Hacker News with Generative AI: Environmental Pollution

Salmon Exposed to Anti-Anxiety Medication Pollution Take More Risks (smithsonianmag.com)
Humans take a lot of medication, and small doses of those drugs—including antibiotics, antidepressants, birth control and more—find their way in the environment through wastewater, even after it’s treated.
Plastic recycling: A panacea or environmental pollution problem (nature.com)
Increasing plastic waste is a critical global challenge to ecological and human health requiring focused solutions to reduce omnipresent plastic pollution in the environment.
Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant (propublica.org)
In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one that causes far more cancer than any other, one that is so widespread that nobody in the United States is safe from it.
SpaceX repeatedly polluted waters in Texas this year, regulators found (cnbc.com)
Electric Vehicle Batteries Surprising New Source of 'Forever Chemical' Pollution (businessinsider.com)