles through northern New Jersey,

is long and truly frightening.

More than a century of industrial activity

has deposited PCBs, pesticides and other contaminants

into sediment that, in some places, is 15 feet deep.

Among the worst of the poisons is dioxin,

generated in part by a plant in Newark

that produced Agent Orange

and other deadly pesticides during the 1960s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/
opinion/a-cleanup-plan-for-a-toxic-river.html

Murray Stein        USA        1917-2010

crusader against water pollution

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/science/earth/05stein.html

phosphates        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/science/earth/19clean.html

toxins        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/us/
lifting-ban-toledo-says-its-water-is-safe-to-drink-again.html

Find Water Polluters Near You        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/
toxic-waters/polluters/power-plants/index.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/
toxic-waters/polluters/index.html

UK > ocean pollution        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/19/
603936455/to-curb-ocean-pollution
-u-k-may-ban-plastic-straws-stirrers-and-cotton-swabs

plastics        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/
plastic

plastic pollution        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/
recycling-plastic-crisis-oceans-pollution-corporate-responsibility

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/25/
david-attenborough-on-the-scourge-of-the-oceans-
i-remember-being-told-plastic-doesnt-decay-its-wonderful

ocean plastic pollution in Scotland        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/jun/27/
ocean-plastic-pollution-scotland-in-pictures

plastic waste > South Pacific > Henderson Island        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/30/
henderson-island-the-pacific-paradise-groaning-under-18-tonnes-of-plastic-waste

More than 170tn plastic particles afloat in oceans,

say scientists        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/
plastic-particles-oceans-marine-pollution-production

plastic > the Great Pacific Garbage Patch        USA

one of five major garbage patches

drifting in the oceans

north and south of the Equator

at the latitude

of our great terrestrial deserts

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/
opinion/choking-the-oceans-with-plastic.html

The Pacific's plastic shame        UK        3 November 2009

A vast plastic terra incognita,

composed of the detritus of our civilisation,

has formed an area the size of Texas

in the Pacific Ocean.

And feeding on this submerged stratum

of bottle caps and beer-can loops

is one of the most beautiful birds

in creation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/nov/03/
albatross-plastic-poison-pacific

plastic > coral reefs        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/12/
1187261701/plastic-is-suffocating-coral-reefs-and-its-not-just-bottles-and-bags

microplastics > deep ocean

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/06/
729419975/microplastics-have-invaded-the-deep-ocean-and-the-food-chain

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