The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

For 140 years, gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa have been leaking wastewater contaminated with heavy metals. The acid mine drainage from Johannesburg’s estimated 278 abandoned mines and 200 mine dumps includes uranium (a radioactive metal), toxic arsenic, copper, cobalt, nickel, lead and zinc. Acid mine drainage can pollute land…

Nobody really knows how much plastic is in the world’s rivers or where it accumulates.

Wealthy states must cut emissions faster than their developing peers, court says, in major step for climate justice

Sewage overflows during wet seasons are just ‘half the problem, not the full problem’, says the chief medical officer

A U.N. tribunal on maritime law has found that countries are legally required to reduce greenhouse gas pollution

England’s chief medical officer says 19th-century wastewater system ended cholera outbreaks and calls for similar focus now

Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world

More than 216,000 fish died in 2022-2023, when England recorded a 54% increase in sewage spills

While air pollution continues to occupy a prominent place in the manifestos of India’s two biggest political parties, one of the biggest causes of climate change- coal, and the need for a justful transition away from it-remains missing from the manifestos of these parties.