The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Ynysddu residents fear toxic waste is 'spilling past village' near where children play

Villagers have spoken of their fears for after witnessing a mysterious liquid flowing downhill from a mine where a toxic chemical was dumped several decades ago

Daily Mirror · Jan 19, 2023

Time to ban disposable vapes clogging up streets as Record launches campaign

Record View says it is an issue that needs to be dealt with now.

Daily Record · Jan 19, 2023

Thailand’s tuk-tuks go green amid rising demand for electric models

Travel without the combustion-engine fumes and noise is increasingly popular in the country with some of the world’s worst air pollution

The Guardian - AU · Jan 19, 2023

Britain’s first zero emissions street could be reinstated permanently

‘Doing nothing is not an option’, chairman of the City’s streets committee says

Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023

Ulez expansion: We won’t put in your cameras, Harrow council tells London mayor Sadiq Khan

Mayor facing backlash against plans to expand Ulez across London in August

Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023

Plastic arts

In 2019, young artist Pratchaya Charernsook became aware of microplastic pollution after news reports of researchers at the Marine National Park Operation Centre finding an average of 78 pieces of microplastics in the stomach of every mackerel they collected from Hat Chao Mai National Park.

Bangkok Post · Jan 17, 2023

John Colley obituary

Other lives: Professor of public health medicine who helped to reveal the dangers of childhood exposure to atmospheric pollution

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023

Freshwater fish are significantly more contaminated with toxic forever chemicals than saltwater fish and shellfish, analysis shows

CHICAGO — Eating just one freshwater fish a year can dramatically increase the amount of toxic forever chemicals coursing through a person’s blood, according to a new study that reflects more than a half-century of pollution contaminating the Great Lakes and rivers nationwide.

Chicago Tribune · Jan 17, 2023

Sadiq Khan heaps pressure on ministers and MPs to back Ella’s Law to cut toxic air in London

Ella’s mother Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is due to speak to MPs in Parliament on Tuesday

Evening Standard · Jan 17, 2023

‘Motonormativity’: Britons more accepting of driving-related risk

Allowance made for dangers that would not be accepted in other parts of life, finds study with potentially major policy implications

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023