Tekijä: Kirsi Seppänen

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Overworked, underpaid Brazil nurses risk lives to care for patients

Bossan works three jobs to provide for his wife and two-year-old daughter — at two different hospitals and a mobile emergency unit. Double and triple…

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Twitter aims to limit people sharing articles they have not read

Twitter is trying to stop people from sharing articles they have not read, in an experiment the company hopes will “promote informed discussion” on social…

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EU chemicals and waste laws must be harmonised, chemical recycling trade body says

European definitions for when recycled waste is considered a product again must be harmonised, because there is a “lack of alignment” between EU chemicals and…

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Cementos Cosmos to use waste tyres as alternative fuel

Cementos Cosmos has been granted an Integrated Environmental Authorisation, allowing the company’s Toral de los Vados plant to use waste tyres as an alternative fuel…

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Fresh wave of coronavirus food waste funding awarded

The first wave of funding under the government’s COVID-19 Emergency Surplus Food Grant has been confirmed today, with nearly 90 not-for-profit organisations across England set…

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Singapore is checking waste water with people’s poo for coronavirus

From mass testing tens of thousands of its migrant workers to using serological tests to uncover links between its virus clusters, Singapore has deployed varying…

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Unesco urged to declare Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’

Environmental law groups in the US and Australia are pushing Unesco to place the world heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef on an “in…

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Cannabis Water Report moves forward; will be published in late 2020

As cannabis and hemp regulation expands globally, its impact on water resources is relatively unknown. However, a partnership between Resource Innovation Institute (RII), the Berkeley…

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Small islands may not disappear under rising seas, researchers find

In recent years, the leaders and inhabitants of many small-island nations like Kiribati and Tuvalu have warned that climate change is an existential threat to…

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WWF: Major consumer goods giants only sourcing 8% recycled plastics

McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and Procter & Gamble (P&G) collectively source 4.3 million metric tonnes of plastic annually, of which just 8% comes…

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