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The Rain CII Lake Charles Calcining Plant in Sulphur, as seen from Google Earth on Feb. 12, 2025. The plant is one of two ...

President Donald Trump has declared the last straw. Or at least the paper ones used by federal agencies. In an executive ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

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The waters of the winding South Fork of the St. Lucie River have the attention of those who visit Halpatiokee Regional Park.

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The Minister-Designate for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, has assured that, if approved by Parliament, he will ensure greater involvement of women in ...

BANGKOK: The Thai government has ordered a crackdown on farmers flouting a ban on crop burning, as pollution in Bangkok spiked on Friday a week after toxic air forced hundreds of schools to close.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...