In today's big story, BI uncovered Meta's secret "block lists" — and it turns out the practice may be far more widespread than many job seekers realize. What's on deck Markets: A Wall Street ...

Experts say block lists are legal but raise ethical concerns, as employees often have no way to appeal the decision. For companies, block lists help reduce risk of suboptimal rehires amid turnover ...

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Experts suggest that the actual levels of air pollution may be even higher, as many regions lack the necessary monitoring needed to provide more accurate data. But how exactly does air pollution ...

According to the ranking in IQAir's 2024 World Air Quality Report, these are the 10 U.S. cities with the worst pollution in North America: While eight of the most polluted U.S. cities in North ...

The only city outside of Asia featured on the list is N’Djamena, the capital of Chad in central Africa – which was named the country with the worst air pollution. Meanwhile the cities with the ...

Because it does not break down easily, PET is a major contributor to plastic pollution. After use, it either ends up in landfills or, over time, degrades into tiny microplastics or nanoplastics ...

Air India has confirmed that one of its flights from the US was forced to turn around last week after passengers trying to flush away plastic bags, rags and clothes clogged up most of its toilets.

The air was so laden with pollution from coal power plants and ... Roads are often littered with plastic waste that gets broken down by cars and kicked up into the air. Those particles are ...

“It’s really scary,” says Marcus Eriksen, a marine scientist at the 5 Gyres Institute, a nonprofit plastic pollution research organization, who was not involved in the study. The researchers ...

How to stop plastic pollution: three strategies that actually work Yet, previous research suggests that particles bigger than 1 µm are probably too large to pass through the lung’s air–blood ...

The opportunity for such action is at hand via the UN Global Plastic Treaty which is under negotiation. Ensuring the treaty addresses microplastic pollution is of key importance. “This study gives ...