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There’s a deeper problem hiding beneath global warming | Aeon Essays

Even if we ‘solve’ global warming, we face an older, slower problem. Waste heat could radically alter Earth’s future

Fukushima Nuclear Plant to Start Releasing Treated Radioactive Wastewater Into Pacific Ocean

The release of treated but still radioactive water could start as early as Thursday, despite opposition at home and abroad.

South Koreans rally in Seoul against Japanese plans to release treated nuclear wastewater into sea

Anxious about Japan’s impending release of treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, hundreds of South Koreans marched in their capital Saturday.

Fukushima Radioactive Water Release Is Set To Begin| Countercurrents

Much to the aggravation of concerned environmental activists, the Japanese government has approved the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) plan to begin

No Fish Left Behind

For hundreds of years, Icelanders have relied on the ocean for survival. This is perhaps not surprising as it’s an isolated island surrounded by ocean near the Arctic circle. But as the ocean…

By Engraving Found Plastic Waste, Duke Riley Links Extractive Practices Throughout Human History — Colossal

In the 1860s, the U.S. government introduced kerosene as an alternative for lighting lamps. Whale oil had previously dominated the market but was unsustainable given the appalling number of animals killed in order to provide power. The country...

See the World's Unsold Clothing in a Huge Desert Pileup

A satellite image shows where tons of fast-fashion items are heaped in a clothing graveyard in the Atacama Desert.

Wasteland - Europe’s plastic disaster

Europe has a problem with plastics. Cheap, versatile and in constant production, plastic is in our milk bottles and toothpaste tubes – and our seas, fields and streams. Can EU plans for a circular economy tackle this mounting waste crisis?

There’s Cash In Them Old Solar Panels

The first solar panels may have rolled out of Bell Labs in the 1950s, with major press around their inconsistent and patchy adoption in the decades that followed, but despite the fanfare they were …

Brazil sinks aircraft carrier in Atlantic despite pollution risk

Critics of Brazil’s planned sinking of the Sao Paulo described it as a ‘state-sponsored environmental crime’.