pollution

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Cirino, now the communications manager for the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an environmental nonprofit, has more company now than when she began building her home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Pollution from U.S. power plants rose last year, a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Pollution has ravaged once-abundant stocks of fish and crab.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

Pollution from the traffic, factories, and construction is all severe; the benefits of all of these things are also extraordinary in a country that was ravaged by war just a few decades ago.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Political constitution of the Fijians, 407 Pollution, ceremonial, of gravediggers, 327 Polynesian blood, infusion of, in New Guinea, 291 —— race, 406 Polytheism and monotheism, 11 Polytheism discarded, 20 sq.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir