Tag: polluted
Montreal is suffocating in smoke and breathing the most polluted air in the world
Sad news for Montreal. Acrid smoke covered Sunday the second city of Canada with a veil due to the forest fires still active in the country. Montreal is the city…
“Post-It” maker 3M has to pay billions in fines for polluted drinking water
Status: 06/23/2023 2:40 p.m The conglomerate 3M, known for its “Post-It” notes, has to pay a fine of 12.5 billion dollars in the United States. It is about so-called eternity…
Crime: Scene of the crime in a residential building – dealing with polluted real estate
Scary and sometimes not for sale – houses and apartments in which deadly acts of violence took place often remind us of the crimes for a long time. There are…
Repack your eggs from domestic hens, the region is too polluted
Dioxins, furans and PCBs: the Ile-de-France territory is impregnated with pollutants, and not only around waste incinerators, reveal the first results of a study by the Regional Health Agency (ARS).…
Red areas show where Bavaria’s groundwater is polluted with nitrate – Bavaria
It was a bitter argument. But the EU Commission left no doubt that Germany, and thus also Bavaria, must do a lot more to protect the groundwater from contamination from…
In municipal swimming pools, sick lifeguards denounce polluted air
“I had symptoms – headaches, nausea – and I had them at work. And when I left my job I had these symptoms for a few more hours when I…
Polluted air: 240,000 deaths in the EU due to particulate matter
Status: 11/24/2022 03:58 am Air quality in the EU has improved. Nevertheless, according to an official estimate, around 240,000 people died prematurely in 2020 from fine dust pollution in the…
A fine of 500,000 euros claimed from a sugar refinery, suspected of having polluted the Scheldt
Tereos is implicated in the pollution of the Scheldt and the death of hundreds of tonnes of fish in 2020. During the trial being held in Lille, the prosecution demanded,…
The Tereos sugar factory in court, suspected of having polluted a river as far as Belgium
Floods, river pollution, disappearance of fish…. In April 2020, the rupture of a dike of a settling basin in a sugar factory in Escaudoeuvres, in the North, caused extensive water…
Study: Israeli coast polluted with two tons of microplastics
study Israeli coast polluted with two tons of microplastics According to a study, the Israeli coast is polluted with more than two tons of microplastics. photo © Oded Ballilty/AP/dpa Scientists…