Our round-up of the month’s most important stories.
Toxic pollution from war in west Asia will spread and last for decades
Acid rain, air pollution, oil spills and multiple countries falling back on dirty fuels are just some of the catastrophic health and environmental costs of the conflict – costs that will be borne long after the financial markets restabilise and the news cycle moves on.
Nestle goes on trial for illegal dumping of plastic bottles in French forests
Criminal prosecutors in the Vosges region allege the world’s largest bottled water company illegally polluted soils and water with discarded plastic from their plants for decades, exposing ecosystems and millions of residents to unprecedented and “immeasurable” microplastic contamination.
Could giving up plastic boost your chances of having a baby?
A new Netflix documentary, The Plastic Detox, follows six couples with unexplained infertility over six months as they lower their exposure to plastics: will it finally help them conceive?
Spoiler alert: Netflix has also published an article to share what happened after the cameras stopped rolling.
Deadly landslide at Jakarta’s main landfill buries seven people alive under trash
The second fatal waste disaster this year in Southeast Asia, at Bantar Gebang – Indonesia’s biggest landfill – triggers calls for system reform and better protections for waste pickers.
‘Climate gaslighting’ is the new greenwashing
A new report from Clean Creatives analysing over 1800 ads documents Big Oil’s shift from making green promises to framing fossil fuels as essential to society and quietly abandoning plans to a clean energy transition.
Adults consume 250g of microplastics every year: a public health time bomb
A new study published in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry claims adults ingest a dinner plate’s worth of microplastics annually and identifies five key biological pathways for the plastic particles to harm the brain and increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
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