LiveScience Topics: Pollution

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  Study: Plastics Decompose in Ocean

  Study finds plastics decompose in ocean, creating more pollution.

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  Scientists Sail to Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch

  Scientists ship out to study huge patch of plastic debris in middle of Pacific Ocean.

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  Smog Stresses Skin Cells

  Smog is nasty enough in the atmosphere, and now research suggests it damages human skin cells as well.

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  Cancer Kills Wild Animals Too

  Wild animals die of cancer at about the same rate that humans do, a new study finds.

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  Beijing Olympics' Air Pollution: Worse Than L.A.

  Air pollution at the Beijing Olympics last summer was bad on several counts, and the Chinese hid the extent of it, new research suggests.

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  Obama Announces New Fuel Efficiency Standards

  Plan would cut pollution and raise mileage standards.

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  Epigenetics: A Revolutionary Look at How Humans Work

  Scientists are pinpointing how life experiences — from toxin exposure to receiving affection — can alter genome expression.

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  Study: Biofuel Threatens Water Supplies

  Production of bioethanol uses up more water than previously though.

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  White House Sees 'Radical' Climate Ideas as Last Resort

  White House would look at shooting particles into the atmosphere to cool the climate.

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  Penguins in Peril, Research Shows

  Penguin populations at a wildlife reserve in Argentina have been declining due to overfishing, climate changes and pollution.

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  Future of the Ocean: Expanding Dead Zones

  As the ocean warms, areas of the ocean will become depleted in oxygen, threatening marine life.

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  Soot-stained Snow Melts Sooner

  Sooty snow enters warming, melting cycle that hastens spring snowmelt.

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  The Energy Debates: Clean Coal

  The Energy Debates is a LiveScience series about the pros, cons, policy debates, myths and facts related to various alternative energy ideas.

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  Mystery of the 5-Legged Freaks

  Oddly high rates of deformation among salamanders, frogs and other amphibians prove puzzling.

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  Pollution Makes Oceans Noisier

  Increasing carbon dioxide levels making oceans more acidic, noisier.

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  Earth's Air Divided by Chemical Equator

  Scientists find chemical equator in atmosphere separate from meteorological equator.

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  Plants Make Own Painkillers

  Plants manufacture own form of aspirin in times of stress.

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  One-Third of U.S. Schools in 'Air Pollution Danger Zone'

  One in three U.S. schools located in pollution zones of major roads.

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  Oceans Running Low on Oxygen

  Regions of ocean depleted in oxygen increasing, are key stressor to ecosystems.

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  The Stranglehold of Weather on Beijing's Air Quality

  Beijing's efforts to control air pollution help, but aren't main influence on pollution levels.

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  Milky Way: A Night Sky Wonder

  The new moon makes this a great time to check out the midsummer Milky Way.