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Next time you’re thinking of flushing your Prozac down the drain, maybe don’t.
At least ActionSA is causing k*k in the right direction – at those in charge, not in the ocean.
The 1.7 million people who live there are forced to endure the perilous onslaught of some of the planet’s most hazardous pollution, thanks in large part to a heavy veil of smoke that cloaks Africa’s biggest steel mill.
“Elon already got so much shit for picking a fight with this kid, she should really not expect this to go super well PR-wise.”
All over the world, hermit crabs, who are naturally supposed to scavenge shells as armour for their bodies, are turning increasingly to plastic waste instead.
Instagram is littered with pictures of revellers setting up camp as they dig in for a few days of fun and chaos. But it hardly ever features the aftermath.
As the IQAir live city pollution ranking was released on Friday, Joburg came in at 26th (out of 100) cities on the worst air quality ranking, with an AQI of 72.
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has conducted several water tests along the Gauteng waterways in the past month, confirming that seven rivers now carry the potentially deadly disease.
Mountaineers have left the Himalayas in absolute shambles, with a few peaks turned into gigantic rubbish dumps.
This legacy of bad quality has turned into a humanitarian crisis, and it could become significantly worse if the government doesn’t get off its fat ass and fix things.
But not only does it make pretty places unbearably stinky, it also supposedly causes frequent bouts of ‘the tummy bug’ to go around, and those are not fun at all.
Quite a few beaches have been closed across the city over the past few months due to sewage spills, but the issue seems to be more prevalent than we think.
Hartbeespoort Dam is now nearly 50% covered by invasive water Hyacinth.
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A recently published study confirms that there is a link between air pollution and a decline in cognitive ability.
The ocean surrounding Cape Town is so polluted that chemicals are now accumulating in the flesh of fish.
Chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita was horrified by the combs, bottle tops, and other plastics that he recently found inside a fish.
Turns out there are a lot of chemicals accumulating on Cape Town’s coasts, and it’s affecting the local marine life.
Air pollution has been dubbed “the new tobacco”, and wind conditions carry the polluted air west to Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Capetonians are throwing all sorts of questionable junk down into their sewers, causing a huge amount of blockages and overflows.
After an image of a green substance flowing from the City’s stormwater system did the rounds, people wanted answers. The City of Cape Town has responded.
Plastic pollution is wreaking havoc here at home, so it’s good to see that Woolworths are stepping up to the plate.
Plastic pollution has claimed another victim – a whale that had been feeding in a canal in Thailand. The contents of its stomach are sickening.
We’re used to seeing ‘rain stopped play’ and ‘bad light stopped play’, but over in New Delhi the rising pollution levels caused the Sri Lankan players some serious discomfort.
After the hurricanes that ravaged islands across the Caribbean, a blanket of rubbish was left floating in the sea. The images are downright depressing.
A tiny Swiss village has now landed on the tourist map, but locals are condemning visitors for not respecting the area and its beauty.
People laugh about the fact that you can buy bottled water and now, thanks to excessive smog, you can buy bottled air. It’s selling too.
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China’s smog is still around and it’s only getting worse with children even being allowed to stay at home from school.