The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Narrowboats’ old diesel engines and solid-fuel stoves pose a risk to people’s health, mayor warns

The River Wandle in south London has been affected by thousands of litres of oil leaking into the environment

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have impacted the sea

Malabar wastewater plant discharges 5.4bn to 120bn microplastic particles each day, CSIRO report says, prompting calls for more advanced treatment processes

Exposure to air pollution is associated with around seven million premature deaths per year across the world. When we think of urban air pollution, diesel exhaust emissions are often portrayed as a key culprit – rightly so, given previous research findings. However, our latest research shows that dust from brake…

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

The High Court in London commenced a hearing to address allegations that the oil company Shell has polluted vast areas of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, particularly in regions traditionally claimed by the Ogoni people.

Managers of a chemical plant accused of knowingly contaminating the water of hundreds of thousands of people are on trial in Italy, in one of Europe's biggest environmental disaster lawsuits.

Most of the world's population is exposed to polluted air and or those living in cities with chronically bad air, the smog might feel inescapable