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Daily air quality forecasts could save millions of lives, say scientis

Vincent-Henri Peuch, the head of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said the idea was to make information on air pollution levels “as daily, as mundane as a weather forecast”.

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British woman set to travel the length of Hudson River on paddle board

A British woman has decided to travel the length of the Hudson River in the US on a paddle board to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Lizzie Carr will paddle for more than a week consecutively to cover the 275 km (170 miles) long journey.

China

Air pollution can damage our intelligence, study finds

Exposure to air pollution may impede cognitive ability as people become older, with less-educated men the worst affected, a new study has found.

Hungary

Zoo dumps plastic waste in aquarium to highlight ocean pollution problem

Yoghurt pots, plastic bags, fishing nets and flippers are just some of the pieces of rubbish staff at Pecs Zoo have dumped in their tank, which is normally home to thriving schools of fish and other marine animals.

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Italy

Plastic bottle raft helps highlight marine pollution problem in Italy

This is the Italian who made a raft out of plastic bottles to highlight the problem of marine waste in our seas.

France

French ozone levels set to spike in the heat

French authorities are taking measures to reduce pollution levels amid concerns that ozone levels will spike, adding chronic heart and lung disease to the list of health risks brought about by the heatwave.

Chile

Easter Island restricts tourists visits

The island's mayor, Petro Edmunds has reduced the number of days from 90 to 30 because, he says, foreigners are "damaging the local idiosyncrasy"

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Earth Overshoot Day is the earliest in almost half a century

The day marks when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what our planet can renew in that year. This year, it falls on Aug. 1 - one day earlier than in 2017, which fell on Aug. 2, and the earliest since our planet went into "overshoot" in 1970, which fell on Dec. 29.

Belgium

Five tonnes of plastic waste from the sea is transformed into a whale

Five tons of plastic waste has been pulled from seawater and transformed into the Bruges Whale, a gigantic sculpture that highlights the staggering amount of waste floating in our oceans.

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From bass to soprano, artist leads whale choir for UK exhibition

An exhibition about whales has been providing visitors in northern England with a somewhat different insight into the huge mammals with a choir of volunteers mimicking the sounds the species makes.

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Man back-flips to safety from a highway sign, gets arrested

A man in California standing up on a freeway sign this morning back-flipped his way to safety — and then he was arrested.

Greece

"Waste to wear" project makes clothes out of discarded fishing nets

The Healthy Seas project is trying to protect fish from getting trapped in plastic nets

Belgium

Leadership looks like... cleaning up the oceans by 2040

Boyan Slat went diving in Greece aged 16 and saw more plastic bags than fish. Instead of wringing his hands he went on to set up a not-for-profit that aims to rid the oceans of 90% of their plastic by 2040. And he is well on his way to achieving this.

Japan

French swimmer begins Pacific Ocean crossing to fight ‘plastic smog’

Benoit Lecomte aims to swim from Japan to California while researching the effects of plastic pollution clogging the Pacific.

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Greenpeace: Single-use plastic has to stop

Greenpeace tells Euronews single-use plastic is to blame for ocean pollution. "We're going to reach a point soon when there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish."

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Brief from Brussels: Plastic is not fantastic

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As it happened this morning: Monday 28 May

On today's edition: what next as Italy navigates another political pitfall; the abortion debate in Ireland and the UK; and the diplomatic ups and downs between the US and North Korea.

New Zealand

Fighting the spread of microplastics

Sailors competing in the Volvo round-the-world yacht race have been collecting water samples as part of a program to measure the spread of microplastics.

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Plastic pollution 10,000 metres under the sea

Scientists have compiled evidence of plastic debris on the sea bed in the deepest and most remote parts of the world’s oceans.

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We've found the world's deepest plastic bag, say scientists

Details of the discovery have been published in a marine journal as part of a 30-year study into deep-sea plastic pollution.