The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Mapping project reveals standards for ‘forever chemicals’ will not be met until 2063 in many areas

More than 11,000 Australians are dying prematurely each year from vehicle pollution, according to a new study that calls for more cuts to car emissions.

New modelling finds that pollution from traffic in Australia leads to a suspected 11,000 deaths per year — 10 times more than the national road toll.

Conclusions from long-term survey in Sweden come days after 10th anniversary of Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in London

Flights to and from Amsterdam's Schiphol will be limited to 460,000 in the year through September 2024, the airport said, calling it a temporary solution for the government-proposed cap of 440,000 to cut noise pollution and for environmental reasons.

Toxic wastewater used to extinguish a fire following a train derailment in Ohio is headed to a Houston suburb for disposal

UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how they will reduce sewage discharges into rivers. They could start by coming clean on how much sewage is being dumped. If we don’t know how much sewage is actually being released – for at least the…

The Mayor of London wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to provide financial support for people in locations such as Surrey and Kent.

The current upper limit of £250,000 was considered "not a significant enough deterrent"

Major mapping project reveals PFAS have been found at high levels at thousands of sites

Far more tiny particles now come from tyres than are emitted from exhausts but new tyre designs may help