The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, officials with the country's environmental agency say

The Illinois attorney general’s office filed an amended complaint to a 2018 lawsuit accusing the hotel owners of continuing to skirt rules about water discharge into the Chicago River.

Toxic substances pollute the Boeing and government-owned site and are probably contaminating nearby river used to water crops

In a significant development, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) initiated action against the Baramati Agro Limited, situated in Baramati and owned by Karjat-Jamkhed MLA Rohit Pawar, grandnephew of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar. The board served a notice to Mr. Rohit Pawar, at 2 a.m. on Thursday,…

Japanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.

It kills 7 million people a year. New research shows it also raises antibiotic resistance and is linked to cancer risks

Clean Air Fund says despite increased spending on air pollution, projects still receive less than 1% of funding

Polluted air during a weekend city break increases stroke risk by up to 60%, warns study

BIJNOR: In an effort to combat the annual menace of stubble burning during the harvest season and its devastating impact on air quality and the environment, the Uttar Pradesh agriculture department is distributing waste decomposers to paddy crop growers.

A Japanese court has ordered the central government, the Kumamoto prefecture and a chemical company to recognize more than 120 plaintiffs as patients of the decades-old Minamata mercury poisoning and pay compensation they have been denied because they developed symptoms after moving away from the region

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