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The Clean Air Zone began this week, charging high-polluting vehicles to enter into Newcastle

PM2.5 dust levels above the safe limit of 50 microgrammes per cubic metre were reported in 53 provinces across the country, including Bangkok and its suburbs, on Wednesday morning.

The Biden administration banned the dumping of mining waste near Bristol Bay, Alaska, issuing a decree that thwarts longstanding plans to extract gold, copper and molybdenum because of potential harm to the region’s thriving sockeye salmon industry.

The Government has been criticised for allowing “killer pollution” to contaminate playgrounds by not being ambitious enough with air quality targets.

The presenter lives in one of the most polluted boroughs in the capital

Take a walk or drive through the streets of most Nigerian cities, and you will see plastic waste everywhere. The country’s rivers, lakes and ocean are also full of discarded plastic. Nigeria is estimated to generate about 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. Plastic accounts for 15% of the…

Report finds ‘relatively small group’ of rich people contribute disproportionately to emissions

The worst-polluting buses, coaches, taxis, and HGVs are now subject to daily tolls of up to £50 to drive into or through Newcastle city centre

Monday marked the start of the new Clean Air Zone tolls, but some councillors worry that the measures will make their areas a new pollution hotspot