Nature, Published online: 23 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03314-4 Burning crop waste causes devastating pollution in South Asia. When local administrators have appropriate incentives to control burning, incidents go down — a finding
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The AWI’s citizen science project ‘Microplastic Detectives’ has analyzed 2.2 tons of sand from German coasts for microplastics.
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