The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

Thousands of campaigners across the country joined forces for the cause

The environment ranks low in polls of the public’s fears, while sickness ranks top. Yet we will all get more ill as the planet heats

The environmental agency wants Sims Metal Management to monitor for metals and other harmful contaminants released in the air.

By 2025, Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to have a “robust outdoor air quality monitoring network” and also is pushing for a big emissions cut by 2040.

The city recorded the highest concentration of nitrogen across the continent last month, though the analysis has been questioned by civic centre officials

A fuel tanker that sank in waters off Tunisia last weekend was empty, the government said on Friday, ruling out the risk of pollution. But authorities announced they had arrested the ship's rescued crew after divers found evidence the ship's GPS had been deliberately destroyed and its bridge computers ripped…

In recent years there have been hundreds of ‘spillage’ sites in Nottinghamshire

Mother Earth punishing humanity for the evils of pollution and deforestation was a potent nightmare for novelists and filmmakers long before global warming was well understood

Research ‘supersites’ in UK cities reveal pollutant sources, from agriculture and traffic to wood fires

Southern bench of the apex environmental tribunal issues notices to 13 respondents

As bad as the environment seems with climate change and other pollution, scientists say humanity has also done a pretty good job of cleaning up past messes