Pollution levels highly harmful to wildlife in quarter of England’s neighbourhoods, research finds

Some of the parliamentary constituencies with the highest levels of pollution were in London, with Vauxhall and Camberwell Green and Chelsea and Fulham among the worst. Photograph: Alexey_Fedoren/Getty Images/iStockphoto

More than a quarter of neighbourhoods in England have pollution levels that are highly harmful to wildlife, new data shows.

Friends of the Earth has named 27.5% of areas “nature pollution hotspots” in new research. These are defined as places where air, water, noise and light pollution all exceed levels that are damaging to nature.