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Our prettiest pollutant: just how bad are fireworks for the environment?
2016-07-02 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Raw Story: The bangs and fizzes of fireworks are rapidly replacing the chimes of Big Ben as the defining sound of New Year's Eve celebrations in London, while around the world, city landmarks are becoming stages for increasingly spectacular pyrotechnic displays. Since the millennium, the popularity of fireworks has even extended into back gardens, where smaller fireworks or sparklers are lit up at the stroke of midnight. Fireworks are great fun. We all enjoy guessing the colours of the rockets before they...
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