Julia Conley: ‘Horrifying’: Researchers Find Microplastics in Lungs of Living People
There were 12 different types of microplastics found in the tissue, and male patients had higher levels of the material in their lung tissue.
Joan E. Bauer: W. Eugene Smith in Minamata, Japan 1971
Smith frames: Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath
The mother cradles Tomoko, her misshapen daughter.
Light through a dark window.
A post-modern pietà.
Video: Birds of the Mississippi Delta
John Fitzpatrick, Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, takes us on a bird-tour of the Mississippi River Delta. The Louisiana wetlands that they call home are fast disappearing.
George Monbiot: The Gift of Death
Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Smoke and Mirrors
Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption. In London, the latest figures suggest that it now kills more people than smoking. … Continue reading
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