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‘Noisome stinking scum’: how Londoners protested river pollution in the 1600s

‘Noisome stinking scum’: how Londoners protested river pollution in the 1600s: London imagined from above by artist Claes Jansz. Visscher, in 1616. wiki The UK government and water companies have recently been heavily criticised for allowing raw sewage and other pollutants to spill into the nation’s waterways. While a recent flurry of stories and reports …

Earth’s ‘boring billion’ years of stagnant, stinking oceans might actually have been rather dynamic

Earth’s ‘boring billion’ years of stagnant, stinking oceans might actually have been rather dynamic: Vladi333 / shutterstock Geologists have dubbed Earth’s middle age the “boring billion”. Occurring some 1,800 to 800 million years ago, it has long been considered a period when little happened on Earth in terms of biological evolution, climate, or the chemistry …